Who is Sonny from Going to Meet the Man and what is their importance? Going_to_Meet_the_Man English & Literature Sonny | Going to Meet the Man

Sonny is only fifteen when his father dies and not much older when his mother dies. Sonny is left in the care of his brother, but his brother is in the army at the time, therefore they spend little time together. Eventually Sonny runs away and joins the navy, hoping to escape the drugs that fill the Harlem neighborhood where he lives. Sonny is a jazz pianist and after the navy makes his living in this way. Sonny's brother loses touch with him, only to read about him in the newspaper one day when Sonny is arrested in a drug bust.