ENG 1120 Lecture 2: ENG1120-Sonny's Blues Analysis

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 1120
• Professor: Cory Sampson

Document Summary

Determiner- a, the, numbers or quantity measures. Preposition-relative position or semantic relationship of a noun or phrase. The subject of a sentence is a noun: the dog barked. Simple and complete subjects: simple subject, one word that does the action in the sentence, 12 angry poorly dressed men with bad haircuts burst into the room, complete subject. Includes adjacent phrases that describe the simple subject: 12 angry poorly dressed men with bad haircuts burst into the room. A lot of character development, especially for sonny: at the (cid:271)egi(cid:374)(cid:374)i(cid:374)g, you do(cid:374)"t hear fro(cid:373) so(cid:374)(cid:374)y first ha(cid:374)d, o(cid:374)ly a(cid:271)out hi(cid:373) fro(cid:373) his brother. How the narrator sees the difference between being a man and a boy: loss of innocence, experience vs. inexperience, the cross over the line of childhood to adulthood. Sun-down town- referred to thousands of communities where black people would not be able to stay after a certain curfew (cannot rent a house, cannot stay in a hotel etc. )