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Thesis For The Jacket By Gary Soto

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The Jacket Sometimes in life, there are things that people need to do that they don’t want to. Gary Soto, shows the narrator to accept the things that are given.The book “The Jacket” tell the story about a boy that wears his jacket for a long time and needs a new one. When his mother gets him a jacket, everything turns into bad luck. In this story “The Jacket,” the boy need a new jacket. The boy’s mom finally gets enough money to buy him a jacket but it 's not the jacket he wants. When the boy came home from school he seen the jacket his mom gave and said “This jacket is so ugly im gonna cry”. As he puts the jacket on he rolls the sleeve up and walks downstairs as he’s ready for school. The narrator approaches his mom with a fake smile and

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