Analyzing Racism in Sonny’s Blues

Analyzing Racism in Sonny’s Blues

The story of Sonny’s Blue is written in a singular narrative style. The story is about the narrator who narrates the story about the younger brother called Sonny who happens to have been caught in the act of using heroin. Despite the narrator being a teacher in one school in Harlem, he still finds it hard to get his mind away from Sonny. This is because, he is so much worried about all the young boys in class who fails to have a bright future, and therefore they mostly likely to indulge themselves in drugs, just as the case of Sonny. James Baldwin who happens to be…