Sonny's Blues

The speaker (Sonny's big brother) was on leave for the Army and just when he's about to leave, his mother told him about his father and Uncle. She told him that he needs to keep in touch and watch after his brother Sonny. His mother told him that one time her husband and his brother was having a good time and was really drunk. The Uncle played his guitar at a Joke Joint and was singing at the same time. When the two left,it was dark as dark can get,and the brother ran down the hill. A car full of white folks was driving and was also drunk. So they was messing around and tried to hit the Uncle and they did hit him. The father ran down the hill and saw his little brother dead in the street. His blood was all over the street and his pulp from his body. Ever since that day the father lost his brother, he became stronger but even more loving. So that's why the mother told her son to watch after his brother. The world was very cold back then and still is till this very day. Sonny's brother was never told this story until now and he never knew he had a Uncle.