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Repsonse to a Gary Soto poem

Writing Project #2: Response in Parts to “Drinking in the Sixties” From Gary Soto’s New and Selected Poems.

The speaker thinks that drinking make you popular and makes friends if you laugh while drinking. The speaker notices the smallest things his teachers do that makes them look drunk. It seems as if drinking was a big thing to him hoping it would make him popular. He’s sees the teachers drunk and the Cheerleaders, there important and popular and they looked like they were drunk so if he drank and got drunk maybe he could be popular too.

Here it makes me think that the speake

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They are still yelling out the window at people. It seems as if there do all they can to be popular. They would yell out the window at people walking by, like they were scared someone would find out that there drinking alone.

Part 3: Lines 27-37

The speaker and his friend talk are still drinking and talking about nothing. r and his friend are not very popular they are at an abandoned house with a quart of beer and it’s just them no one else.

Part 4: Lines 38-46

They are still making a mess of the already messed up house, pulling things off the wall, kicking kitchen appliances, and cutting up the couch. They decide to go outside and lay in the leaves to cool off and think about more important things then being popular. They talk about the oddest thinks that you usually don’t talk about. The house is torn apart and a total mess. But they go there anyway just to drink. They think of school and what the teachers looked like and how the cheerleaders used to act.

Part 5: Lines 47-

They are thinking about how the teachers used to be. The speaker is hitting the wall with a board and kicking old moldy oranges around. They seem to not be having that much fun; his friend is bending a wire hanger into funny shapes.

Approximate Word count = 426
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)

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