A portion of Theogony dives deep into the start of many of the gods that bring distress to people like “Neglect, Starvation…Disorder, Disaster,” and many more (Hesiod 10). Hesiod is extremely intellectual in demonstrating that everything humans despise going through has been around for an abundant amount of time. Coming from an unsafe environment Sonny from Sonny’s Blues ultimately got twisted in the trap where he lived sending him into a terrible heroin drug addiction and soon getting put in jail. The extremely vague question continuously asked by the Narrator to Sonny, “How can you stand it,” it meaning the pain of life, presumes that the Narrator has no idea how his younger brother is still finding meaning to his life even after tragic experiences …show more content…
This death did not only affect poor Grace because she was the one physically going through the pain, but also it affected the Narrator, her mother, her oldest sister Isabel, and her two brothers. Pain has no age requirement. Due to any type of suffering being unbearable at times, many people continue to attempt to live their lives pain free which is not possible because life equals uneasiness, heartache, and misery. Toward the beginning of Sonny’s Blues the Narrator seemed to not care much for Sonny, but throughout the short story more love began to rise. It is evident that Sonny’s life hasn’t been the easiest, but instead of the Narrator telling his younger brother to attempt to live life hurt free, the Narrator pushes for Sonny to “die – trying not to suffer” (Baldwin 17). Attempting to not suffer at all in life will eventually bring an immense amount of stress to a person because they are not living their life being fully who they are. The characters of this short story are fully aware that the agony and trouble they experience “stretched above” them and is “longer than the sky,” for example, the gods in Theogony (Baldwin