The Blues

When I first saw that Sonny's Blues was a million words long I did not want to read it at all, so I started with the first page and it was very interesting. It's hard to know that there are people in the world that have dysfunctional families. If I had a dysfunctional family like in this story I don't think I would be able to handle it. Sonny wasn't the best kid around the block, but he wasn't to blame for all the madness and insanity that occurred in his life.
Not having a mother or fathers love can really put a damper in someones life whether that person wants to believe it or not. Sonny had a really hard life because he did not feel that love from a parent, or even a sibling because he and his brother really did not get along. Sonny found two outlets to let his emotions out. He began with the piano and then started using drugs, I don't think that this is extremely bad for someone who has been through all that he has had to endure. I mean I'm not condoning drugs, but there are many other things that Sonny could have gotten caught up in.
I can relate to Sonny in a lot of areas. My mother died when I was young, I moved in with some family, and at times didn't feel like I was a part of the family or even loved for that matter. I found plenty of outlets. It started with guys, and lead to a little bit of "peer pressure", then guys again. What we fail to realize is that all we need is God because He can provide our every need.
I think that the exercise in class was really good. When the professor was first explaining what we were doing I was a little confused. I did not know how it was going to work in this sort of text, but by the end I was really getting into it. Some people in the class did not like the fact that we were using a text that was not the bible, but I do not think you have to read your bible to hear God's voice. I was moved when I heard how Sonny's life was the last time around and I found myself praying for broken families like this. I prayed that they could find God as an outlet instead of other things that will not make anything better, but just make things worse.