Sonny's Blue and Two Kinds Rebellion
Kelvin Flores
Eng 1B
02/20/2013
I'll take over Children are rebellious; it is part of childhood to rebel against parents or guardian. Through rebellion process, a child must go through challenge of their beliefs, enduring influences, acceptance and understanding. By analyzing characters from the stories about rebellion, I realize that one does not simply rebel to disappoint others; it is more of a misery than having an understanding of one another. In the story "Sonny's Blue" by James Baldwin, Sonny struggle to find what he truly is and what he wants to be, with the inevitable interference of his brother's logical approach on how he raise him. Sonny finds himself lock between his dreams and reality that sets him off to rebel against his brother. Similarly rebellious but different in bearings, Jing Mei from "Two kinds", by Amy Tan, is a distressed child that tries to be understood by her mother. Jing Mei is imprisoned by her mother's high expectation that led her irresistible misbehavior towards her mother’s chain of fate to her. Rebellion does not entirely cause people a disaster, it is a battle of opposing beliefs between people, and especially children must go through this act of self-confrontation to be able to find their own selves. Finding who we really are needs a lot of effort, through rebellion we can definitely prove to anyone what we really believe in, and for better or worse we can see what we have become. Looking for what we are and what we want to be is important and necessary phase in life and we mostly experience it during childhood. When Sonny's brother, the narrator, confronts him with what he wants to do with his life, Sonny said that he wants to be a musician, jazz musician in particular. "and - well, yes, sure, I can make a living at it. But what I don't seem to be able to make you understand is that it's the only thing I want to do-".(Baldwin 17). Sonny is disoriented on how his brother does not understand that music is the
Eng 1B
02/20/2013
I'll take over Children are rebellious; it is part of childhood to rebel against parents or guardian. Through rebellion process, a child must go through challenge of their beliefs, enduring influences, acceptance and understanding. By analyzing characters from the stories about rebellion, I realize that one does not simply rebel to disappoint others; it is more of a misery than having an understanding of one another. In the story "Sonny's Blue" by James Baldwin, Sonny struggle to find what he truly is and what he wants to be, with the inevitable interference of his brother's logical approach on how he raise him. Sonny finds himself lock between his dreams and reality that sets him off to rebel against his brother. Similarly rebellious but different in bearings, Jing Mei from "Two kinds", by Amy Tan, is a distressed child that tries to be understood by her mother. Jing Mei is imprisoned by her mother's high expectation that led her irresistible misbehavior towards her mother’s chain of fate to her. Rebellion does not entirely cause people a disaster, it is a battle of opposing beliefs between people, and especially children must go through this act of self-confrontation to be able to find their own selves. Finding who we really are needs a lot of effort, through rebellion we can definitely prove to anyone what we really believe in, and for better or worse we can see what we have become. Looking for what we are and what we want to be is important and necessary phase in life and we mostly experience it during childhood. When Sonny's brother, the narrator, confronts him with what he wants to do with his life, Sonny said that he wants to be a musician, jazz musician in particular. "and - well, yes, sure, I can make a living at it. But what I don't seem to be able to make you understand is that it's the only thing I want to do-".(Baldwin 17). Sonny is disoriented on how his brother does not understand that music is the