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James Baldwin JAMES BALDWIN Losing a father figure and learning how to go on differently then what he has taught you, or what you have learned is in fact a tough thing to do. In Notes of a Native Son, James Baldwin looks at whatever he can gather up about his father who past away. “. . . He was, I think, very handsome. I gather this from photographs and from my own memories of him, dressed in his Sunday best and on his way to preach a sermon somewhere, . . .”(Baldwin p.203). In comparison to Notes of a Native Son, Baldwin sets the same type of tone in Sonny’s Blues. Here Baldwin sets the scene to where a father figure is lost, but is not missed greatly. Sonny’s brother which is the narrator and who is older acts as the father figure in Sonny’s life. “. . . Sonny. . . I know how you feel. But if you don’t finish school now, you’re going to be sorry later that you didn’t. (Baldwin p.163). That just shows you that the narrator wanted the best for Sonny, and not for Sonny to become a bum on the streets. Even though both baldwin, father, stories, sonny’s, family, blues, sonny, son, native, narrator, love, death, two, shows, figure, show, out, notes, way, very, tough, though, thing, someone, society, sets, reader, one, note, much, missed, losing, know, just, james