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Gary Soto's Poem Mexicans Begin Beging

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In the poem “ Mexicans Begin Jogging” the author, Gary Soto, provides a very clear image of the struggle to find where he belongs. He talks both about being apart of both Hispanic and American culture. Although he is a legal citizen in the U.S he is treated like an illegal immigrant due to his outward appearance. In the poem Garry Soto does an excellent job expressing the feelings and situations throughout the poem using different literary devices. While he uses imagery to show the difficult conditions that he endured, “At the factory I worked in the fleck of the rubber, under the press of an oven yellow with flame”, however he is still an American citizen. His boss uses phrases like, “until the border patrol opened their vans” or “Over
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