Theme Of Oranges By Gary Soto

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.

In “A Bag of Oranges” Nikos starts out as an imaginative young boy and changes to a person who has to take on the burden of taking care of his family. In the beginning he follows his father around on his daily tasks and sees things more as an adventure than work. “He held a blue cloth sack tightly; his father walking briskly ahead carried three others. Skip stepping, the ten-year-old tried to keep up with his father’s long stride.” (216) Nikos follows his father because he wants to eventually be like his father. Towards the end when Nikos realizes that his father is badly injured, he realizes that he has to be the man of the house now just like his father was. Which is why he went and chased after the man that stole the orange because that

The poems “Oranges” by Gary Soto and Pamela Moore’s “First Kiss” share many common elements. I will examine comparable attributes of these poems such as the correlation between love and warmth or light and the poet’s ability to encourage the reader to re-experience events in their own lives. These poems also share many commonalities in their settings which are cold and wintery. The poems also offer a contrasting point of view in the different genders, ages and transitional phases the speakers are going through. The diction by the authors is also quite different. Perhaps “First Kiss” and “Oranges” can lend us insight into the multifaceted world of adolescent love.

Plato, a well-known Greek philosopher, once said, “Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history”. The “vital truth” is exactly what poets Muriel Rukeyser and Luisa Igloria both intend to show through their poetries, “Ballad of Orange and Grape” and “Dis-Orient”. However, though the two fulfill their intentions with poetries, they employ separate techniques. Rukeyser, (1913-1980), was an American poet and political activist. Her poetry was most often regarding topics such as social justice, feminism, and equality. Rukeyser’s poem, “Ballad of Orange and Grape” was published in her 1973 collection, Breaking Open. This poem depicts the ill effects of illiteracy she witnesses in East Harlem. Through this depiction, Rukeyser indirectly pleads to her literate readers to somehow change the harsh conditions that she mentions. Igloria, on the

‘’The boy from Ipanema’’ is an indie romantic Korean film directed and written by Kim Kih-hoon and it’s placed in Busan in South Korea and in Sapporo in Japan. In the film stars the model/actor Lee Soo-hyuk as the boy whose name is never mentioned in the film and actress Kim Min-ji as the girl who also stayed unnamed for all the duration of the film. Is worth to mention that ‘’The boy from Ipanema’’ has received the Audience Critic’s Award and the Movie Collage Award at the 2010 (11th) Jeonju International Film Festival.

The first integral theme of the story is, if you love someone, you’d do anything to make them happy. One way this theme is shown is when, Mr. Peters wished for a wife. Mr. Peters, “knew that it was hopeless and [Leita] would never be happy.” Over time, it was evident to Mr. Peters that Leita was miserable and wasn’t ever going to be content if she continued to live as a human. Turning into a human has separated her from her sister causing her to be depressed with this new life. Leita’s depression was the cause of Mr. Peters being in a state of mind, where he would do anything to make her jovial. Her being dejected led Mr. Peters to, “[take] another leaf from his notecase, [blow] it out of the window, and [use] up his second wish.” Mr. Peters

Peeling Oranges As a little kid, I asked for help, wanted to peel an orange by myself, but earnestly urged mama to do so. Silently I grew up uncertain of who I was, identified with nothing and obliged to believe that my name meant something.

“The Osage Orange Tree” was written by William Stafford. Throughout this short story, two main protagonist include of a young female high school student named Evangeline, and a young male high school student which who narrates this beloved story. There are three key events that that show Evangeline’s crazy but affectionate acts towards the narrator. Evangeline buys newspapers to see the narrator, acts clingy, and meets up at an orange tree with the narrator. Which the tree is symbolic for protection, keeping her actions apart from her parents. Although there are consequences for certain actions, some can act out with crazy but affectionate acts.

Throughout cinema history, it has been no hidden secret that film makers are not strangers to making movie adaptions of noteworthy books. The case is no different in terms of the novel Clockwork Orange, written in 1962, which would later be adapted into a moving by Stanley Kubrick that would be released in 1971. While the two share the same story, each actually shape the story in their own, unique way. In the novel Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, different meanings encompassing themes of violence and control are portrayed through the book in relation to its movie counterpart A Clockwork Orange by Stanley Kubrick, which are best reflected through the changes that were made in the main plot between the movie and the book, the differences

As a final note, Tropic of Orange demonstrated many aspects of life by exposing language, morals, and truth throughout the novel. This is what gave the novel a form of realism between characters, and most importantly, the city of Los Angeles (38). On one hand, the novel can be viewed as an example of magical realism. On the other hand, it also included a lot of examples of postmodernism which made it difficult to label it as one of the other. Given these points, Los Angeles started to represent this land of opportunity and fame throughout the novel. In addition to this, each character took something different away from their home. This also resulted in the characters having different viewpoints as well. In the long run, the root of unreliability

In Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange many things are important to what shapes the new society. The most important thing, however, is music. Music evokes different reactions from different people, and drives them to commit various acts throughout the novel. Music is spoken of in all parts of the novel, and the novel is even written like a piece of music.

Following the death of her father in 1904, Vanessa Bell uprooted herself and her three siblings, Thoby, Adrian and Virginia from their childhood home in Hyde Park to 46 Gordon Square in London’s Bloomsbury district. It was at 46 Gordon Square that a new way of life and art would begin for the young artist at the age of twenty-five. Describing Bell’s abandonment of their childhood home and her role as a Victorian “mistress of the house,” her sister Virginia wrote: “She had sold, she had burnt; she had sorted; she had torn up. Sometimes I believe she had actually to get men with hammers to batter down- so wedged into each other had the walls and the cabinets

It was a hot summer day in the year 2011. Everyone is walkin’ around with popsicles, ice cream, and cold refreshments. Then, there is me, with a warm bottle of water and a bag of hot cheetos I dreadfully regretted buying. I thought, this must be how my story ends, but just as i had given up hope, my younger brother walks by with a cold sprite! The moment he leaves it i dash over faster than you could say the word pop, and snatched up the can. Just as i took my first couple sips, i seemed to have been caught in a daze. Because after what seemed like the shortest 20 seconds ever before, i drop the can. Yes drop. The sprite splashes all over the sidewalk and makes a big crash. My little brother yells at me for spilling his soda but i ignore him, staring in astonishment at what was supposed to be my big break. You know what they say, “ What goes around comes around” or maybe you know it as “You get what you deserve” and for you really frisky people, you can probably identify it as “Karma's a *****”. Either way, i think the main theme that plays out in the story A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess is that karma is always watching. A Clockwork Orange is about a man named Alex Delarge, who is a teen (around sixteen or seventeen) that is the head of a four man gang in a future England setting. Due to his lack of leadership skills, his buddies turn on him and abandon him as he is apprehended by authorities. While in prison, he is put into a prototype hypnosis program called the

As a catholic writer, Greene stands for Catholicism with its spiritual concept inside the individual. In The power and the glory, he criticizes the ideological authorities, the church and the Marxist government, which create anger and tension in the world at the expense of people’s need for spiritual comfort which they find only in religion. From an objective perspective, Greene presents the reality of the two authorities; the church with its pride and deception, and the Marxist government with its violence and coldness. Both carry noble aims, but when it comes to application, corruption prevails, and nothing is left to hold on but religion.