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"Sonny's Blues" by James Baldwin is a short story about the past and present life of two brothers. Pain and sorrow is part of their life, and the world surrounding them is viewed very differently by the two brothers. Sonny and his brother learn to deal with their pain, suffering and desire for pr ....
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.... find a way to go on.
The two characters are described in the story when riding away in the cab taking sonny home, "…, it came to me that what we both were seeking through our separate cab windows was that part of ourselves which had been left behind". They both are desperate to find faded memories that are left behind of their childhood before the pain and misery came to their life. Once for a short while they were happy before the death of their parents, little Gracie, and use of drug ....
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