“Sonny’s Blues” is about Sonny and his older brother (the narrator). It talks about how Sonny comes back to Harlem to see his older brother but the narrator is trying to help Sonny improve his …show more content…
Sonny has a hard life coming back from jail but his older brother was trying to change Sonny from the person that was using drugs and having a hopeless dream. For his sake the narrator was trying to be his father. Such as, how Jamal is getting help from his friend William so he can improve his writing to move forward. One part in Sonny’s Blues when Sonny was coming back from prison he went to see his brother for guidance such as Jamal seeing William to help him guild his writing to a better deration from where it was before. Another part in Finding Forester Jamal would write in his journal to get through the hardships he was going through with society as well as Sonny but his way was to use heroin so he could forget things that made him sad as well as for him to become