In the passage, “The Jacket” by Gary Soto, Gary writes about a boy with an awful jacket that he despises. The passage uses literary elements to develop a theme to the story. Soto’s theme was to appreciate what you have. He used symbols, the plot and characters to display the theme. First,the symbol in “The Jacket” supports the overarching theme: Appreciate what you have. In fact, the boy with the jacket despised his jacket, “...that jacket, which had become the ugly brother who tagged along wherever I went.”He compares the jacket to an ugly brother. He says that since he has to wear the jacket and he cant get a new one for awhile it is like a brother that never leaves you alone and follows you. Yet later on he eventually gets use to it.” The teachers were no help: they looked my way and talked about how foolish I looked in my new jacket.”He talks about how the jacket causes him to be embarrassed. People laughed at him and talked about him behind their backs. Making him feel really embarrassed.…show more content… The plot is the who, what, when and where to the story.“When it became so spotted that my brother started calling me ‘camouflage,’ I flung it over the fence into the alley. Later, however, I swiped the jacket off the ground and went inside to drape it across my lap and mope.”The boy, whenever he gets mad, goes to the alley to think. He was really upset so he went outside to throw the jacket. But later went to get it because he felt guilty.“ I discovered draped on my bedpost a jacket the color of day-old guacamole.” The sight of the jacket was the rising action.When he seen it that's when the conflict started. He hated it at sight he hints with his
