In at least one hundred words, explain what Sonny learns from Joe Willow through the event in the passage.

This is the passage
"You see what happens when the sun goes down?" He pointed to the evening star and motioned toward the other stars that had appeared in the east. "When the daddy goes to bed, all the little children come out." His teeth gleamed in the gathering darkness, and I smiled, too.
We had watched the stars for only a moment when Edmund called again.
"You better get on home," Joe Willow said. "That's your daddy calling you."
"I'm Rosa's boy," I said.
"I know," he said. "but you better get on back." He looked up again at the deepening sky and laughed softly. "I'll see you some other time – ‘Rosa's boy.'"

Sonny learns about the sun and the stars.

The way Joe Willow explains the change from day to night, is that when "daddy", in this case the sun, "goes to bed" (sets), "all the little children come out". The "little children" refer to the stars, they are coming out in the sky at night time.

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joebiden1 joebiden1 · Answer 2 · 2018-08-16T23:27:28+02:00

In this excerpt from the short story The Passage by Durango Mendoza, Joe describes the sun and the stars and how they relate to life and death. The "daddy" is referring to the sun, and the "little children" are the stars. The story explores the theme of loss of innocence and mortality, and this passage further conveys these two themes. The sun setting is a metaphor for death. When the sun dies, the stars finally come out. This could be interpreted to mean that a person cannot truly grow up until they experience the loss of a loved one.