Root of change in sonny

Throughout the novel sonny changes, he gets older wiser and grows in to a man. He has adult confrontations he deals with conversationally and physically. Weather it was fighting the old man on the street throwing the rock at the creeps car or having sex with Cindy. He changes mentally, he discovers love and sex, yet they are separated by two different girls. He feels love and compassion for Nica but uses Cindy to become a man. Sonny as well experiences a lot of racism in the entire book which makes him understand and comprehend the world a bit more. When you first start reading the book you cannot tell what Donnie age is exactly. It almost like he's between the ages of 8-16. You think he is very young and this is what the author whoever you To think. Because there fore you can see exactly how sonny changes from this boy into this man, with over 1000 dollars a car responsibilities and freedom, with that freedom how ever can come punishment. So we see sonny try to sneak around the punishment to make things go his way. I think the root of this change was his mom marring cloyd. If they were to never have gotten together all of this would have been completely different. Because sonny was brought out of his house and put into a whole new world with a whole new inner community, while still realizing there is the entire world out there.

When sonny talks about every thing he can hear in the city on pages 181-182 he knows that there is so much in this city that people are doing. People being born people going to hospitals, people being racially discriminated. All while he is sitting in the old mans chair. He realizes that there is so much more out in the world then just this little area. And he wants to show Nica as well.