Sequel To Sonny's Blues

The death of Sonny greatly affected his brother. Sonny was on the verge of releasing a collection of jazz music recorded by he and his musician friends, when his brother received a phone call that Sonny had died of a heroin overdose. Sonny's brother is then filled with depression and conflicted emotions over his brother's death. He had just learned how to communicate with Sonny, despite the barrier drugs had put between them for years, and now Sonny is gone forever. Upon hearing of the death of Sonny, his brother can only think of the words one of Sonny's friends once told him when he wondered why Sonny had such a death wish; "He don't want to die. He wants to live. Don't nobody want to die, ever" (Baldwin, p. 121).

Sonny's brother walked through Sonny's funeral as if he were in a coma. He had only lately begun to communicate with his brother, on the verge of understanding the role jazz played in Sonny's life. Despite his troubles with heroin, his brother knew Sonny needed the drug to feel alive, to be able to affirm life through his music. Despite this knowledge, he was miserable that just as he and Sonny began to understand each other, his brother was gone forever. How he wished he could see Sonny's face one more time, to see that look of fire in it that he had never before noticed until he watched his brother consumed with the fire of music and creation, "�the face I saw on Sonny I'd never seen before. Everything had b

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