Sonny's Blues

Who’s to blame? In the short story “Sonny’s Blues”, Sonny is a jazz musician who became a heroin addict. Sonny’s heroin problem was an example of Nurture vs. Nature. Nurture refers to our individual experiences and in life shaping who we are. Nature is the environment, for instance the place the person was brought up in, and the friends the person chose to associate with. Sonny’s father died suddenly in a …

…much communication from his parents, and also did not have a good relationship with his father. The Sonny left nurture, the environment too late, which made him become a drug addict. Work Cited “Black Literature Revisited: Sonny’s Blues’ in English journal, Vol. 60 No.1, January 1971 Biography online Database, Cambridge Encyclopedia Database, Oxford, Uk1997 Harris, Lynch. Inside America. New York: Random House, 1998 Hewlett, S.A., &West C. The war against parents. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**