Sonny’s blues a story that I enjoyed reading for class. I did find it hard to follow at times. But it’s about two brothers that endure so much suffering. Which reveals how different they are and the reason why Sonny’s brother cannot understand him. Sonny the main character who has a heroine problem addiction, and a passion for jazz and becomes a musician. Sonny’s brother is the narrator. While sonny feels more intensely all the hard ship in his life, his brother keeps his feelings locked in and chooses to ignore his own pain. James Baldwin uses jazz music as the main metaphor. The end of the story was complicated for me to get, I didn’t understand it but once we read it aloud and over again it began to unfold. We also were introduced to Lectio divina which is sacred readings where we did three out of the 4 steps, which was listening, reflecting, respond, and resting on the text. I have heard of doing this before with scripture but not with literature I kind of enjoyed it. And we practice it on my favorite part of the story the ending. I was able to reflect and what I got from it was rebirth, re finding your place but being restored by breath of life, the rhythm. Also reflecting life through the blues. And he was focused on the wrong. During class it was great hearing my peer’s thoughts and the words and phrases that stood out to them. And some of my classmates thoughts like Isaac‘s was “God wants us to jump in the deep.” Instead of me sharing what came to me, I was just soaking in what everyone else was saying. I really enjoyed this story and the activity in class and being able to close in pray.
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