Comparing Sonnys Blues And The Garden Party By Katherine...

In every story, the journey the hero commences on makes them unique compared to the other characters in the story. The hero is the main person that grows, changes, and gains new perspective throughout the story while their sibling on the other hand, does not. In the stories, Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin and The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield, the characters Sonny and Laure are two different types of hero archetypes. Sonny is the hero of the absurd while Laura follows Joseph Campbell’s hero arc. The stories are extremely different but the one element they have in common is that Sonny and Laura’s journey causes them to have a different outlook from their siblings, the Narrator and Laurie. Sonny and the Narrator are mostly different,†¦show more content†¦The Narrator does not realize that despite Sonny being a heroin addict, he was always trying to pursue his main goal in life, which was being a musician. The Narrator always ignores Sonny’s po sitive qualities such as being hard working and determined to focus on the negative qualities. In his eyes the negative qualities he sees is Sonny being an addict, skipping college classes, and running away from home to join the army. However, when the Narrator sees Sonny play for the first time in the jazz club, it makes the Narrator see Sonny in a whole new light, for who he truly is. â€Å"And Sonny went all the way back, he really began with the spare, flat statement of the opening phase of the song. Then he began to make it his. It was very beautiful because it wasn’t hurried and it was no longer a lament. I seemed to hear with what burning he had made his with what burning we had yet to make it ours, how we could cease lamenting.† (Baldwin 49). Sonny reaches accomplishment by becoming musician like he had always wanted. However, in the story if the Narrator’s dream after the army was to become a high school teacher or not since we do not know much about his character. He makes the reader focus way too much on Sonny to the point where the reader does not know who he truly is as a character. In the story The Garden Party unlike Sonny and the Narrator being very different