Question

consider the following excerpt from \sonnys blues.\ click on the sentence(s) or phrase(s) that suggest that sonnys musical performance toward the end of the story is almost a religious-like experience.

then they all gathered around sonny and sonny played. every now and again one of them seemed to say, amen. sonnys fingers filled the air with life, his life. but that life contained so many others. and sonny went all the way back, he really began with the spare, flat statement of the opening phrase of the song. then he began to make it his. it was very beautiful because it wasnt hurried and it was no longer a lament. i seemed to hear with what burning he had made it his, and what burning we had yet to make it ours, how we could cease lamenting. freedom lurked around us and i understood, at last, that he could help us to be free if we would listen, that he would never be free until we did. (par. 240)

Explanation:

Identificar el contexto del pasaje

Analizamos el fragmento de Sonnys Blues de James Baldwin proporcionado en la imagen. El texto describe la interpretación musical de Sonny en el club de jazz hacia el final de la historia.

Buscar referencias religiosas

Buscamos palabras o frases asociadas con la religión, la fe, la liturgia o la adoración espiritual dentro del texto.

Analizar la frase clave

La frase "Every now and again one of them seemed to say, amen" (De vez en cuando uno de ellos parecía decir, amén) contiene la palabra "amen" (amén), que es una declaración de afirmación espiritual utilizada en contextos religiosos y congregacionales. Esto sugiere que la actuación musical funciona como una experiencia similar a un servicio religioso o un ritual sagrado para los oyentes.

Answer:

"Every now and again one of them seemed to say, amen."