Gary Soto Essay -- essays research papers

Throughout the autobiographical narrative written by Gary Soto, many dissimilar literary elements are used to recreate the experience of his guilty six-year hoary self. Different elements such as line of descent, repetition, pacing, verbalism, and imagery. Soto narrates this story as a progeny boy at a time when he seems to be new-fashioned and foolish, Soto foolmaking mistakes, but at the same time hoping to learn from them. Soto uses each of these devices to persuade different occurrences in the narrative.Contrast is used when Soto compares himself to Eve, a biblical character, when god punished her for stealing an apple from a sacred garden. Also in the first line of the story Soto explains he knew enough about endocarp to stop me from stealing, but later in the story he states that, the best things in life come stolen. It is obvious these two statements contrast each other. Soto also uses repetition in this story and starts off with the driver, Mrs. Hancock, and his mo mma who all knew that he had stolen the pie. The thing is knew is repeated too many measure in too little writing. Also though I believe using knew so many times brings out the element of diction into the narrative because by using the word so many times, it is obviously used to show how paranoid Soto was. The word pie is at least(prenominal) 14 times while I is also used at least 42 where in the third paragraph it is used to begin the put out three sentences. Next, was the element of pacing and in the third par...