Argumentative essay 3/1

In many short stories or novels, the protagonist is always accompanied and influenced
by minor characters that help to complete and give meaning to the story. These minor
characters may help the protagonist in mainly two ways: either help the main characters
to carry out certain actions, to find moments of enlightment, to understand difficult
situations, restore broken relationships, or, on the contrary, put obstacles in their way so
they do not achieve their goals in the story. On/in one way or another, the presence of
these minor characters is fundamental in the development of story; they help the
protagonists to define their personality in the story through the minor character’s pieces
of advice, conversations, flashbacks (?), among others/The protagonists may profit from
minor character’s pieces of advices, conversations. This may happen even more
frequently, if a minor character is closely related to the protagonist’s story/past. For
instance, their mother, father, sister, brother or wife because they may be highly
influential in the main characters’ decisions and attitudes throughout the story. This
seems to be the experience of the Isabel and the brother’s mother in the short story
Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin. These brothers have not seen each other for over a
year, and their relationship seemed to be fading away. Yet, these two women’s attitudes
and pieces of advice critically helped Sonny and his older brother to restore their
relationship. These women significantly helped the brothers to bridge the gulf that had
been created between them. The brother’s mother’s intervention in their relationship and
the promise the narrator made to take care of Sonny substantially helped in the brothers’
relationship, and Isabel’s optimism(?) and interest in Sonny’s welfare made the
brother’s relationship come to terms.
RO ACÁ TE PONGO LA MAOR CANTIDAD DE “EVIDENCIA” QUE PUEDE
AYUDARNOS. Algunas oraciones de Isabel son medio raritas, porque de nuevo, no me
parece que influencia demasiado en la relación de los hermanos.
Isabel
“How’s Isabel?” (Sonny)
“Just fine. She’s dying to see you” (Narrator)
“And Isabel, Who is really much nicer than I am, mor open and giving, had gone to a lot
of trouble, about dinner, and was genuinely glad to see him. [...] And she’s always been
able to tease Sonny in a way that I haven’t. It was nice to see her face so vivid again and
to hear her laugh and watcher make Sonny laugh. She wasn’t, or, anyway, she didn’t
seem to be, at all uneasy or embarrassed.”
“Isabel would write me, saying how nice it was that Sonny was so serious about his
music”
Mother
“If I’ll ever see you again, after you go off from here. But I hope you’ll remember the
things I tried to teach you.”
“If anything happens to me ain’t going to have nothing to look out for him [...] You got
to hold on your brother, and don’t let him fall, no matter what it looks like is happening
to him and no matter how evil you gets with him.”
Narrator
“And I had a lot of things on my mind and I pretty well forgot my promise to Mama
until I got shipped home on a special furlough for her funeral”