Theme Of Stealing A Pie Gary Soto

Gary Soto has created a piece of writing that shows his six-year-old self and his fear of both hell and people judging him. As he is eating the pie he goes through many emotions and sees many things that cause him to feel even more guilty. By using imagery, as well as repetition, contrast, and diction, Gary Soto creates his younger self’s guilt of stealing a pie. Furthermore, when reading about Gary’s debacle and adventure of stealing a pie he demonstrates his experience through contrast. Looking through the pieces of writing Gary in the beginning uses phrases such as “window of light” and “warm air” to describe what it feels like during stealing the pie and eating it. As shown in the beginning his six-year-old self saw that in the heat of

Consequently, the readers start to notice more and more repetitive things, such as the “angels” in paragraphs one, two, and nine. Gary depicts these angels following him as “shadows” and never actually saying what they look like. They are the watchers, watching his every move and making him think about his decisions and the people he is affecting. They are there to make sure that if he is one toe out of line, everyone will know. There is also the recurrence of the Christianity theme throughout that relates to the angels as well. Gary talked about “heaven and hell” as well as “Adam and Eve” and their expulsion into the desert He[Gary] is more scared of being thirsty and being judged than a plethora of other things. He is so worried about going to hell because of a minuscule thing that he did. Which shows the innocence of a child perfectly in the

When Gary uses phrases such as “[the pie tin] glared at me” plus “cavern of my mouth” sho the mystical mind of a six-year-old. Howbeit the reader can take a look into his mind and see and imagine what it must have been seen as by an outsider. Including the connotations of it all, it’s as if the pie is judging him along with the neighbors and the angels. The caverns are him and he is the dark that he is afraid of, and the pie will never get away from him. The guilt of stealing and eating the pie will stay with him forever. More phrases such as “bathed with jam” and “perfumed the air” make the writing more multi-dimensional. Bathed in jam is a pretty gross description but it does make the reader think of an almost perfect image. When a burp is perfumed it seems like it has a color to it and makes it its own being. As well as making the two a qualified match in the same