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Summary Of The Border By Gary Soto

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In my original poem “The Border” I attempted to imitate Gary Soto’s work. In my “imitation” I tried to have similar content to Soto’s poems. I talked about what life would be like for a pre-teen Mexican-American that is far away from their extended family similar to how Soto discussed what life was like for a Mexican-American in his poems. I also had a similar style and informal language like Soto to help characterize how a kid would speak. Furthermore, I included a lot of enjambment like Soto because a kid talks in longer sentences. Another attempt I made to imitate Soto’s work was to start the poem by saying “At 12” since many of his poems start by saying the age of the speaker. Additionally, I imitated Soto’s use of the themes of identity
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