Looking For Work Gary Soto

Gary soto s reflections on his childhood efforts of improving his working class family are humorous and entertaining yet show the flaws in the era of the family.

Looking for work gary soto.

Gary soto s looking for work one july while killing ants on the kitchen sink with a rolled newspaper i had a nine year old s vision of wealth that would save us from ourselves. He grew up in fresno california and has published several volumes of poetry as well as essays and prose memoirs. He did a few errands and earns about a quarter. Gary comes from a non nuclear mexican american family that although they seem to have a good connection towards each other they are not as supportive to one another.

He gets this idea during summer and sets out around the neighborhood looking for small jobs. Soto was a young people s ambassador for the united farm workers of america introducing young people to the organization s work and goals. In looking for work author gary soto recalls his failed childhood attempt to assimilate his working class mexican american family to the idealized white families shown on television sitcoms like the cleavers of leave it to beaver and the andersons of father knows best. Gary soto s looking for work in rereading america tells the story of himself as a 9 year old hispanic child who wants his family to be more like the traditional nuclear family that he sees on tv.

Gary soto s looking for work gary soto s looking for work gary soto is a professor of english at uc berkeley. Looking for work a reader s response. His early failure reminds us that american families are complicated. Soto lives in northern california dividing his time between berkeley and fresno but is no longer teaching.

Looking for work by gary soto analysis gary is a nine year old who had a different perspective of a normal life. English 110124th march 2020 looking for work by gary sotowhy is the narrator attracted to the kind of family life depicted on television. Soto became the sponsor for the pattonville high school spanish national honor society in 2009. Looking for work appeared in living up the street.

Looking for work by gary soto. This story takes place in the industrial side of fresno. For weeks i had drunk kool aid and watched morning reruns of father knows best whose family was so.