Sonny's Blues

At first glance of reading this story I was really interested, based on how the author kind of sold this mystery of who Sonny was. It was as though the first page was a long hook and kind of teased the reader to who this man was or relation he had with the writer, at the moment the writer stated it was their brother the anxiety died and your interest level of what this story is really about begins to climax. As I read more and more I begin to really find the way the writer wrote and described the emotion that was felt by his abandonment of his brother and the emotions felt about him hearing that he was in jail for heroin. At that moment I begin to really fall in love with the story line because this type of plot is very similar to where I am from and what goes on in my neighborhood. Every other day I would always find out about friends that I grew up with since I was small was doing serious time for either drug usage, credit card scams, and gang related violence. I begin to really feel where the writer was coming from. So I began to really put myself in the story. What I found out to be very interesting is that he hasn’t had any type of communication from his brother for about a year, and the only way he even found out about his brothers situation and where abouts is from a the newspaper. Now I could only imagine how a person would feel about finding out that a close sibling was found arrested for drugs and not finding out from a relative but on the morning paper, is crazy. But the point of the story that I found to be very shocking was when the two brothers begin to dialogue through the letter. I had never thought about writing a letter to even my closest friends that got caught up, I always thought they were to embarrassed and wanted to be left alone.