Your assignment is to prepare and submit a paper on james baldwins sonnys blues and tilly olsens as i stand here ironing.

Your assignment is to prepare and submit a paper on james baldwins sonnys blues and tilly olsens as i stand here ironing. Sonny’s life appears to be destroyed by his addiction to drugs that caused him to be imprisoned. The two brothers do not seem to be doing well at the start as they are ever quarrelling. Following one particular argument, Sonny asked the brother to “consider him dead” from that point henceforth. When Sonny was taken to prison, the narrator deliberately turns his back on him by refusing to offer assistance that perhaps would help Sonny get out of prison. In doing this, the narrator had betrayed the request made by his mother to take care of Sonny, as well as betrayed the natural blood relations that required him to obviously take care of his brother. However, this situation is not permanent as at the end of the story the narrator comes back to his senses. He realizes that “blood is thicker than water” and, therefore, takes an action that brought Sonny back home. From this point henceforth, the narrator resolves to take care of Sonny no matter what. The narrator becomes his brother’s keeper by constantly watching over him, and hopes that Sonny would one day be out of the darkness of prison and drug abuse. Similar to the above case, Tilly Olsen’s short story As I Stand Here Ironing also talks about family relations and love. Although the mother seems to only have good old memories of her daughter Emily at the start of the story, the end of the story shows that love ultimately triumphs in family relations. Mother’s loss of touch with her daughter is shown by the author by allowing the audience to understand her inner thoughts. For example, the mother recalls how her daughter used to be a “beautiful baby at birth,” a quality that none of her other children’s possessed. However, as the child grew older, mother’s love and admiration for her began to somehow to fade away, and the mother seems to also admit this.