Summary Of Oranges By Gary Soto

Indirect Characterization is when the author describes the character's personality by the characters speech, actions, appearance, etc. Gary Soto does that alot. In the short story ¨Broken Chain” he describes Alfonso as he was very kind. He wanted to take a girl bike riding but while he was making his bike look good , his chain snapped in two. Then his brother gave him his bike after he got done catching frogs. Alfonso ask the girl if she wanted to ride on his handlebars.

Within the poem “Oranges” composed by Gary Soto, it discusses the story of a boy and the evolution of young love. The poem begins with the boy walking to the girl’s house and nothing but a nickel and two oranges are in his pockets on a cold December day. Once arriving at her house, they stroll alongside each other to the drugstore, where he then tells her to choose any chocolate bar of her preference. He leaves himself vulnerable, as he only had money for half the chocolate bar and therefore gives the saleslady an orange as payment for the rest of it. They then leave the store and through time become more confident and accepting of love.

First and foremost, Willa Cather and Mary Austin both employ beautiful imagery in their writings to recreate the landscape of the story they are telling, which heightens the understanding and appreciation for their writings. Their use of imagery is specific to appealing to their audience’s visual senses. In My Antonia, for example, Willa Cather describes the landscape at a particular moment by saying, “One afternoon we were having our reading lessons on the warm, grassy bank where the badger lived. It was a day of amber sunlight, but there was a shiver of coming winter in the air. I had seen ice on the little horsepond that morning, and as we went through the garden we found tall asparagus, with its red berries, lying on the ground, a mass of slimy green” (Cather 29). My Antonia has these descriptive passages throughout it, which enables the reader to feel part of the book. Likewise, Mary Austin’s The Land of Little Rain also utilizes imagery: Mary Austin says, “the mountains are steep and the rains are heavy, the pool is

In Tim O’brien’s novel, The Things They Carried, O’brien connects with the reader’s emotion. which allows one to feel the same feelings as the characters in the novel. The Things They Carried, not only pulls on the reader’s emotion by context, but also through rhetorical strategies. O’Brien’s novel discusses the tragedies of the war in a way so differently than most other works of fiction. O’brien employs vivid imagery, strong anaphora, and thought provoking metaphors to develop an emotional connection with the reader, but to also cause the audience to feel the emotions of the characters throughout O’brien’s novel.

The short story “oranges” by Gary Soto focuses on feelings and thoughts of an adolescent boy who is about to meet up with a girl.He is also having his first date causing him to be full of nerves and apprehension but the two oranges he has in his pocket help offset the cold winter and his inner fear.One of the themes present in the short poem is that “sacrifice is essential for love to flourish”.The main character decided that he would go out and pick his date up and head over to a drug store and allow her to buy anything she wanted in order to fulfil his happiness.As they entered the drug store they headed “Down a narrow aisle of goods.[and] turned to the candies”(Soto,1)as they headed over to the counter to pay the bar costed too much he “didn’t

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.

The name of the poem "Oranges" came from the story. Gary Soto wrote this poem and the reason he writes poems is because Gary Soto finds them calm and relaxing. The conflict in this poem is the struggle of a young boy who goes on his first date with a girl. Poems can be enhanced by using symbols by creating a expression. The author uses two symbols to enhance his poem; the two symbols are "Hope", and "Young love".

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 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.

A man recalled the first time he walked with a girl and the innocent young love that ensued in Gary Soto’s narrative poem “Oranges.” Over the course of the the date, the narrator battles the December cold, nervousness, and an unexpected conflict in order to impress a girl, find love, and victoriously “[Make] a fire in [his] hands.” The poem begins with the “cold” and “weighted down” young boy traveling to meet the girl, his “breath before him” as he walked. This is just the beginning of the contrast that would continue throughout the entire narrative.

In “blue + yellow” imagery is also used to describe how Clair is acting in the scene where she is looking at the picture being painted by George. Clair believes the picture is of her, and the author uses very descriptive language to give the reader an image in their head about what Clair sees, for example “She looks at her own hand, turns it in the light, and bends her fingers into the same position”(Chris Killen P105). The author just like in “the story of an hour” is using imagery to make it clear how Clair is reacting to what she is experiencing with her loved one just as Mrs. Mallard was. These two stories are similar in the way the authors use imagery to express one of the characters love for their significant other in the story.

The author uses imagery to interest the reader in her story that may seem mundane without the imagery. An example of this happening is when Jeannette is going to her new school in Welch it was her first day and the teacher picks on her because she did not have to give the school her records to her not having them as that is happening a tall girl stabs her out of nowhere“I felt something sharp and painful between my shoulder blades and turned around. The tall black girl with the almond eyes was sitting at the desk behind me.

A descriptive word that creates a vivid image in one’s mind is imagery. Imagery is used in all different forms of literature like short stories, dramas, and poems. Words or phrases that use imagery can describe the senses such as sight, taste, or even smell. Poets use imagery in their poems as it helps readers connect to the poem. Readers can create their own personal images and pictures in their head with the assistance of imagery. Imagery also has readers look at and analyze poems through their own individual experiences with the imagery used. Imagery can also set the mood for a poem. If words like “sunny” or “soft” are used in a poem they’d set a happy mood, but if words like “rainy” or “foggy” are used they’d set a sad mood. “The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot uses plenty of imagery to give readers insight as to what exactly the speaker sees and feels. The speaker in the poem takes what seems to be the woman he loves on a walk through, what he describes, “streets that follow like a tedious argument/ of insidious intent” (Eliot 759). The imagery that the speaker uses to describe the street is strange because instead of taking the woman he loves through a romantic and nice street, he describes the street as an argument, which is something that can be annoying,

Examples: After Apple-Picking - Essence of winter sleep in on the night, the scent of apples Note: just the mention of "the scent of apples" does not make it an image, but when connected to "essence of winter sleep" the scent gains vividness.