A set of children in this story are said to know only "the darkness of their lives, which was now closing in on them, and the darkness of the movies, which had blinded them to that other darkness."
A set of children in this story are said to know only "the darkness of their lives, which was now closing in on them, and the darkness of the movies, which had blinded them to that other darkness." In her dreams, a woman in this story is haunted by the agonized screams of her daughter Grace as she lay writhing in pain from polio. The narrator of this story is told how his uncle drunkenly ran down a hill with his guitar banging on his back, peed behind a tree, and died by being run over by a car filled with drunk (*) white men. This story begins with its narrator struggling to teach his algebra class after learning that the title character had been arrested for selling heroin. While living with his sister-in-law Isabel, the title character of this story sneaks off to Greenwich Village to mingle with musicians, skips school, and spends all of his time practicing the piano. For 10 points, name this story in which the narrator's brother joins a jazz band, by James Baldwin.
A set of children in this story are said to know only "the darkness of their lives, which was now closing in on them, and the darkness of the movies, which had blinded them to that other darkness."
Sonny’s Blues”