Gary Soto

“More than baseball”. In the poem “Black Hair” by Gary Soto the speaker reminisces about a time in his young life when things might have been a little simpler. In great detail he remembers images of when he was eight years old, what he looked like and how he felt at that particular time. Three…

As a child, much of the minds of people reflect on bright, bittersweet moments filled with positivity and innocence. However, young children may also have a sense of knowing right from wrong, while feelings of guilt emerge from little to big mistakes. In the passage from “1996”, Gary Soto’s continuous thoughts of guilt convey themselves…

Sometimes you have to know to forget about the past and live the present. Gary sot thinks that his jacket stinked so bad “a jacket of dayold guacamole” it mad people run away , which ruined his life. Gary Soto explains this idea about be thankful for what u have which allows the reader to…

The Dirty Pie About every human being can remember some incident from their life that they wish had non happened. Many people can remember some dangerous title they committed where acquiring off with it was worse so being caught. In his autobiography, Gary Soto recalls a clip when he was six old ages old and…

Gary Soto speaks to the romantic side of all of us with his poem “Oranges.” In the poem, Soto uses the innocence and simplicity of first love, combined with symbolism and imagery of colors and light to evoke the feelings we all had on our first date. While the poem reads simply as words about…

Gary’s Soto “Mexicans Begin Jogging,” describes an event that happened when he worked in a factory where illegal Mexican workers were employed. Although the poem is simple, Soto brings identity, ironic, drama, and imagery to his audience. The narrative reflects irony the speaker went through and the dilemma that Mexican Americans go through. The poems…

In his short story, “Fear”, Chicano author Gary Soto conveys that people can sympathize with what they fear and feel shamed for their actions and thoughts against it. He illustrates this by using his own experience in school as a prisoner to Frankie, an emotionally disturbed bully to show that he can somewhat understand why…