Well I just finish reading the "Loooking for work" by Gary Soto, and it was great. Soto is a good writer and expresses how he feels a family should be. He wants his family to be like the families he sees on t.v, he compares it to sitcom' like "Leave it to Beaver". Soto says in his essay "This was the summer when I spent the morning in front of the televesion that showed th comfortable lives of white kids". After reading that line, I thought to myself does he really want his family to be like tv families, or is he just wishing that his family was perfect ?
I think he is happy with his normal Mexican- American family but sometimes feels they should be different. Even I sometimes wish my family came out of the tv, but thats not going to happen, so I'm happy. Many families may have their ups and downs but you still love them no matter what. I think television had an influence on Gary Soto and that's cool because it makes life a little more interesting.
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