Sonny's Blues

To be honest, this story was kinda confusing. Throughout the story it talks about Sonny and how he is addicted to drugs and his love for music. Then at the end of the story, Sonny plays a show and his brother reminisces upon life. To me I see no connection between whats going on here. I don't really see a moral other than to not do drugs because they are bad for you and they can totally mess up your life. This story though has made me realize what some people go through in life. Some people really have it hard. In the story it talked about how Sonny and Isabel's mother had got into a fight and in the sentence after it said, "The silence of the next few days must have been louder than the sound of all the music ever played since time began." I liked how in the middle of the story the narrators words were gripping to me when he was comparing the silence of the next few days being "louder than in the beginning of time". It also talks about how Sonny just let loose when he got on stage and started playing. It was like he showed who his true self and who he really was in music. His brother never appreciated music like his brother, and maybe it was just me, but it seemed like the narrator finally started to come to understand music and his brother and why he loved music so much. So the comprehension of this story wasn't clear in its entirety but overall it was still pretty interesting.