onny's+Blues+Short+Story++Study+Questions


 * “Sonny’s Blues” Study Questions: Part 1 (pages 1-19)**

1. What is the narrator's occupation?

2. What is his relation to Sonny?

3. What does he find out has happened to Sonny at the beginning of the story?

4. What event in the narrator's life acts as a catalyst to encourage him to contact Sonny in prison?

5. Why, according to the narrator, were Sonny and his father estranged from one another?

6. At their father’s funeral, what does Sonny tell the narrator he wants to do with his life?

7. Why does Sonny leave Isabel’s house?
 * Part 2 (pages 19-32)**

8. Where does he go after he leaves?

9. Where does the narrator go with Sonny at the end of the story?

10. What happens there?