This story felt like forever. I feel like it drug on. However, I feel like the overall plot of the story has a great point. I feel that the author was trying to get the point across that family means everything. When the story starts talking about the dad dying and the mother telling her son about his dads brother dying it really starts to put together a concept that family is forever and that they should be there for you and you should be there for them at all times no matter what because you never know what could happen. In the story I find it weird that the narrators name is never mentioned so I can't really fit a face to a name. I feel a sense of frustration for the narrator because his brother was a drug user. It must be really hard to be able to get through that.
I also find it interesting when the article talks about the things that were going on around them. It helps to put together a image of the characters and settings we are dealing with. For example when the mother is talking to her son about his dads brothers death she says, "The car was full of white men. They were all drunk, and when they seen your father's brother they let out a great whoop and holler and they aimed the car straight at him" and as it continues it states " till the day he died he weren't sure but that every white man he saw was the white man that killed his brother". To me, this labeling of the white race may indicate that the story is of a black family. It also signifies the times of hardship blacks were dealing with especially since it seems as if the boys did it on purpose. And after doing so, they never stopped or turned themselves in.
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I really think you've made a nice argument here and I agree with a lot that you've brought up. In my own experience, I really got confused because the narrator wasn't named and I had to backtrack when he started rambling on, making sure it wasn't Sonny who was supposed to be talking. Also, because the author was so descriptive, we were able to tell the tone of the story and get a nice sense of what the location and the time was like which isn't easy. You also mention the issues the blacks face during this time and the vivid description of the conversation between the narrator and his mom. You have a great point of how hard life was for them.
ReplyDeleteI agree that with you that the story felt like it took forever to read. I would have also like if they would have given the narrator a name it makes the picture in your head a little more complete. I also think the stories lesson was family means everything. I do not think that the narrator would have tried so hard to keep his brother out of trouble if he did not care about him as much as he did. It would be very hard to have a brother or sister that did drugs because you want to help them so bad and you don’t want them harm themselves and you cant help them unless they are willing to get the help they need.
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