Questions on Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues"
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Assignment #2: Questions on Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues”
1) What is the older brother’s profession? Does it suggest anything about his personality?
2) What event prompts the narrator to write to his brother?
3) What does the narrator’s mother ask him to do for Sonny? Does the older brother keep his promise?
4) The major characters in this story are called Mama, Daddy, and Sonny (the older brother is never named or nicknamed). How do these names affect our sense of the story?