Sonny’s Blues Essay

Halet Tesfaye

English 1110

Dr. Ladin

Sonny’s blues essay

In the story of “Sonny’s blues” by James Baldwin many things are discussed. Some of them are not refer clearly you have to dig deep to understand and some of them are just clear and right in front of your face. One of the things that is mentioned In Baldwin’s writies around the last paragraphs is about “cup of trembling” connected to the book of Isaiah he did that because Baldwin was a preacher in his early days. Now the question is what does the cup of trembling has to do with sonny’s blues and what do trembling means. In the book of Isaiah trembling is referred as great suffering and I think Baldwin connected this to the story of his life Sonny’s life and his mom’s life and his community’s life to that scripture story.

When we look at Sonny, he has particularly has gone through a lot of suffering stating getting caught for