Analysis Of The Jacket By Gary Soto

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I wanted to start crying it was so ugly”. The boy in this story called “The Jacket”, it goes to an idea of how this young innocent little boy had his life ruined by this harmful clothing of cloth. In this story by Gary Soto the boy in the text describes his jacket in a way most don’t understand. He states this “ My jacket looks like day old guacamole”, Now what we can inform about this is that his jacket is apparently a really ugly GREEN which is why he describes the jacket like that. Our main character starts by describing to his mother that he needs a new jacket, his jacket that he has at this point in time, he loves this jacket but this one has holes, stains, rips etc and he thinks it's time for a change. This change will scare his soul …show more content…
and pushes our character to the ground and says “Stay their and don’t move”, and school gets even worse, even his friend sits there and stares at him while eating an apple and doesn’t even offer to help him, even girls talked about him, and the teachers laughed at him making it worse on him and we can definitely school is hard for him very, very

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