Style analysis for A summer life by Gary Soto
... At the age of six, we all still have our childhood innocence, but in Gary Soto’s case, he is overtaken by one minute act of sin. ... In A Summer Life, Soto vividly recreates, through the use of, diction, imagery, and repetition, the act of losing one’s innocence at a young age in life. Soto’s tasteful use of words and language devices bring you back and make you feel as if you were there, reliving your childhood experiences. ... Repetition was an immense part of Soto’s telling of one particular incident which has followed him throughout the years. ... Gary Soto keeps on mentioning his sort of safe haven beneath his house. ... At another point in his personal narrative, Gary Soto, brings a tone of paranoia into the reader’s mind. ... Gary Soto does not seem to have trouble expressing his feelings during an incident in which his view of sin is magnified and brought out into the light. ... In Soto’s autobiographical narrative he skillfully recreates a moment in his childhood that has stayed with him through life.