A Critical Analysis of Sonny’s Blues Communication is the key to a person’s success or failure throughout life. It is the process of informing another person of his or her thoughts and feelings. Communication can be represented through various forms, such as, speech, body language, one’s actions, and music. In James Baldwin’s, “Sonny’s Blues”, the use of communication is illustrated between the characters through their interaction and actions. . Often people …showed first 75 words of 431 total…

…showed last 75 words of 431 total…the music and understands the pain that Sonny has inside of him. The narrator states, “ . . . I heard what he gone through, and would continue to go through until he came to rest in the earth” (70). Sonny had communicated his feelings of his life through music and helped his brother understand. Baldwin, James. “Sonny’s Blues.” The Norton Introduction to Literature. Ed. Jerome Beaty and J. Paul Hunter. New York: Norton & Company, Inc., 7th ed. 1998. 47-70.