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Firlakuza [10]
3 years ago
12

How does Baldwin encourage sympathy or disdain for certain characters in Sonny’s blues?

English
1 answer:
Misha Larkins [42]3 years ago
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Answer:

Baldwin in his story 'Sonny's Blues' has encouraged sympathy and disdain for certain characters.

Explanation:

'Sonny's Blues' is a short storyy written by James Baldwin. The story is centered around the unnamed narrator and his drug addict brother, Sonny.

The author managed to encourage sympathy or disdain for certain characters in the story by the unnamed narrator. The narrator disdains Sonny's friend who always ask him for money. This was evident when Sonny's friend said that he would have killed his life to which the narrator dissented. The narrator disdained drug addicts of his brother, his brother's friend, and also his students.

The other incident when narrator disdains a character was when he saw a man and tthree woman singing and testifying. He disdained his heritage there. The narrator developed sympathies for the characters when he came to know about their sufferings. For instance, after his daughter's death, he began to sympathise with his brother's sufferings.

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