Blog #1

Prompt #1

I think at this point in the story a number of things could happen to Sonny. Sonny could possibly get in trouble with the law. Sonny goes into other people's houses to experience how other people live. He looks at pictures or "If I felt like it, if I had the mood, I sprawled out on their couches or lay down on their beds," (Gilb, 2). Sonny admitted that when he snuck into these houses he would take money. It started out with taking loose change, then he moved on to bills, anything Sonny saw laying around. "A dollar, a five, a ten, any of them could be sitting around, folded, piled, like forgotten or nothing to them, or in a drawer or a box under the bed," (Gilb, 49). Sonny also stole two hundred dollars from someone and was also ripping off his mom and sister.
Another thing I think could happen to Sonny is his attraction to Cindy, the married woman who lives in the apartment #3. Cindy is constantly flirting with Sonny and always telling him how cute he is. "The towel wrapped around her was short and her thighs, which I could see a lot of , were still drippy wet too, but I was too uncomfertable to look too long", (Gilb, 40). Sonny found out that she is married and Cindy doesn't like her husband. He also found out that Cindy is almost nineteen. He thought she was older and he lied to her about his age. "I told her I was sixteen, even though I wasn't," (Gilb, 43).
Another thing I think can happen to Sonny is a possible confrontation with Cloyd Longpre. Sonny is not very fond of this man. Sonny thinks it is just a temporary home until his mother comes to her senses. Sonny doesn't like how his mother had changed herself for Cloyd. "My mom was dressed too pretty to take serious, shampoo in her hair and body lotion smell, and she was trying to hard to sound happy. Nobody'd believe her except her," (Gilb, 17). Sonny is not interested in conversating with Cloyd, he only does it because he has to, and to make matters worse Sonny was told that his best friend Goofy wasn't allowed to stay at Cloyd Longpre's apartment. His dog was staying with Cloyd's son. "You mean the dude who stuffs dead animals," (Gilb, 20).
Sonny knows that Cloyd isn't right for them, "All you had to do was look around the apartment to know this Cloyd wasn't right for either of us," (Gilb,19). Sonny didn't like the wasy Cloyd lived. He hated the maple dining room table, "And we never ate dinner at no table before, unless it was at a restaurant," (Gilb, 19). I think Sonny hated the living room the more than the dining room. I don't think Sonny cared for the dead animals on the wall. "He asked if I wanted to hear about the day he shot that buck. I was supposed to say yes. I couldn't stand there nice and listen, could not," (Gilb, 19). Sonny also didn't like the food Cloys liked, such as fish or venison. " I hated deer meat and will always hate deer meat. Cloyd food," (Gilb, 25, 26).