Sonny's BLues

This story was indeed long and filled with ancecdotal information. The narrator went off on to many side conversations with himself and stories about events from his past. He spent a lot of time looking back on such past events in a way to figure out what was happening in the present. In this way he was looking for reasons for Sonny's actions and present behaviors. Also, wondering why Sonny began using heroine. The reason was, as he found out from Sonny, to escape suffering. This is the reason many people take drugs, because they don't want to deal with the problems for themsleves and instead try to cover them and their feelings with drugs. It is a weak way to deal with life. It also seems though, at the end that Sonny finds a different escape through the music. The narrator describes how he sees and hears the musicians enveloped in the intruments and the blues. Most people don't hear what the musicians hear. They only hear sounds. The people within the music hear so much more, that of which I cannot even describe. A feeling much stronger than that of most things. And this is what they live for. This is what Sonny described at the beginning of the story as what he wanted to do with his life, the only thing he wanted to do. His brother doubted him and they broke apart and went seperate ways. In the end, Sonny lived exactly how he had dreamed. He had his music and that seemed to be for him, an incredible satisfaction, that could come from nothing but the blues.