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Summary Of A Summer Life By Gary Soto

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The following essay, "A Summer Life", Gary Soto expresses his guilty and impure lifestyle as a six-year-old boy. Soto uses many literary devices during his recreation of an experience he had as a boy to show his guilt and regret; furthermore, he also exemplifies the joy and thrill that his younger self-believed. Soto's use of diction expresses the evils inside him as a six-year-old; though, he uses the device also to show his guilt now as an adult. He wasn't sinful all the time he was driven to it. Soto was "holy in almost every bone" he knew the evils of sinning; however, " boredom and the only solution for it was to steal. After his sinful duty he comes to a realization of his actions. When he finished the pie "tears blurred his eyes" as

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