Sonny's Blues Limitations

In the stories Sonny’s blues , Imitation of Life , and ...And the Earth Did Not Part all show the clear suffering of characters in these time periods because of the limitations placed upon them for no more than the color of their skin. For example in it says in this excerpt by James Baldwin: It’s what they’ve come from. (Page 82 Sonny’s blues by James baldwin). It’s what they endure.(Page 82 Sonny’s blues by James baldwin). this quote from Sonny's blues by James Baldwin:These boys,now,were living as we'd been living then,(by james baldwin )they were growing up with a rush and their heads bumped abruptly( James Baldwin) against the low ceiling of their actual possibilities. Page 5 Sonny's blues by James Baldwin .The terror ensued by the treatment and limitations of these individuals for nothing more than the color of their skin is horrible in Sonny’s Blues sonny his friend and many African Americans in the area have turned to drugs to get away from the pain of their
In summary it is a boy, having already witnessed the tuberculosis-related deaths of his aunt and uncle, is furious at God when his father suffered sunstroke while out in the fields. When the boy’s brother is hit by over working in the sun he collapses while working, the boy curses God. To his astonishment, the earth does not engulf him. In Sonny’s Blues Sonny's brother finds out from an article that his younger brother, Sonny, has been apprehended for heroin. As he prepares to teach his math class, thinking about Sonny as a young boy. His students, he now understands, they could someday end up like Sonny, given the trials and tribulation they face growing up in Harlem. At the end of the school , the narrator moves towards home, but he sees that one of Sonny’s old friends, who is always on drugs and dirty, is standing there for him by the school. They walk together, talking about