"Sonny's Blues" by James Baldwin: Learning To Accept The Past

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How do sonny & his brother try to escape the past? Is sonny's brother able to accept the past? "Sonny's Blues": Learning To Accept The Past What is the past? Webster's Dictionary defines the past as a person's history or background. The experiences of the past help make people who they are. It is the sorrows and joys, the losses and the victories of the past that shape and mold people into what they become. …

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…comes through his recapturing and acceptance of the past; the music conjures up his mother's face, his uncle's death, Grace's death accompanied by Isabel's tears"(Perspectives on James Baldwin: Approaches to Reading and Teaching "Sonny's Blues"). Works Cited Baldwin, James "Sonny's Blues" Literature and Ourselves Ed. Gloria Henderson, Bill Day, Sandra Stevenson Waller. Addison-Wesley, 2001. 107,109 "Perspectives on Reading and Teaching 'Sonny's Blues'." 28 January 2001 <http.//www.sasem.ac.at/csacl/progs/lit98/group/> Webster's Dictionary