Gary Soto uses simile of further help visualize the actualities of the weather conditions that were experienced. Poets effectively use similes and are greatly used to create images in the readers’ minds. It made it easy to visualize the extent the drought had on Gary Soto’s community. In his poem he writes,“They passed the fields where the trees dried as thin as hat racks” Firstly, the simile is used to compare hat racks to dried trees. Normally, trees are seen as organisms that look alive and healthy, well those once healthy and pure trees, turned into lifeless twigs barely clinging onto life. The dried trees as thin as hat racks. Hat racks have thin knobs that are just large enough to hold the hats. The simile was used here to further helps
