Essays About Sonny'S Blues

At its best, James Baldwin’s fiction is lyrical, intense, poetic, outrageous, improvisatory, brutal, and transcendent. The first time I read his short story, “Sonny’s Blues,” I was sitting in one of those massive chain bookstores, drinking coffee and trying to block out the pabulum coming from the Muzak. Imagine my surprise when I suddenly found…

My loop breaking experiment will solely focus on to stop reading books on my i-pad until 3 AM. or 4 AM in the morning. I have been stuck in this loop for past four years where I am so addicted to reading which resulted in sleep deprivation, procrastination, high dose of caffeine consumption and lastly…

Nonfiction tells of truth and personal experience. A speech has the capacity to stun an audience with its intensity. However, fiction, and only fiction, has the power to open a reader’s heart and speak directly into it. In “Sonny’s Blues,” author and political activist James Baldwin uses fiction to tell a story of African American…

Poverty is an inarguable inevitability that exists in every country, and it is unlikely to disappear anytime soon. Despite being considered one of the most developed countries in the world, poverty rates within the United States have remained persistently high. Unfortunately, as this vicious cycle of impoverishment continues, ‘lifelong barriers and troubles are passed on…