Ice Cream Truck

Hannah Williamson
Professor Stephens
ENGL 1020-W01 Word Count: 786
31 March 2023
Ice Cream Treats
Ice Cream is a dessert that almost everyone enjoys eating. “The Ice-Cream Truck,” written by Andrew Hudgins, talks about his journey as a kid getting ice cream from the ice cream truck. The poem is told in the first person as him as an adult. Hudgins tells this journey through alot of literary devices. In Hudgin’s poem “The Ice-Cream Truck,” he uses imagery, tone, word choice, end rhyme, and end stop to reveal how stealing may not garner the result of obtaining the desire.
In the poem, Hudgins uses imagery and tone to reveal the theme. One example of imagery would be “I pause” (line 9). He uses this to show his following action to get the ice cream. He then proceeds with “snatch a coin” (9). At this point, the reader’s and author’s tones are shown. The reader’s tone is disrespectful because they can see him steal money from his mom’s purse. The author’s tone is playful because he thinks it is a funny story to tell about himself. Another example is “I won’t be eating” (13). At this point, the audience can see him not eating the ice cream because of his decision. When Hudgins is going

End rhyme is shown in the second and fourth lines of every stanza in this poem. He made the two rhyming words of every stanza be related to one another. One example is “from the bottom of her purse / ignoring Mama’s curse” (10, 12). He uses the words “purse” and “curse” to show that if this little kid steals money from his mom’s purse, then he will suffer consequences. Another example would be, “Then see I won’t be eating. / and trudge home to my beating.” (14, 16). Hudgins uses the words “eating” and “beating” to show that the little kid is about to get punished when he gets home. These quotations also connect as a whole to the theme because they will show people that sometimes certain situations won’t always go the way they want it