Sonnys Blues
The instrument that dies with the narrators uncle
What is a guitar?
The place that represents healing for African American musicians during this time.
What is Harlem, New York?
Many African Americans moved here after WWII to escape prejudice.
What is Paris, France?
What is a social construct?
In both pieces, Baldwin connects how identity is shaped by this.
What is race?
The instrument that helps Sonny "survive."
What is a piano?
What is Sonny and his brother?
Encounter on the Seine was written in this year.
What is 1950?
Black Africans and Black Americans misunderstand one another because of this.
What is different experiences of oppression?
Both of the stories showcase relationships that require this for true understanding.
What is empathy and listening?
The life event that causes the narrator to speak to Sonny again.
What is the death of his daughter (Grace)?
The emotion that Sonnys music represents.
What is healing/survival/freedom?
The two groups that are compared in this essay.
What are African Americans and African Europeans?
"The African has not yet been robbed of its ________." (Fill in the blank).
What is history?
Sonnys music is similar to the message on identity in Encounter on the Seine because they both do this.
What is change pain into expression/freedom?
The advice the boy gives the narrator when he is asked about Sonnys wellbeing.
What is he will relapse?
The biblical image that appears at the end of the story.
What is the "cup of trembling"?
Baldwin says a European African must confront this in order to find psychological peace.
What is reflection/understanding of history?
Baldwin argues that African Europeans and African Americans must do this.
What is stop judging one another through the lens of colonial standards?
Paris and Harlem in each story represent this.
The place where Sonny spent time instead of going to school.
What is Greenwich Village?
The lesson that the narrator learns by the end of the story.
Baldwin says Black Americans have had _______ stolen from them. (Fill in the blank).
What is their history/cultural roots?
Both the African European and African American must do this to find freedom.
Sonny and the African Europeans both search for a voice because of this.
What is the struggle to express pain in a place that has systemically opressed them?