Sonny's Brother Son Analysis

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The narrator (Sonny’s brother) is reminiscing about his young childhood growing up in poverty in Harlem, New York. His younger brother sonny was influenced in a negative way, and began to go down the wrong path. Unfortunately, was introduced to hard drugs at a young age and was arrested for possession of heroin. The narrator (who is a grown man now) is a algebra teacher in Harlem, and realizes that some of his students could end up like Sonny given that they are growing up with the same difficulties as his younger brother. As the narrator walks home one day notices one of Sonny’s old friends is on the same block he is always on, which makes the narrator hate/pities Sonny’s friends who is going through the same problems as Sonny just not in

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