Compare and Contrast of “Sonny’s Blues” and “Everyday Use”...

Compare and Contrast of â€Å"Sonny’s Blues† and â€Å"Everyday Use† These two stories â€Å"Sonny’s Blues† written by James Baldwin and â€Å"Everyday Use† written by Alice Walker are both examples of struggle for African American people. These two authors Alice Walker and James Baldwin are both African Americans. Through their writings both writers wanted to critique, analyze and assess the culture that they belong to. In each of the two short stories, â€Å"Sonny’s Blues† and â€Å"Everyday Use,† allow people who read these stories to make discoveries of the lives of African American families. These people who are apart of these families have to live in society and be able to deal with struggles and difficulties around them from being equal but separate at the†¦show more content†¦Sonny had learned his own ways to deal with the â€Å"ambiguity and irony of Negro life† since leaving prison. Sonny had dis covered a way to find his freedom that worked best for him and that was through music. He started to play Bebop. By playing his music he let go of his frustrations that came with being another unsafe black person living in this place. His father would always be negative to his mother when she would bring up the idea of wanting to move to another neighborhood. He would think that any place they could move to would be the same and all be unsafe for children and for anybody. Through playing and being a part of music Sonny had discovered a solution to his marginalization and being left alone from his own society. Sonny was able to reconnect with African Diaspora by learning to play blues music and Bepop. He was then able to escape the social and economic issues that he faced living in the ghetto which also allows this reconnection to represent his roots. This music was his solution and only way that Sonny could feel free. When Sonny would play blues, his brother and many other people we re able to understand and also through his music he could help them be free too. In contrast of â€Å"Everyday Use† written by Alice Walker, the use of her character Dee discovers a different and special way to make a description of what Baldwin calls the â€Å"ambiguity and irony of Negro life.† Dee really did not want to resemble her