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Gary Soto The Jacket Essay

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Literacy Essay: “The Jacket” By Gary Soto By: Shium M. Turning into an adult can be scary. Everyone goes through a stage when you’re a teen, that make them miserable, but prepared! Well, Gary Soto, from “The Jacket”, goes through this phase with an ugly jacket and experiences a disconsolate life at school. That jacket really affected him and here is how. All the torment and stress of school started when he first wore it. His attitude from the beginning of the story to the end was quite different, and he remembered it for years after it broke. First, the book “The Jacket” is a personal narrative book about a boy who receives a cheap jacket from his mom. At school; he got picked on more often, was gossiped about and didn’t do well in school. Towards the end of the story, he became a whole new person and stayed like that way after it broke. As stated in the claim, All the torment and stress of school started when he first wore it. In paragraph 6-9 [of the book “The Jacket” of course]. He is made fun of from his classmates, he was bullied by the bully “Frankie the school terrorist (two)” more often. He started to be the center of gossip for …show more content…

Gary would act very different if you noticed his attitude from the beginning and the end of the story. In the beginning, Gary was a young and innocent child that would never let out his true anger on his siblings. He would deal with his cheap mom as mentioned on page one. The minute he got the jacket he even says in the text “I stared at that thing, like an enemy, thinking bad things. Towards the end, he made the change into a teenager. He was confused and wanted to be alone. He talks back to his sibling. Argue with his mom. Complained and called his jacket “an ugly green brother” referring to the fact that a brother will always be there and hover over him much like the jacket and he could be ugly just like the jacket. The jacket is shaping Gary’s

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