Parents and children often don't see eye to eye. In both "The Jacket" by Gary Soto, and "Shoes for the Rest of My Life" by Duenas, both authors show how childhood memories can be bad and affect us forever. In both passages the authors use conflict to express these problems. In the "Jacket" the narrator is upset when he discovers his mother has bought him the exact opposite jacket than he wanted. He feels that this ugly jacket changes his life. No one likes him anymore, he starts failing tests, and girls will not come near him at all. He internalizes this jacket and sees it as a person or brother that will not leave him alone and ruins his childhood for years. In the end he realizes it is a part of him, for better or worse and the conflict in a way changes him for the better.
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Parents and children often don't see eye to eye. In both "The Jacket" by Gary Soto, and "Shoes for the Rest of My Life" by Duenas, both authors show how childhood memories can be bad and affect us forever. In both passages the authors use conflict to express these problems.
In the "Jacket" the narrator is upset when he discovers his mother has bought him the exact opposite jacket than he wanted. He feels that this ugly jacket changes his life. No one likes him anymore, he starts failing tests, and girls will not come near him at all. He internalizes this jacket and sees it as a person or brother that will not leave him alone and ruins his childhood for years. In the end he realizes it is a part of him, for better or worse and the conflict in a way changes him for the better.
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