Essay 1:
The two stories named “The Sonny blues” and “A Rose for Emily” described the psychological aspects related to human beings. Sonny Blues is a short story based on the life of a boy named Sonny and his brother, who has been described as a narrator throughout the story. Sonny was a younger brother of a narrator who suffered a lot of pains and miseries throughout his life just because he was black American. His brother always judged his brother as a careless and irresponsible person who was destroying his life through falling into drug addiction. Throughout the story, the narrator remembered past events about his family members (Mays 10-148). His father and mother were not alive; he seemed his father and Sonny as similar in nature because of their drunken nature (Mays 10-148). But he realized about his dead father why he turned to drug addiction as his mother told him about his uncle’s death who got hit by a car being driven by many white people. After his tragic death, the life of his father was damaged. The narrator was in the army, and he was asked by his mother to take care of his younger brother. When he returns from the army at his mother's funeral, he discussed the plans with Sonny, who told him about his interest in becoming a singer, which his brother refused. He asked Sonny to live with him in his in-laws house and got completed his education (Mays 10-148). They provided him a piano in their house, but Sonny left education, went to Greenwich Village after arguing with his elder brother, and joined the musician’s band there. His brother did not make contact with him after he left but in the end when Sonny came back to meet him, the narrator thoughts about Sonny got changed, who expressed his feelings that he joined the music to express his frustration that he suffered throughout his life. He became a part of a jazz band in order to escape from drug addiction. Knowing Sonny's intentions, and emotions narrator appreciated his brother's struggle that he made to transform his life (Mays 10-148).
Essay 2:
The character analysis of the A Rose for Emily revolves around an aristocratic woman who was deeply adored and admired by her community. Apparently, she seemed to be like a woman who never expressed her feelings and secrets because of her high status and aristocracy. She was not allowed by her father to love any person (Mays 10-148). Moreover, community people also thought the same. However, she got involved in a person who visited the community for some construction. Community people did not like it at all, so they asked Emily's cousins to stop her from doing so. Apparently, she did not display any expressions but did get angry with her cousins. Emily’s desire for human love and her feelings that were suppressed for a long time turned out to be horrible in the end. As she killed her lover with poison and slept for an ample of days with his dead body. After killing him, she got isolated from the community in order to cover up that murder. When Emily died, and people came to her funeral they got shocked to look at terrible dead body of her lover found in a locked room and along with that, long thread of Emily's grey hair also found lying next to his body that revealed that she had used to sleep with his lover's dead body (Mays 10-148).
Both of the stories described the psychological behavior associated with an individual. As to adopt music, Sonny had to pass through all the sufferings and pains in order to express his feelings and sorrows. It was music that comforted him but at the same time, it refreshed his sufferings and grieves. Similarly, Emily who was deprived of human love and never expressed her innate feelings took an unusual and unexpected action that was the result of her suppressed feelings. Though she murdered her lover but loved to sleep with his dead body through her death reveals that she wanted to get close to him forever.
Bibliography
Mays, Kelly. The Norton Introduction to Literature. W. W. Norton & Company; Portable Eleventh Edition, 2013. Print.
