Barn Burning and Sonny's Blues

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…here is that we all have the same feelings in life (happiness, sadness,) but the way that we look at those feelings are what make us different from each other. We want to be heard and understood and accepted by our family. This is the struggle that is ongoing throughout the story, where the narrator is attempting to understand, which he finally does in the end through the very thing that Sonny loves, his music.