Looking For Work Gary Soto

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 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. 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. English 110124th march 2020 looking for work by gary sotowhy is the narrator attracted to the kind of family life depicted on television. His early failure reminds us that american families are complicated.

He wants to be the family he sees on tv so that they can blend with otheramerican families. Soto lives in northern california dividing his time between berkeley and fresno but is no longer teaching. 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. 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. Looking for work by gary soto analysis gary is a nine year old who had a different perspective of a normal life. Looking for work appeared in living up the street. Looking for work a reader s response.

He did a few errands and earns about a quarter. Looking for work by gary soto. Summary looking for work by gary soto is a narration of a nine year old boy gary who is a mexican american who wants to become wealthy. Soto became the sponsor for the pattonville high school spanish national honor society in 2009.

Soto was a young people s ambassador for the united farm workers of america introducing young people to the organization s work and goals. He grew up in fresno california and has published several volumes of poetry as well as essays and prose memoirs. The narrator is attracted to the television because it seems to be his main source ofentertainment.