Throughout the “Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin we see Sonny transform as a character through his fight with drugs and music. I feel that this image best illustrates how Sonny must have felt through his process of choosing music over heroin as throughout the story we see moments where Sonny might return as a heroin addict but seems to come back to a sense when reuniting with music. This image illustrates a person making a very meaningful and important choice who represents Sonny that sees only two options in their life which are represented by buttons one being drugs and the other being music which illustrates Sonny’s struggle throughout the short story “Sonny’s Blues”.

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