Both the narrator in "Sonny's Blues" by James Baldwin and Huck in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain feel the urge to escape from their reality as a means of attaining happiness and finding their way in life. However, their reasons for escaping are completely different and so are the ways in which they manage to do so. The aim of this essay is, therefore, to discuss the how and why the Narrator in "Sonny's Blues" and Huck escape. We will start by briefly looking into both characters' backgrounds in order to be able to understand the reasons...
forging his identity rather than neglecting it as the Narrator in "Sonny's Blues" does.

In the end Huck and the Narrator adopt a different attitude towards the issue of escape. The Narrator realizes that he has been escaping to evade his lot, rather than because he really identifies with the white community, and decides to face who he is and where he belongs in. Huck, however, being fully aware of his decision of escaping, makes up his mind completely and embarks on his journey westward, breaking away completely with a society where, he feels, he does not fit in.