Sonny's Blues

Sonny's Blues

Why is the narrator using images of lightness and darkness at the beginning of the story ?

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The images of lightness and darkness are important because of the course of the story, we learn that the narrator escaped the darkness of the ghetto and poverty. Sonny, however, was left behind.... and his life was far different.

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Sonny's Blues