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For this discussion forum, please answer one (only one!) of the following prompts:

• Read James Baldwin's short fiction story, "Sonny's Blues" (pp. 67-93 in the Norton Intro to Literature 12th edition)
• Read "Understanding the Text: Plot" (pp. 57-65 in the Norton Intro to Literature 12th edition)

Option #1) "Sonnys Blues" begins in medias res. What does Baldwin achieve by beginning the story this way? In order to answer this question, youll need to discuss the storys opening paragraph (which begins, I read about it in the paper). How did this paragraph affect you as a reader? What information does it give the reader, and what information does it withhold? When the narrator says, I stared at it in the swinging lights of the subway car, and in the faces and bodies of the people, and in my own face, what do you think it refers to? What is this it that he sees in other people and in his own face?

Option #2) The textbook introduce various key terms related to plot, including the term climax, which the textbook defines as the moment in the plot of greatest emotional intensity and/or a moment when a certain outcome is decided. Which moment in Sonnys Blues do you think serves as the climax? Quote the sentence or sentences that you think make up the storys climax, and, then, try to make a persuasive argument for why that particular moment should be seen as the climax.

Option #3) Other important terms that the textbook introduces are conflict and resolution. What do you see as the central conflict in Sonnys Blues? You should describe this conflict in your own words, but also include quotations from the story to support your description of the conflict. How does the story resolve the conflict? Again, describe the resolution using your own words but also quote the story to support the claim youre making about how the conflict resolves. (You should note that a resolution doesnt necessarily mean theres a happy ending, but simply that the tension fueling the conflict has somehow been released or modified).

I chose option #2 to work on I bold it. If anyone knowledgable, I would be very thankful. Please do this and thanks. It is simple to work on.