Introduction to English Literature
 

 

1. The Plot Stages of "Sonny's Blues"


Exposition: Sonny's arrest and a meeting with Sonny's friend(-p.78)


Rising Action:

-Narrator's reunion with Sonny(driving home scene, pp.78-80)

-Flashback 1(Mom's story of their uncle's death, pp.82-85) 

-Flashback 2(Narrator's confrontation with Sonny about his dream of becoming a Jass musician, pp.85-88))

-Flashback 3(Sonny's fleeing from Isabel's family and enlistment with Navy, pp.89-90)

 

Climaxthe second confrontation of Narrator and Sonny(p.90)

 

Falling  Action: Grace's death and Narrator's conversation with Sonny(pp.90-96)


Resolution and Denouement: Nightclub scene(pp.96-100)

 

Reading of a few passages from "Sonny's Blues"


1. Exposition(pp.74-78)

-the way the important facts are revealed to the readers(pp.76-77)

 

2. Rising Action(pp.78-90)

-Narrator's reunion with Sonny(driving home scene, pp.78-80): going back to the past the two brothers share

-Flashback 1(Mom's story of their uncle's death, pp.82-84)

-Flashback 2(Narrator's confrontation with Sonny about his dream of becoming a Jass musician, pp.85-88)

-Flashback 3(Sonny's fleeing from Isabel's family and enlistment with Navy, pp. 89-90)

3. Climax: the second confrontation of Narrator and Sonny(pp.90)


4. Falling Action: Grace's death(pp.90-91): the theme of "suffering," a sacrifice.

Narrator's conversation with Sonny listening to an old-fashioned revival meeting(p.91-96): a hint of redemption

 

5. Resolution and Denouement: Nightclub scene(pp.96-100): the narrator's recognition of the value of the music Sonny has devoted himself to, "the cup of trembling" as a sign of forgiveness and redemption. 

 

Charlie "Bird" Parker, "Groovin' High"

 

 

 "Am I Blue"

 

"Am I Blue?"
 

Am I blue, am I blue
Ain't these tears in my eyes telling you
Am I blue, you'd be too
If each plan with your man done fell through

Was a time I was his only one
But now I'm the sad and lonely one, lonely
Was I gay till today
Now he's gone and we're through, am I blue

Was I gay till today
Now he's gone and we're through, am I blue
Oh he's gone, he left me, am I blue

 

 

 

  Related Binaries

SB Passage I.docx  SB1

SB Passage II.docx  SB2

SB Passage III.docx  SB3

SB Passage IV.docx  SB4

SB Passage V.docx  SB5

SB Passage VI.docx  SB6

SB Passage VII.docx  SB7

SB Passage VIII.docx  SB8

SB Passage IX.docx  SB9

 

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a lecture script on "Sonny's Blues" at UCDavis

 

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