The tragedy, of the short story, “Sonny’s Blues,” written by James Baldwin, is signified using the violent undertones portrayed throughout the text. Violence is described throughout the story in many instances. Those being through the narrator’s workplace and the students who attended, through the presence of drugs, through the death of his daughter, and through there being an overall successful outcome and yet still being left in a sorrowful situation.
The first main portrayal of violence to…
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