Response to Questions 1&3, From the First 50 pgs

The passage I found most difficult to interpret is on page nine, after Sonny was wounded in the chest and the man trying who broke down the door took off.  My assumption is that Sonny is talking about hearing his mother on the phone. Though I feel like you’re never actually sure because he referees to the person he dreads hearing over the phone as “her.” Sonny wonders who she is talking to and when after the call she has when she would be leaving. Sonny emphasizes on how much he dreads hearing the phone by comparing it “waiting on the school bell, jumping at how loud and always expecting.” He interprets that when he over heard brief moments of silence something bad was going to happen.  Which may prelude to the situation Sonny and his mother are in currently in the book, which is living with Cloyd.  He later describes that he tries to just forgot the words his mother says by letting them “disappear into a hole that was bigger than any room I been in.”  The next passage jumps suddenly to meeting Cloyd Longpre and Sonny’s first impressions of Cloyd. The meeting of Sonny and Cloyd seems to be part of the book since later his mom and Cloyd marry and then move in with Cloyd. The passage before seems significant in the sense that the reader sees the relationship Sonny and his mother has as well as the type of men she dates. It seems important to know what kind of mother she is as well as the men she dates because the one before Cloyd beat the crap out of Sonny. If she tends to date men who would do that to her son then there could be a chance that Sonny could be in another abusive household. What I found difficult to interpret was the significance of the passage in between Sonny getting hurt and meeting Cloyd. Though it seems its not only this passage that difficult to interpret but the rest of the book as well when there is gaps in-between significant events that aren’t really fully explained.  My question is when does Sonny ever fully explain where his father is? When does he talk about his mother getting married to Cloyd? Or when does he explain what his mother says about the situation of her ex coming over and beating the crap out of Sonny? In page 18, Sonny asks why Cloyd and what was she thinking? He could tell that she didn’t like him, and wanted to hear her tell him a story that made sense. He describes that he was older than her in a way that isn’t about years; he just wanted to hear something practical.  My prediction is that there is definitely going to be some confrontations between Sonny and Cloyd.  Mostly because Sonny doesn’t care much about the guy and is shown hysterically by wanting to try to learn French and go to France to see Notre Dame just to mess with him.