Soto Onomatopoeia

Moreover, Soto uses onomatopoeia in his biographical narrative in order to show his audience that he was given many opportunities to realise that he’s making a great error in judgement but, by the time he realised it the deed was done. To elaborate, before Soto went to the German Market, he had been listening to the howling of the plumbing underneath his house but, he had completely forgot about it and because of that fact he ended up committing a sin. This is shown when in the text it states,“Forgetting the flowery dust priests give off, the shadow of angels and the proximity of God howling in the plumbing underneath the house” (Soto 1). This quote shows in the back of Soto’s head he knew that stealing this pie was a bad idea but, no matter how hard that voice tried to reach him it couldn’t make it in time. In addition to this fact, the onomatopoeia of this quote is shown when it states,“God howling in the plumbing underneath the house”, this represents how God is calling out to Soto, trying to pull him back from his trance but, no matter how loud he cries his voice is out of reach. Furthermore, only after Soto finally realises the sin that he had committed does he hear the voice that had been trying
Furthermore, this shows onomatopoeia using sound to produce the sound of sorrow, through the use of the sea. This is due to the fact that, the howling of the sea is meant to represent Soto slowing being consumed by his feelings of sorrow and regret but, he knows that even though though he regrets it he can’t take back what's already done. Which also ties into the regretful tone of the narrative, hence the desire that he had listened to the voices inside his head and the plumbing but, in the end he didn’t and because of that he had sinned. Meaning, no matter how much he wishes for forgiveness he knows deep in his heart that he’ll never regain what's already