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Gary Soto's Short Story 'The Born Worker'
The Born Worker

I am here to talk to you about what I thought of the story, "The Born Worker". "The Born Worker" is a short story novel written by Gary Soto. Gary Soto was born in 1952 in Fresno, California. He is an author of above twenty books and has won numerous awards for his poetry, short stories, and nonfiction. Much of Gary Soto's writing is focused on the Mexican-American experience. I like how he focuses on the Jose in the beginning as aging quickly and acting way more mature than he should be at his age. At the beginning it was talking about how his parents and him have to work hard for everything that they get. After that Jose parents tell him that his cousin Arnie is coming over. So when Arnie gets there the narrator
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