Summary Of One Last Time By Gary Soto

In “One Last Time,” Gary Soto talks about how he grew up in an immigrant family, and to make money his family had to work in the fields picking grapes, oranges, plums, peaches and cotton. Soto seems to have a negative attitude towards field work he finds it tiresome and boring. And finds himself daydreaming to escape boredom because he felt boredom was a terror and as awful as the work itself (Soto 42). When Soto was fifteen years old he rejects field work and states “I’d rather wear old clothes than stoop like a Mexican (Soto 43). However he changes his mind because he needs to earn money to buy new clothes. So that spring him and his friend Rick decides to take a labor bus to chop