"Oranges" By Gary Soto 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. When Gary was five his father died as the result of a factory accident, and his mother was left to raise her three children with the help of her parents. Soto describes his family as an "illiterate" family. They did not have books and were not encouraged to read. In fact, Gary did not start writing poetry until he was in college. He also is an author of fiction, nonfiction, and picture books. Soto earned an English degree at California State University at Fresno in 1974. He continued his education to earn a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at the University of California at Irvine. While working on his graduate work, Soto married Carolyn Oda, the daughter of Japanese-American farmers. After receiving his master's degree, Soto became writer-in-residence at San Diego State University and a lecturer in Chicano studies at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1977, he became an associate professor in both the Chicano studies and English departments at University of California, Berkeley, where he has been a senior lecturer since 1992. Soto also uses his own boyhood experiences as well as familiar streets in the Central Valley of California on which books and characters are based on. Through the use of color, symbolism and imagery you can see why Gary Soto really entitled the poem "Oranges," and why oranges play such an importa... ... middle of paper ... ...an go on glowing forever. It seems to me that the eternal light is like their relationship will last even though they are still young and have a lot more to go through. In short, oranges represent what their young love feeds off of which are warmth, love and understanding. Soto used imagery and symbolism to make the poem powerful, but what really made it powerful is his use of elements, characters, and the plot. There is a lot of reference to brightness, breathing, and light. Brightness and the light give the poem and the oranges more power, while the heavy breathing makes it seem more realistic because the twelve year old boy is nervous since he is out with his first girlfriend. The poem is very vivid as well as colorful. You can tell what the narrator feels, and even I could identify with him at some points. "Oranges" By Gary Soto Marcin Mogielski
...l Paso, Texas with his third wife. His original residence in New Mexico was burned down in 1994. He then moved to Ciudad Juarez, Mexico and Uruapan, Michoacan where he met his third wife. His memoirs once only available in Spanish in 1978, published by Mexico’s Fondo Cultural Economico was republished in 2000.
De Soto was born somewhere around the year 1500 in Jerez de los Caballeros in Extremadura in what is now Spain (Milanich & Hudson 26). Contemporaries of de Soto would include Cortez, Balboa, and Francisco Pizzaro with whom he would share a great adventure. De Soto's ancestors had been part of the reconquista and as aristocrats many had been knighted for their part in driving the Moors from the Iberian Peninsula (Milanich & Hudson 26). Hernando would have played no part in the expulsion of the Moors; however, family legacy would have played no small part in developing his frame of reference. It is thought that by the time do Soto was fourteen he was on his way to the new world.
After graduating from high school, Javier Cortes decided to become the first person in his family to attend college and started pursuing a Criminal Justice degree at Miami College. His goal was to serve his nation as Naval Officer after obtaining his degree. During his first years at Miami Dade College, he faced several challenges since he was a first-generation student; but he did not let those challenges stop him from achieving his dream and worked hard to obtain a 4.0
	In 1831 he finished his studies, and went to work in a law office. That same year, at age 25 he was elected to the position of city alderman. Then, in 1833 he was elected to the Oaxaca State legislature. Next, in 1834 he became the attorney for the state. Governments changed, as was characteristic in Latin America, and he was thrown in jail. He then was released, and gained support of both Libe...
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Gary Soto, who graduated from high school with a 1.6 GPA, is the author of thirty-two books including eleven poetry collections. Soto was pinned by a girl in a high school wrestling match, so he changed his interest to poetry. Soto's highest honor came from a Southern teacher who named her dog after him. The teacher's dog was, of course, a chihuahua because of Soto's ethnicity. Gary Soto's poetry focuses on his life experiences: notably his love life, and the poverty in his hometown. The first book Soto read was Nerdlandia. Martin, who is a nerd, is heartbroken. Freddie, Tito, and Joaquin, who are gangsters, try to cheer him up. Tito thought Martin was sad because his calculator broke. Next, Soto read a poem called "Oranges." The poem was about
Gary Soto is an American poet, memoirist and a novelist. His works focus on daily experiences, and in most cases, they focus on his life. His works mainly focus on the day-to-day challenges and tribulations of the Spanish-speaking Americans. Having grown neighboring Mexicans, he has been able to borrow from the community to build up incredible writings. Determination, resilience, and patients can all be attributed to the success of Gary Soto who conquered all the challenges to rise the ladder of writing. In fact, Soto is considered an important contemporary author in the US.
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