A plot of a story is the order of events that have been chosen by the author to catch the reader’s attention. The author choses a certain order in which to tell the story to introduce characters in certain order along with suspense and surprise. It shows how certain events in the story are related, how they connect and who they connect with. Telling a story in chronological order does not add the element of keeping the readers mind into the story because it does not give the reader any questions to think about as they are reading. The plot of the story “Sonny’s Blue’s”, it is clear that the author starts the story in the middle of the events. He shows the story through the eyes of the brother of Sonny finding out his brother had been arrested for drug use. He then flashes back to their childhood because of the sound of the children outside while he is in his classroom thinking about what he had read in the newspaper. He looks back to their childhood, the conversation he had with his mother after their father died about being a father role in Sonny’s life. Though he neglected the conversation he had with his mother and proceeded to get married and join the army days later. It was until his mother died that he had to return home and sit with Sonny in their house talking about their lives and how different they were. They were two separate people and had very different lives. They fought and disagreed on many things such as Sonny’s dreams. The brother had to go back to the army so Sonny moved in with his wife Isabel’s family. Sonny loved to play the piano and played day and night until he was caught not going to school anymore and quickly stopped playing and ran away. Though the brother tried to help him, Sonny was too far into the bad crowd that he slammed the door on his face and they never spoke again. It was then where the brother had found out about