Springboard 1.6 "The Jacket" Questions Part 1

Springboard 1.5: Analyzing Narratives

Second Read Questions (Part 1)

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Look at the opening sentence. How does the author engage and orient the reader?

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What is the point of view of this text?

From whose perspective is it written?

Multiple Choice

What is the point of view of the story?

• First person

• Second person

• Third person

Multiple Choice

From whose perspective is it written?

• A mother who buys the only jacket she can afford for her son.

• A boy whose family doesn't have much money

• A boy whose brother has an ugly, green jacket.

To show his hatred of his jacket, Soto exaggerates the effect of the jacket on his life. Highlight three of these effects in the text.

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Paragraphs 7, 8, and 9 have especially vivid examples of similes that describe how the narrator is feeling. Highlight three examples. Choose one that you consider especially vivid and explain its effect.

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In the final paragraph of the narrative, Soto uses the following metaphor to describe his jacket:
"...my jacket, that green ugly brother who breathed over my shoulder that day and every day since."
Based on this line, what can you conclude about the significance of the jacket in Soto's life?

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Reread paragraphs 4 and 5, and underline the vivid verbs. Choose two and explain in the margin how the vivid verbs you chose create mental images of the action.

If you change the verbs, how do the images change?

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Reread paragraphs 4 and 5, and underline the vivid verbs. Choose two and explain in the margin how the vivid verbs you chose create mental images of the action.

If you change the verbs, how do the images change?

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