Would you rather live where you grew up or would you move away? The poem for “The Drought” by Gary Soto and the song “In Color” by Jamey Johnson have similar themes because they are both have dry, emotional theme but they are different because “The Drought” is emotional talking about the lack of rain and “In Color” is emotional talking about his childhood.
Gary Soto uses personification to show the clouds are dry and empty. “Scraping their bellies gray on the cracked shingles of slate.” The author is explaining how the clouds have ran themselves arid and that is why they are in a drought.
Soto uses a metaphor to show that the bottles in the basement haven’t been opened for years just like it hasn’t rained for a long time. “Their cellars creaked …show more content…
This song is about when he was a boy and how much better it was in person then it is looking at black and white pictures. Johnson used personification to show they were scared. “If it looks like we were scared to death, like a couple of kids just trying to save each other”. Johnson is showing that they were terrified like kids trying to save each other from someone trying to hurt them. He is comparing being scared to kids trying to safe each other because kids do not hand thing like that as an adult would.
The author uses a hyperbole to show that 1943 was not a good year because the winter was so cold. “In the middle of hell in 1943. In the winter time, you can almost see my breath”. He is using a hyperbole because he is over exaggerating that the wintertime was so miserable it felt like they were in hell. Johnson also uses imagery because he uses a human characteristic to explain how cold it was out.
Imagery is used show that it was beautiful day out with is grandma. “This is my favorite one. This is me and grandma in the summer sun. All dressed up the day we said out vows. You can’t tell it here but it was hot that June and that the rose was red and her eyes were blue”. He is using imagery here because he is explaining how it was a great day being with his grandma with the sun shining. Johnson also uses alliteration by saying “summer sun”. This is a alliteration because summer and sun both have the same sounding
Gary Soto uses personification to show the clouds are dry and empty. “Scraping their bellies gray on the cracked shingles of slate.” The author is explaining how the clouds have ran themselves arid and that is why they are in a drought.
Soto uses a metaphor to show that the bottles in the basement haven’t been opened for years just like it hasn’t rained for a long time. “Their cellars creaked …show more content…
This song is about when he was a boy and how much better it was in person then it is looking at black and white pictures. Johnson used personification to show they were scared. “If it looks like we were scared to death, like a couple of kids just trying to save each other”. Johnson is showing that they were terrified like kids trying to save each other from someone trying to hurt them. He is comparing being scared to kids trying to safe each other because kids do not hand thing like that as an adult would.
The author uses a hyperbole to show that 1943 was not a good year because the winter was so cold. “In the middle of hell in 1943. In the winter time, you can almost see my breath”. He is using a hyperbole because he is over exaggerating that the wintertime was so miserable it felt like they were in hell. Johnson also uses imagery because he uses a human characteristic to explain how cold it was out.
Imagery is used show that it was beautiful day out with is grandma. “This is my favorite one. This is me and grandma in the summer sun. All dressed up the day we said out vows. You can’t tell it here but it was hot that June and that the rose was red and her eyes were blue”. He is using imagery here because he is explaining how it was a great day being with his grandma with the sun shining. Johnson also uses alliteration by saying “summer sun”. This is a alliteration because summer and sun both have the same sounding