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Summary Of Green Chile By Jimmy Santiago Baca

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Jimmy Santiago Baca’s poem, “Green Chile,” is in the first person because the poem that is being told is from his life experience and he uses words like I and my. The title of the poem is Green Chile because Santiago’s grandmother loves green chile. Although Jimmy loves red chile, when he goes to his grandmother's house he eats the green chile that she makes even though if he prefers red chile instead of the green chile. The reason being is because for the family you sacrifice the things you love for them. There were different poetic devices used throughout the poem. A simile was used in line 15 and 16 stanzas 2 Jimmy stared that,“its bearing magnificent and taunt as flanks of a tiger in mid-leap.” Another device used multiple times were

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