Blog #3

Topic #1 a Theme: Sonny Stealing

I would like to write about Sonny Stealing and why he does it throughout the novel.  Since the beginning of the novel Sonny had mentioned he would break into homes and then finally admitted he would pick up lose change here and there in places that he figured people would forget about it so it was not a big deal. He also mentioned he did not know why he did it and he didn’t like the way he felt after he did it but he did. Later on in the novel Sonny bumped into an older man who got real angry with him but because the old man tried to hurt him Sonny hit him until the man was down and stole his wallet.  It seemed the angry Sonny would get inside he would rebel by stealing. I believe it was the rush feeling he would get the made him feel somewhat better inside since no one paid attention to him and no one understood him.  I am only curious to see if he gets caught for all the money he had been steeling, he was already caught for steeling the magazines.

Topic#4 The significance of the car salesman

I think the salesman Pink is important in this novel because he is like Sylvia and Sonny who are not races. He gives Sonny a car in return ask’s Sonny to keep an ear out of what Cloyde might be saying about Pink. Pink knows Cloyde and Bud look at him funny because he sells and talks to black people and wants to make sure he doesn’t run into any problems with the landlord Cloyde  so it is Sonny’s job to make sure Pink is up to date with what anyone is saying about him.  Sonny got to ride around with Pink one time and seen how he interacted with the blacks and even though Pink wasn’t a big man he explained him as big man out on the streets. I think Pink was about making money and didn’t care about color and race. He knew in the future things would be different but people like Cloyde and Bud just made things impossible for colored people but it would change. I am going to predict that Pink is going to have problems with Cloyde because they are going to find out that he has given the car to Sonny. I bet Cloyde is going to kick him out of the apartment complex or maybe Sylvia is just going to have enough of Cloyde and Buds behavior since they seem to look down on Mexicans and Blacks that Sylvia and Sonny are going to leave Cloyde.