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  • Essay / Sonny's Blues Thesis - 1361

    Drugs are one of the themes in this story that shows the impact on both the user and their loved ones. There is no doubt that the heroine destroys lives and families, but she provides a momentary escape from the character's oppressive environment and serves as a coping mechanism to help him deal with the human suffering that confronts him. surrounded. Suffering is seen as a contributing factor to his drug addiction and the suffering is linked to the loss of the narrator's daughter Grace. The story opens with the narrator feeling ice in his veins when he learns of Sonny's arrest for heroin possession. The two brothers manage to work things out and know that his younger brother has an addiction. He buys him another alcoholic drink at the end of the story because he has accepted his brother for who he really is. Harlem is the scene of this history and has been a center of drug and alcohol abuse. The initial event of this story shows that Sonny is still caught in this world. Sonny says he only sells drugs to make money and claims he no longer uses them. In the story, the brother begins to see that Sonny has his own problems, but he tries to help the people around him by using music to comfort him.