Gary Soto Essay -- essays research papers

Throughout the autobiographical yarn written by Gary Soto, galore(postnominal) different literary elements are employ to recreate the experience of his guilty six-year old self. Different elements such as contrast, repetition, pacing, diction, and imagery. Soto narrates this written report as a young boy at a time when he seems to be young and foolish, Soto foolmaking mistakes, simply at the equivalent time hoping to learn from them. Soto uses each of these devices to convey different occurrences in the narrative. distinguish 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 hell to stop me from stealing, but later in the story he states that, the best amours in carriage 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 mom who all knew that he had stolen the pie. The thing is knew is repeated too many times in too particular writing. Also though I think utilise 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 paranoiac Soto was. The word pie is at least 14 times while I is also used at least 42 where in the tierce paragraph it is used to begin the last three sentences. Next, was the element of pacing and in the third par...