https://padlet.com/gonzalg/COR100GG Scholarly Conversations en-us 2018-09-17 22:14:25 UTC 2025-10-12 09:18:03 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/File.png gonzalg https://padlet.com/gonzalg/COR100GG/wish/292629424 2018-10-15 01:28:16 UTC https://padlet.com/gonzalg/COR100GG/wish/292629424 gonzalg https://padlet.com/gonzalg/COR100GG/wish/292635931 2018-10-15 02:08:12 UTC https://padlet.com/gonzalg/COR100GG/wish/292635931 gonzalg https://padlet.com/gonzalg/COR100GG/wish/292640103 2018-10-15 02:40:54 UTC https://padlet.com/gonzalg/COR100GG/wish/292640103 gonzalg https://padlet.com/gonzalg/COR100GG/wish/292645121 2018-10-15 03:12:30 UTC https://padlet.com/gonzalg/COR100GG/wish/292645121 gonzalg https://padlet.com/gonzalg/COR100GG/wish/292645749 Using this 16-minute audio helped me set the scene for Sonny's love for Jazz, and the voice of the narrator has this 60s vibe and rhythm to his voice that helped me follow along better.]]> 2018-10-15 03:15:51 UTC https://padlet.com/gonzalg/COR100GG/wish/292645749 gonzalg https://padlet.com/gonzalg/COR100GG/wish/292646237 This full 'Sonny's Blues' audio book helped me follow along the entire reading, and helped me persevere through the pages.]]> 2018-10-15 03:19:09 UTC https://padlet.com/gonzalg/COR100GG/wish/292646237 gonzalg https://padlet.com/gonzalg/COR100GG/wish/292647263 This quote enhances my understanding of 'Sonny's Blues' because of the connection it has to what the mother in the story said after she told the story of the father's brother's death. Even though times hadn't changed, the narrator's mom wanted to face that by giving the narrator the responsibility of looking after his brother Sonny, in hopes of starting the change with him. ]]> 2018-10-15 03:26:09 UTC https://padlet.com/gonzalg/COR100GG/wish/292647263 gonzalg https://padlet.com/gonzalg/COR100GG/wish/292650191 Library of Congress. “American Memory (Library of Congress).” African American Odyssey: Slavery--The Peculiar Institution (Part 2), Le Moyne A-Z Database, memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart1b.html

Under the subtitle 'CINQUEZ--A BRAVE CONGOLESE CHIEF', it talks about a Congolese slave who tried to gain his freedom and when he was awaiting trial he said, "Brothers, we have done that which we proposed . . . I am resolved it is better to die than be a white man's slave." This connects to the library physical source because just like James Baldwin believed, the changes that happen come through the will of those who live in the world and want to act upon such injustices. This helped me understand the reading a little bit more because focusing again on the scene where the narrator's mother tells him to take care of Sonny, she wants to make sure that he knows he did everything he can to make sure that Sonny is safe so he doesn't end up like his father: still held prisoner by the white man as he is haunted by the memory of the death of his bother. ]]> 2018-10-15 03:47:11 UTC https://padlet.com/gonzalg/COR100GG/wish/292650191 gonzalg https://padlet.com/gonzalg/COR100GG/wish/292650857 Hardy III, Clarence E. Jame Baldwin's God: Sex, Hope, and Crisis in Black Holiness Culture. 1st ed., The University of Tennessee Press/ Knoxville, 2003.

In page 49, it includes the ending of one of Baldwin's speech, " It [the world] will not be transformed by an act of God, but by all of us, by you and me. I don't believe any longer that we can afford to say it is entirely out of our hands. We made the world we're living in and we have to make over." This quote helped me understand more the reading of 'Sonny's Blues' because it shows why Baldwin was so focused in the narrator making a change and helping Sonny like his mother in the story tells him: our fate and the change that needs to happen needs to come from us since we are the one's living in it. ]]> 2018-10-15 03:52:48 UTC https://padlet.com/gonzalg/COR100GG/wish/292650857