A Second Look at Sonny's Blues

There was a few points in he article Sonny's Blues that stood out to me. One of my favorite lines were not a set of words that most people would ever recognizes as standing out to them but they did to me. At the top of page 390 I found it interesting where he was talking about the differences in age and how he wonders if the years would some how connect them both together like a bridge. That was very interesting to me. In my own life I have found where when I was a kid most of my friends would make jokes of the elderly. I never paid much attention to it but recently I noticed my brothers friends treating me different because of my age advantage to them, so now I have been able to connect the dots and observe how our society works. The gap between generations is a problem only because we make it a problem. The older generation has a lot of advice to give us just as they have a lot of knowledge to gain from us, and if we can ever see it for what it is maybe our generations can cross and learn to work with each other even better.
I only say this because when he was asking himself this question it was almost like he was worried that their age gap would not bring them together but keep them apart. I picked this up in the tone of the sentence, yes sentences have tones.

Another part that I absolutely loved was the line ,"All I know about music is that not many people ever hear it.". I myself write music and find that words and phrasing in the notes are crucial to the message and that the message can some times get lost if heard with the wrong set of ears. To really hear music is to feel it, breath it, and experience it. Music is one of the greatest Literary feats of all time in my opinion and with this great power comes misunderstanding, for the musician this can be disheartening, frustrating and sad, but not for the musician them selfs but for the audience which will never truly hear it.