"Sonny's Blues", by James Baldwin, is a story about the past and present lives of two brothers. The story is told in first person point-of-view by Sonny 's brother, whose name is never mentioned. The narrator begins with the event of his brother getting caught in a raid for using heroin. The significance of this event triggers many memories and emotions for the narrator and his brother. The narrator tells many stories from, the place …showed first 75 words of 4392 total…

…showed last 75 words of 4392 total…help us to be free if we would listen, that he would never be free until we did."( ) This discovery reiterates Creole's earlier assessment of the blues: "There isn't any other tale to tell, its the only light we've got in all the darkness." Here the blues provides for the player and listener a temporary flight away from the despair of their daily condition. The blues that they are playing touches the heart without words.