Sonny's Blues- Writing Prompts- Week 7
"Sonny's Blues" p.267, Q# 2, 3, 4
2.The narrator's attitude towards jazz is ambivalence. He doesn't care about it, he's not well versed in it, and it is pretty clear that initially- he doesn't even really know what it is. Or at least, what it is to his brother. He has an idea of it as a genre of music, but not really. However, by the end of the story, he understands it better. He understands the blues, and what it means to really feel the music, and I feel that he gains a respect and appreciation for it.
3.This is a harder question. Drugs and music are both present in the story. I don't feel they are related, though. The brother that plays music does drugs. A lot of people do drugs, it is not contingent on the fact that he also plays music. In the end, the music IS a drug. For Sonny, and really, for the narrator too. He gets a sense of what drugs are like, when he starts to understand music's core.
4. I am not too sure why the narrator accompanied Sonny to the club. It felt like a supportive thing to do. Not really that he was interested in the music, but he was interested in letting Sonny return to his passion. He was trying to be a good and supportive brother- so he accompanied him to the club. He had never heard Sonny play before, and that might be part of why he went- the curiosity about why Sonny played music. He hears EVERYTHING. All of Sonny's pain, passion, loneliness, his own pain and loss and grief. He really understands Sonny for the first time, and he understands music for the first time.
2.The narrator's attitude towards jazz is ambivalence. He doesn't care about it, he's not well versed in it, and it is pretty clear that initially- he doesn't even really know what it is. Or at least, what it is to his brother. He has an idea of it as a genre of music, but not really. However, by the end of the story, he understands it better. He understands the blues, and what it means to really feel the music, and I feel that he gains a respect and appreciation for it.
3.This is a harder question. Drugs and music are both present in the story. I don't feel they are related, though. The brother that plays music does drugs. A lot of people do drugs, it is not contingent on the fact that he also plays music. In the end, the music IS a drug. For Sonny, and really, for the narrator too. He gets a sense of what drugs are like, when he starts to understand music's core.
4. I am not too sure why the narrator accompanied Sonny to the club. It felt like a supportive thing to do. Not really that he was interested in the music, but he was interested in letting Sonny return to his passion. He was trying to be a good and supportive brother- so he accompanied him to the club. He had never heard Sonny play before, and that might be part of why he went- the curiosity about why Sonny played music. He hears EVERYTHING. All of Sonny's pain, passion, loneliness, his own pain and loss and grief. He really understands Sonny for the first time, and he understands music for the first time.
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