Dealer's Choice

Since we get to pick what we do for this one, i'm gonna stick to Sonny's Blues and look at all the deaths inside this story, especially his daughter's. I'll also talk about why exactly the narrator chose to contact his brother, Sonny, while he was in rehab. Death is mentioned a lot throughout this story, including the death of the Mother, Father and the father's brother, along with the narrator's daughter. Are the deaths the reason that things went south for Sonny in terms of his drug use? Maybe drugs are what Sonny turned to in order to cope with those loses. Also, when the narrator loses his daughter, it's not until this time that he decides to write to Sonny in rehab. What if he never lost his daughter? Would he have still contacted Sonny? Did he contact Sonny because he's lost everything but Isabel? Things like that make me think, like, why did it take all this time to contact him? Why not contact him beforehand, and let him know about his niece. I know in my life, there are some family that I don't hear from or contact unless something bad happens, but even then, I still think why we go so long without communication. I understand that certain things happen in life that will take two people far from each other, where there is minimal contact, but it opens my eyes here in this story, just because it's an odd time. I mean, I guess on the bright side he still contacted Sonny and reached out to him. At the end of the day that's all that matters, that he attempted to reenter the life of Sonny so that they could reconnect their relationship.