Can you find a place in the story where Baldwin makes use of the images of darkness and light?

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1) At one point the narrator says that Sonny was playing “playing for his life”; what does this quotation mean to you? Explain
2) Can you find a place in the story where Baldwin makes use of the images of darkness and light? Explain the use of light and darkness
3) Reread the exchange between the narrator and Sonny’s friend. How would you characterize the narrator’s behavior and feelings towards Sonny’s friend? Is the narrator kind, cruel, compassionate, abrupt, empathic, angry? Explain your view and the evidence supporting it. Why does the narrator react the way he does?
4) Critics have said that “Sonny’s Blues” is a story about hope but that hope is tempered by knowledge of terrible dangers. Explain what you think that means.
Is “Sonny’s Blues” a story:
* That moralizes against drug use?
* That tries to explain why people become addicted to drugs?
* About a man’s struggle to kick a drug habit?
* About an artist’s struggle to kick a drug habit?
* About the effects of drug use on a family?
* About the ways in which drug use and self-expression can sometimes serve the same purposes.
What does the narrator mean by “the tale of how we suffer . . . must be heard”?
This world-view held by the narrator is sometimes referred to as “The American Dream.” Do you believe in the American Dream?

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