The Jacket By Gary Soto Summary

The story I have chosen is called “The jacket” by Gary Soto The author illustrates how a boy woke up to a new ugly jacket. He put it on and zipped it up and pretended to like it. Which ended up leading to a bad day for him. He ended up getting mocked by others at school. The theme of the passage would be “Be thankful for what you have”. He needs to accept the things he can't change.
The narrator explained how the jacket made him feel paranoid. He didn't like the other people mocking him. The narrator writes, “ My best friend, Steve Negrete, ate an apple while looking at me, and the girls turned away to whisper on the monkey bars.” He didn't feel very good about it. It made him feel isolated and insecure. It was like he wasn't apart of them. The other people didn't want to be around him.
First when he got at the school he was worried about what was going to happen. The other kids facial expressions changed when they saw him. He went outside for recess and his friend wasn't talking to him and girls were looking at him and whispering to each other while hanging on the monkey bars. Then a bully pushed him on the ground and told him to stay there until recess was over. After that, even the teachers giggled to themselves because …show more content…
Things are happening back and forth because of his ugly jacket. All the events tie together. The only thing he can really do is accept it. There is nothing he can really do about it. He most likely won't get a new jacket for a while because his family is poor and he's lucky he even got a jacket. The narrator says “ I started up the alley and soon slipped into my jacket, that green ugly brother who breathed over my shoulder that day and ever since.” He goes on to say “But whole pieces still casually flew off my jacket when I played hard, read quietly, or took vicious spelling tests at school. When it became so spotted that my brother began to call me