The two plays I would like to discuss do just this and, in turn, reveal other parallels which comment on the nature of human communication. ... Although the rest of the play is more dialogue of the same nature with nothing solved between these two, eventually Benjamin leaves Ronnie to his violin and steps downstage to perform a monologue to the audience about how he was, in truth, also an Asian American, his full name being Benjamin Wong. ... However, it is their inability to accomplish anything which ultimately supports Kushner's comment on human communication. ... BIFF: O please come...

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However it is "Sonny's Blues," a short story found in Going to Meet the Man that lends the greatest insight into Baldwin's struggles. ... While "Sonny's Blues," was published nine years later, in a collection of short stories titled Going to Meet the Man, it continued to address racial and religious tensions interlacing the thematic imagery of exclusion. While exploring the social and racial divisions that he had experienced as a young man, the story is not auto-biographical. ... "Sonny's Blues," begins as a story of two worlds, one occupied by the nar...

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