The Jacket By Gary Soto Analysis

Gary Soto was born into a poor Mexican American family in Fresno, California. Unfortunately, not everyone can afford expensive clothing. It could be a big disappoint, to not have things that people want to have, especially when they can’t afford it. In “The Jacket”, he focuses on what he had to wear during his middle school years in this case his jacket. He portrays that the jacket, his mom bought him as a failure to him. He realizes that wearing the jacket made him have a rough childhood in school. As a matter of fact, growing up can be difficult because everyone is different. In my case, I remember that I too wore the same jacket for two whole school years in sixth and seventh-grade because my mom felt like I had to follow the dress code for sweaters which had to be blue. Although, I wore that sweater every day, I wouldn’t consider wearing that blue sweater a failure to me because it didn’t fail me to have good grades or great friends, but it did affect me by having some lack of confidence. The

He wore the jacket for many years and he felt that not one good thing happened to him. He had bad thoughts of himself about embarrassment and feeling ashamed because of the jacket. When his brother started to call him “camouflage”, he threw the jacket over a fence into an alley. From that, I feel like he was done with it as if he was finally going to let go of it but he went to grab it and when he went inside he started to mope. From that point, he probably felt all these bad mixed emotions such as frustration towards himself and aggravated towards the jacket. He realizes that the jacket made him become someone he cannot accept as a person. That’s sad because he was highly feeling depressed with all these problems that he couldn’t resolve anymore because it was already done by making one simple decision of wearing that jacket in the first place. As a consequence, he feels that the jacket was a form of destruction to