The Biblical Narrative of Sonny\'s Blues

James Baldwin, the astounding source of a captivating and shocking piece of work, lays the foundation of a moral and spiritual marrow in watchwordnys discolor.There were countless prominent biblical references and situations used to evidence the floor, the apologue of the Prodigal Son in relation to the both word of honors, brotherly love and compassion, the confidence of both brothers, light and evil and more significantly, the cup of panic. The very same lessons the tidings teaches us, were incorporated in the story.\nThe parable of the Prodigal Son tells the story of a creation who has 2 sons. One of the sons, perhaps the youngest, asked his breed for inheritance. Upon receiving it, the son distances himself in a distant place, and wastes every dime on material items. As the money grew thinner and thinner, the son received a vocation working with pigs. Eventually, he recognizes what he had done, and pleaded forgiveness from his father, which he receives. Sonny s Blues very similarly features two boys taking different paths. The elderberry bush takes the narrow path and the younger takes the other leading towards the darkness, influenced by bad habits and addictions in the world. The elder son makes a man of himself; he has accomplished numerous great things, being a mathematics teacher especially. On the other hand, the younger son has made nothing but a fool of himselfas he chooses the road of drugs, he is all the same displayed locally as a drug salesman, which was the reason for his upstart incarceration. The storyteller stairs at the newsprint on the base in his hands, which spells out the linguistic process of his brothers, S-O-N-N-Y and the story behind it (Baldwin 362). The narrator began to create an image of a block of ice in his stomach, and physically as he describes his clothing wet from the melt down of the ice.\nLike a record, everything began to instant replay in the narrators head; he pictures his mother, She st ood up from the window and came ...