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Sonny's Blues

In "Sonny's Blues," James Baldwin employs literary elements like first-person narration, flashbacks, and connotative language to explore complex themes such as racial identity, suffering, and...

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Sonny's Blues

The narrator begins to open himself to Sonny's music and allows it to transform something in his soul. For the first time, he is fully present with Sonny, and it changes the way he sees his younger...

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