Analysis Of Oranges By Gary Soto

In the poem, “Oranges” by Gary Soto, he talks about a cold day walking with a girl for the first time and they went to a drugstore and the boy wanted to give her a chocolate bar but he didn’t have enough money. So, he put down one orange that he had and a nickel on the counter. The lady knew what was going on so he let him have it. If I was the boy’s girlfriend, I would be pleased because he is doing whatever he can the chocolate bar to her. For example, the boy only had a nickel when the chocolate bar costs a dime. He didn’t want to leave without giving her the chocolate bar to her because he didn’t have enough money so he took out a orange and a nickel and put it on the counter. That shows his kindness and effort to giving her the chocolate bar. Another example

Growing up with timidity and when don’t have love. Gary soto incorporates internal and external dialogue into his stories “broken chain”, “seventh grade” and the narrative poem “oranges’’. The main idea of these passages is that the main characters have insecurity, immaturity and looking for acceptance. The characters are not confident enough to go talk to the girl. An example that means that is that they shy and don't have enough “guts’’ to talk the girl. Soto creates character with similar personality by using dialogue to reveal that the males in the story and poem all share one thing in common. They all have a girl they like.

Angela McEwan-Alvarado was born in Los Angeles and has lived in many locations in the United States, as well as Mexico and Central America. She obtained her master’s degree at UC Irvine and since then has worked as an editor of educative materials and a translator. The story “Oranges” was the result of an exercise for a writer’s workshop in which the author managed to mix images and experiences accumulated throughout her life.

Gary Soto was born April 12, 1952, in Fresno, California to Mexican-American parents. His grandparents emigrated from Mexico during the Great Depression and found jobs as farm laborers. Soto grew up poor in the San Joaquin Valley and learned that hard work pays off through chores, such as moving lawns, picking grapes, painting houses, and washing cars.

The two men could connect with that due to the emotions they carry for the memories that are passing them by. The poems also have rhyme schemes, which is the way the author choose to write the poem.

A sacrifice is when someone gives up something very important to them, whether it’s a physical item or a mental idea, for something greater than their wants or desires. Sacrificing something is never easy. It is usually something very valuable, personal, or time- consuming. Both stories “Oranges” by Gary Soto and “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant” by W.D. Weatherall have a common theme of sacrifice in them.

The poem Oranges by Gary Soto is about love, the weather, and light and dark. In the first to lines Gary recalls his first date with his middle school sweetheart. Gary goes to her house and picks her up and they go to the drugstore. Gary tells his girl that he’ll pay for whatever she gets and she decides to get a candy that cost ten cents. Gary is in a predicament now because he only has a nickel and chocolate cost a dime but with his quick wit he thinks of a way to pay for it. When they get to the cashier Gary hands them a nickel and an orange and he got the chocolate, after that his girl held his hand for two blocks.

significance of this section in the poem is the underlying relationship between what the narrater

The mood is melancholy that allows the reader to emotionally connect to the poem, and the ability to relate to either

The first time the oranges are introduced, the narrator simply tells you that he is "Weighed down with two oranges in my jacket". The bright image and color of the oranges immediately begins to infuse light, happiness, and love into the scene by contrasting with the cold, frosty December atmosphere. The oranges have the ability to do this because of a connotative connection with the bright color of the oranges and light. Later, the narrator notices that the girl's porch light is always on despite the weather or the time of day. This image again brings up light that in turn reflects back to the brightness of the oranges. Then the girl appears, "Pulling at her gloves, face bright with rouge". The bright rouge color in her face links her with the oranges and their light, as well. Every image that includes light adds to the growing feeling of love and warmth within the dreary surroundings, because love and warmth are most often associated with light and happiness. This everlasting light reappears again and again throughout the poem shown through light in the girl's eyes, her smile, and the way the orange looks like fire in the boy's hands. Every contrasting image of light is linked to another and continuously intensifies the growing feeling of young love and happiness.

In the poem, “Oranges,” Gary Soto uses the symbolism of the oranges to emphasize the theme of love that he has for this girl as well as the theme of sacrifice. It was his first time on a date and he was already prepared as he was “weighted down with two oranges in [his] jacket,” and later when the girl wanted a chocolate bar, he didn’t have enough money, so he sacrificed one of his oranges and a nickel “and set them quietly on the counter.” Based on the fact the he had two oranges in his pocket, the reader can assume that he had planned to give her one so that they could enjoy them together. Considering the importance that the oranges held in his mind though, he loved her enough to sacrifice his plans in order to fulfill her desires and show

In the poem, Oranges, by Gary Soto, the orange represents something in your life that is holding you down, that you can use to your advantage, even get something better with it. The orange might originally be something that is holding you down because the poem states, "Cold, and weighted down / With two oranges in my jacket." The weight that the boy is carrying definitely pertains to the oranges, and the fact that it was associated with the cold must mean that it is weighing him down negatively. Later in the poem, though, it states, "I took the nickel from / My pocket, then an orange, / and set them quietly on / The counter..." This shows how the orange that was once a weight could be used to buy something for someone he cared about. Also,

The old lady "shouting to the neighborhood her goodness and his wrongs "(3) tells me that the lady does not want people to think that she is beating the boy for no reason; the lady wants the on-lookers to know that she is in the right and the boy has done wrong. Likewise, the poem "Who Hurt You So" also has a sympathetic attitude and reflects of terrible things that have happened in the past. When reading you feel as if the narrator really loves the person they are talking about but that person was badly hurt in the past and has built up a wall that does not let anyone in but the narrator wants to be the one to break down that wall and love the person. These poems can also be compared by their shifts in the poem. Wether it is from one memory to another or one emotion to another rarely does a poem begin and end in the same poetic experience. "The Whipping" starts with the narrator witnessing a boy being beaten which then brings back bad memories of the past. The poem shows that the narrator was beaten as a child as well. When he says" the face that I no longer knew or loved"(18) it means that the person who beat the

The first paragraph tell how her love is strong and she’s not lost in him, but she wants to be. The second paragraph jumps sides and presents a happier tone to the story. By using words such as love, beautiful, and bright, she livens up the mood by saying he loves her and she finds him beautiful and bright, but she still longs to be lost.

The lines “I embrace the scenery. I embrace us.” This creates an image of the poet reminiscing in love, absorbing her surroundings and partner passionately. A line that stood out for its intense imagery was “And as you stand there looking at me like the first time, as every time.” As these lines reflect on her partner always looking at her with love struck eyes, it paints a picture of the couple, as if you could imagine the way he would drift away just looking at her. This gives the reader an insight to the bond and passion the couple has. In the last stanza after the shift is clearly demonstrated the poet express her yearning to be with her partner in the lines “The feeling of familiarity is here, but the desire to be with you is vast.” this line creates deep imagery in which the true meaning of the poem emerges, you start to piece together all the stanzas to conclude with this longing for her loved one. This line ties in with the tone going from refinishing in love to reflecting on her desire to be with him and have their paths connect into