Loretta Young once said “Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you.” This popular theme is present in Gary Soto’s work.Victor‚ the protagonist in the short story Seventh Grade and the protagonist in the poem Oranges both have a goal which is to convince the girl they like to fall in love with them. The goal in both stories was that the main characters is trying to impress a the girl they like. Victor‚ the main character in Seventh Grade likes a girl named Teresa. She had
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Yollie Yollie from “Mother and Daughter”‚ by Gary Soto is remarkable because she has many admirable characteristics while this story takes place at Yollie’s house. Yollie is very intelligent. Her family is very poor. She often is a joker but has to deal with her mom teasing her back. Yollie is very intelligent‚ poor‚ a joker‚ and very lovable but her mom and her struggle to find more money for them to buy new things. Yollie shows many traits throughout the story‚ “Mother and Daughter”. In the beginning
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Some people make up lies about themselves or their family members. Lying about one’s self is bad because one is not being truthful about who one is. Lying to people one cares about can bring someone loneliness and sadness. “Seventh Grade” by Gary Soto and “Heartbeat” by David Yoo apprise us that Victor and Dave learn the importance of being themselves because regretful situations occur‚ and their classmates may never trust them again. Being truthful
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Marble Champ Being determined to reach your goals is very hard to handle but if you try hard and practice a lot you can overcome anything that comes your way. In the story “Marble Champ” by Gary Soto Lupe is a young girl who wanted to be like every other kid at her school be good at sports. But lupe was not good at sports. Then one day she finds a sport she can play and she is determined to reach her goals by being smart‚ gaining confidence‚ and working really hard to be the best at that sport. She
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Soto’s Eddie in Buried Onions: Running from Himself When driving through Fresno‚ California it may seem like an ordinary‚ underclass city‚ but to Eddie Fresno is a prison he cannot escape. In Buried Onions Gary Soto describes the hardships and challenges of Eddie’s life. Eddie had grown up in the city of Fresno‚ one not known for its friendly people and wealth. Eddie is desperate to escape Fresno and his whole past‚ that he does not even realize that it is a part of him. Eddie tries to run away
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Moreover‚ Soto uses onomatopoeia in his biographical narrative in order to show his audience that he was given many opportunities to realise that he’s making a great error in judgement but‚ by the time he realised it the deed was done. To elaborate‚ before Soto went to the German Market‚ he had been listening to the howling of the plumbing underneath his house but‚ he had completely forgot about it and because of that fact he ended up committing a sin. This is shown when in the text it states‚“Forgetting
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Shady Brook Elementary School. He began to shoot students and staff. After killing 15 students and two teachers in the first classroom‚ he entered the classroom of 27 year old Victoria Soto. Soto‚ knowing that their life was in danger‚ had already hidden her sixteen students in a closet. When the gunman burst in‚ Soto lied and told him that her students were in the gymnasium. As a result‚ she lost her life to protect the lives of her kids. Vicki is the named that she was called by the many people who
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one’s life. In Gary Soto’s autobiographical narrative‚ he steals a pie from a German market‚ and then feels guilty about the whole incident. Gary Soto recreates the experience of his guilty six year-old self with the use of religious imagery and language‚ the description of his paranoia that everyone knows‚ and the use of the fact that he attempts to escape his guilt‚ but is haunted and unable to escape it. Soto uses religious imagery to relive the time when he stole the pie. Gary Soto “[knows] enough
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In the book‚ Lizzie and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt‚ Willis and Turner don’t get along very well‚ but as Mrs. Elia Hurd gets moved into the house for the feeble minded‚ they find a friendship. Willis and Turner start to connect because they both like Mrs. Hurd‚ they both like Baseball and they both want to be special and set aside from the normal. Baseball was very popular back then and it was a way to show who how cool you are‚ When Turner moved to Phippsburg‚ he didn’t make quite an
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Do you want to live? If you do you will think or know that Hunting is a cruel‚ it is wrong to kill animals as a means of entertainment. Less than 5 percent of the U.S. population hunts. Twenty percent of foxes who have been wounded by hunters are shot again. did you know that if hunting goes out of control people on the earth might die because we need meat for us to live in the world and if we do not have meat we can die. we all live on a cycle if that cycle has someone missing the others will dies
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