Gary Soto The Jacket Analysis

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The affect the jacket has on the author’s life by, in the story “The Jacket” by Gary Soto got a Jacket that’s was the guacamole color and he did not like it, but he knew he would have to have it for some years because it was big. Everybody ignored him and didn’t pay attention to him, only the people who also has a bad jacket. The girls would hang out with the boys who had neat jackets and not the ones who did not. He wanted a jacket that was like a bikers jacket, black leather with silver studs but what he got was a as they described it as “day-old guacamole color.” I found all this on paragraph two “ The next day when I got home from school, I discovered draped on my bedpost a jacket the color of day-old guacamole. I threw my books on my

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