While “Sonny’s Blues” begins and ends in the present day of the story, there is an extended flashback in the middle. The following passage—which comes as the narrator is eating dinner with his family and Sonny after picking Sonny up from prison—captures the moment that the story switches from the present of the story to the past:
I was trying to find out something about my brother. I was dying to hear him tell me he was safe.
“Safe!” my father grunted, whenever Mama suggested trying to move to a neighborhood which might be safer for children. “Safe, hell! Ain’t no place safe for kids, nor nobody.”
He always went on like this, but he wasn’t, ever, really as bad as he sounded, not even on weekends, when he got drunk.
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