Oranges
Oranges
"Oranges" begins with Gary Soto narrating one of his life experiences in this poem. He remembers a particular experience of walking side by side with a girl. There are two characters a twelve year old boy and his date. When the poem begins, the narrator is alone, and on his way to go pick up the girl. It was winter time and he only had two oranges with him, which his purpose was to share them with his date. The beginning of the poem is not very positive, though, but rather negative. In addition, he allows his focus wandering from the poem's main situation, his first experience with a girl, and instead makes a point of dwelling on the cold weather.
It all starts when the boy is walking to her house he’s very nervous because he has never been out with her or any girl before and even though it was his first date with her, he knows her house well, by looking at it day and night, recognizing the porch light that burns continuously. When her dog starts barking at the boy; she comes out of the house in response to its noise, with no mention of the boy not needing to knock or ring the doorbell. Looking beautiful as he describes her, he grabs her shoulder and they start walking.
As the walk they get to a store the bell rings when the door is opened so that whoever is working there, involved in other things, can know when a customer has entered the shop. The sales clerk is a mature woman who approaches her customers with individual care and attention. He moves to the candy display, offering to buy whichever candy she picks. The girl reacts with happiness to an offer of a candy, implying that she does not have much chance to purchase any candy for herself. However, is the fact that the boy does not even have the price of a candy bar in his pocket; he only has a nickel, while the chocolate she picked costs a dime. The boy quickly thinks of a way to deal with the embarrassing situation of having offered to buy the girl a chocolate but not having enough to pay
"Oranges" begins with Gary Soto narrating one of his life experiences in this poem. He remembers a particular experience of walking side by side with a girl. There are two characters a twelve year old boy and his date. When the poem begins, the narrator is alone, and on his way to go pick up the girl. It was winter time and he only had two oranges with him, which his purpose was to share them with his date. The beginning of the poem is not very positive, though, but rather negative. In addition, he allows his focus wandering from the poem's main situation, his first experience with a girl, and instead makes a point of dwelling on the cold weather.
It all starts when the boy is walking to her house he’s very nervous because he has never been out with her or any girl before and even though it was his first date with her, he knows her house well, by looking at it day and night, recognizing the porch light that burns continuously. When her dog starts barking at the boy; she comes out of the house in response to its noise, with no mention of the boy not needing to knock or ring the doorbell. Looking beautiful as he describes her, he grabs her shoulder and they start walking.
As the walk they get to a store the bell rings when the door is opened so that whoever is working there, involved in other things, can know when a customer has entered the shop. The sales clerk is a mature woman who approaches her customers with individual care and attention. He moves to the candy display, offering to buy whichever candy she picks. The girl reacts with happiness to an offer of a candy, implying that she does not have much chance to purchase any candy for herself. However, is the fact that the boy does not even have the price of a candy bar in his pocket; he only has a nickel, while the chocolate she picked costs a dime. The boy quickly thinks of a way to deal with the embarrassing situation of having offered to buy the girl a chocolate but not having enough to pay