Sonnys Blues

Sonnys Blues was a pretty long story, but at the same time it was a good story and very influential to me. The story showed how two brothers could be so different and grow so far apart throughout all the years. I did not like how the brother made a promise to his mother that he would stay close with Sonny, and then break that promise when she died. The part that got to me the most was the part where the mother told her son about what happened to his father’s uncle. The mother also said that her husband could never get on with life after that incident, because he felt like he killed his own brother. As the story went on it looked like the same kind of thing was going to happen a generation later. In my family I have two siblings, a brother and a sister.

After reading this story I never want to get to the point where I am avoiding my brother or sister in the future. I always want to keep a good relationship with each of them throughout my life, I want to support them through all the good and all the bad. Me and my brother are five years apart and I am the older one, so this story spoke to me pretty strongly. When we were younger me and my brother always had those fights here and there, but it never resulted in us completely ignoring each other. I plan to keep that strong relationship with him going on and also with my sister. I think if I ever got to the point where I was ignoring my brother and sister and something really bad happened to them, I do not think I would be able to live with myself for being that stupid and not sorting things out with them. Therefore, this story was very influential, I really liked it, and this story serves as a reminder of what I plan not to do in my future relationship with my brother and sister.