An analysis of the harsh world a black boy has to face while growing up in the fire next time by jam

Vivaldo refuses to admit any of this, although it is indicated that it may be true of their relationship. Rufus becomes habitually physically abusive of Leona, and she is admitted to a mental hospital in the South. The story takes place in Harlem, New York in the 's and tells of the relationship between two brothers.

Despite his privately confessed reluctance to bring "Another Country, unfinished, into yet another country," Baldwin completed the book in Istanbul in The riot in New York all began due the fatal shooting of a young African American boy by a white police officer. The significance of "Sonny's Blues" lies in the way Sonny's brother describes their relationship based on what he observes, hears, and feels, and how he struggles trying to understand Sonny through the course of the story While there are a large number of outside influences that shape how one relates to others, Baldwin argues that religion is one of the key components in African-American relationships in the early twentieth century Everyone's relationships become strained in the course of the novel.