Post for 10-19

Today I started and finished reading the story “Sonny’s Blues” and despite the length of the story the time it took to read it, I really enjoyed the story. I thought it was really interesting how the author described the music being played at the end of the story as something like a conversation between the instruments. I thought the story was just overall very creative. Now this creativity goes a little far in the way that it explains the father’s brother’s death. Maybe it was to illustrate how horrifying of a death the father had witnessed, and if that was the point it did a good job. But it was disturbing enough just to read how the car trampled over him and you could hear the scream coming from underneath the car and the sound of the guitar’s wood breaking and snapping. All in all I really enjoyed reading the story.

Now I got Professor Corrigan’s email saying that we should really spend time with the story and give it a nice through read through. Now I did sit down and read the entire thing from beginning to end with just a small break to rest my eyes, but I feel like I have not really taken anything away from it. Maybe this is because I am writing this blog only five minutes after reading the story and haven’t really searched for a deeper meaning to the story. Though as I look back upon the story to try and relate it to class there is one thing that sticks out like a sore thumb and that’s the common element of suffering that we see in Professor Corrigan’s class. I am interested to see how Professor Corrigan is going to incorporate this story into class and what he will say about it tomorrow.