The Jacket

The Jacket is a short story in the book "Coming of Age in America" by Gary Soto. The story is told by a Mexican-American, who's mother bought him an ugly green jacket. The story talks about the ugly green jacket he had to to wear for two years, his fifth and sixth grade year. The story tells the tale about the jacket the boy had to live with for years, and the embarrassment and teasing he had to endure because of it. There were many times in the book where the boy tried to throw the jacket away, but it kept coming back. The boy kept the jacket to please his mother, even though he cried over it, because he wanted a leather jacket. He was always upset because his mother had such a bad taste in jacket. There wasn't much that I didn't like from the book, because it was so short. Because it was so short, only four pages, I don't think that it would be a very good story to use later on.