What Does Jose Symbolize In Born Worker By Gary Soto

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Throughout the story “Born Worker”by Gary Soto, the character Jose evolves the most. In the beginning Jose is a baby who just looked like a worker because in paragraph 1 page 66 it states “A ring of dirt around his neck”, or “by the time time he was three, “ his squint was the squint of an aged laborer”. So everybody always described him as a worker and as Jose grew up he became more of this. Also he had convinced himself that he was going to be worker. For example on page 66 line 20 Jose says “felt destined to labor”, Jose said this because he felt he felt he had a life of work ahead of him. Also Jose entire family including his father were workers, so he could foresee that he was going to become one as well.

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