Grace, who was the narrator's daughter, died after a battle with polio. After Grace's death, the narrator begins to realize how much darkness there was in Sonny's life. Therefore, he realized that he had lost his own grace for not helping Sonny with his problems and for breaking a promise he made to his mother before her death. This would bring up another biblical reference from the story of “The Fall.” Baldwin uses this source constantly throughout Sonny's Blues as he uses the verb "to fall" several times. The Narrator would have flashbacks of Sonny as he was learning to walk. When Sonny walked towards the narrator, the narrator caught him “before he fell when he took his first steps in this world” (Baldwin, 128). These flashbacks would remind the narrator of a brother's role in protecting his brother from falling, which was a duty and a promise made by his mother that the narrator failed to keep. This would bring us back to Grace where the term "fall" is used again to describe Grace's death. Grace's fall would haunt the narrator because it recalls "Sonny's fall and Grace's own fall for ignoring the promise he made to his mother not to let Sonny fall" (Tackach,