Epiphany

Elaborate an epiphany, a narrative perspective held in common between The Older Brother (or Sonny) in James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues” and the “Invisible Man” in Ralph Ellison’s “Battle Royal”—a seeker’s perspective, an exiled prophet’s perspective, a quest for reconciliation.Explain also why setting, in historical and anthropological context, is so crucial to understanding each of these characters—each story in allusion to that which is sung by Bob Marley in “Babylon System” and/or Leonard Cohen in “Everybody Knows.”

Illuminate your comparison in juxtaposing with Jimi Hendrix’s persona of “Killing Floor”, RayCharles’s persona of “Am I Blue” or The Beatles’ persona of “Let it Be”—as well as Luke’s Parable of the Prodigal Son.

Elaborate an epiphany, a narrative perspective held in common between the “Invisible Man”in Ralph Ellison’s “Battle Royal” and The Older Brother (or Sonny) in James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues”— a commodified and cannibalized perspective, an exiled prophet’s perspective. Explain also why setting, in historical and anthropological context, is so crucial to understanding each of these characters—each story in allusion to that which is sung by Bob Marley in “Babylon System” and/or Leonard Cohen in “Everybody Knows.”

Illuminate your comparison in juxtaposing with either Billie Holiday’s persona of “Strange Fruit” or Langston Hughes’s personas of “Song for a Dark Girl”or “Ballad of Booker T.” (Pages 968-71 in Anthology).

This need not be any more than two or three paragraphs, no more than one to one and a half typewritten and double-spaced pages. Think of this as journaling.

Please sustain the habit of quoting well and selectively from the stories, lyrics, poems and other artifacts.

Please turn this in, in hard copy, at the beginning of the week’s last class session.

preview of the answer…

Epiphany can be defined differently in various disciplines. However in today’s paper we are interested in epiphany in literature. It is defined as a point of realization of something by a character in a story after an event has occurred. In the story by James Baldwin titled Sonny’s Blues we look at the narrator of the story who is the older brother to Sonny
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