James Baldwins Sonnys Blues

James Baldwins Sonnys Blues Explore the theme of self-discovery in James Baldwin's remarkable "Sonny's Blues." Perhaps, in your paper, you could basically chart the development of the narrator. Where is he (psychologically speaking) in the beginning of the story? Where (again, psychologically or emotionally) does he end up? How does he get from point A to point Z? What role does the younger brother (Sonny) have in the narrator's developmental journey? Baldwin's story is an account of a reconciliation between two brothers from Harlem, but it's also, in a sense, an account of the narrator's reconciliation with his own self and his own black heritage. So . . . one way to approach this essay would be, once again, to explain the ways in which the narrator is "divorced" (so to speak) from his brother and his heritage in the beginning, and the ways in which he grows more and more connected to his brother and his African American-ness by the story's end.