Well we found out now that Brick has turned into a musician. He has also gotten into alcohol and drug problems. Sounds familiar you could say. Is it a reincarnation of Sonny's Blues? From observation there is quite a similarity in this section of reading to Sonny's Blues. The biggest to me is the role of the musician as a story teller. In Sonny's Blues there's talk of how Creole is talking to Sonny through the music telling him to let loose. Telling him we've all been through hard times. Well in The Girl Who Fell From the Sky we now find Brick having to tell Rachel a story. Though it's not truly through music, music is how he has remembered the story Rachel's dad told him in the hospital. Music is also the memory Brick has of simpler time before his drug abuse. He has held on to the song he learned on the harmonic from Rachel's dad for so long and has longed to tell the story of this song. He made the promise to Rachel's dad to tell her what he said and he never forgot that promise.
I wonder what made Brick travel down the road of drugs and alcohol. Maybe it was his lying about what he saw the day he saw Rachel's mom go off the roof. Maybe living with that was to much to bare. Maybe the drug abuse was his way of killing himself, but now he found Rachel what if she's the bird that has come to help him? Maybe Brick went down this road because he had to hold on the promise he made Rachel's dad all those years ago and wasn't able to find her to tell her. Or could be that he himself never felt like he belonged. We find out in this section he is light-skinned maybe he dealt with racism and bigotry just like Rachel and it was to much to stand sober. Maybe this is why he was angered with her comment about what his race was.
Thomas Moss (post 7)
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