Talk:Sonny's Blues

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The last line in the first para of this article says that Sonny's friend informs that he would be let out and be all alone. But in the text the friend says that they would let him (Sonny) out and the addiction would start all over again. "They'll let him out and then it'll start all over again."

The second para of the article has the line,"At this point we learn how Sonny is related to the narrator.." But even before this when the brother is in his classroom after class hours, he hears the laughter of children playing and he says that he was listening to the noises made by the children as he was thinking of his brother. He, thus reveals his relationship at this juncture itself.

The fourth para starts thus, "The narrator then thinks back to the last time..." Shouldn't it be recalls instead of 'thinks back'?

In the fifth para, a line starts like this, "Both of these...". I guess it should be "Both these".

The pronoun 'they' is missing in the second line of the 8th para. "They see each other intermittently and whenever they do" 117.243.20.12 (talk) 11:11, 20 January 2016 (UTC) https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Sonny%27s_Blues&action=edit&section=1[reply]

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Terrible and inaccurate summary.

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Section: The Prevalence of Tragic Optimism

Some of this page is informative and readable. The general tone, however is one of original research. A search for "James Baldwin Viktor Frankl" does presently turn up one page from The Marginalian which mentions both in the main text. It is not sufficient in my view to back up the claim that the two should be considered "mainstream tragic optimists". I suggest that this whole section might be deleted if a more appropriate source can not be found for the claim; its tone is more suitable for a critical essay than an encyclopedia entry. Krozruch (talk) 19:36, 18 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]