Living up the street Book

I recently read LIiving up the street by Gary Soto. This story is an autobiography about Gary Soto life, who is a Mexican-American living in Fresno, California. In the book, Soto writes about his childhood in the 1950s and 1960s,his working class neighborhood his school adventures, how he gets into mischief, his relationship with his family and his work experiences. Some of the characters in the book are his brother Rick, his sister Debra, and the mother.
One of the problems that occurs in the book is that Soto runs away from home and lives on the street. The conflict is resolved when he gets a job at the Valley Tire Factory, a tire shop in Glendale, California. He eventually finds a place to live by renting a room from a family that argued often. The resolution to the conflict shows the reader that Soto becomes independent.

My favorite part of the book was when they were working in the tire shop and the border patrol came and they all started running away from them because they were undocumented immigrants, but Gary wasn’t an immigrant he just ran with them for fun. Its my favorite because its show us how us Mexican work hard and risk our life for our families.

I think Gary Soto wants readers to know that relationship with your family is very important. He also wants us to know that life is hard because as we get older we need to learn how to be independent, without the help of our parents. As i was reading the book, I learned that our decisions always have positive or negative consequences. In my opinion, Living Up the Street, was mediocre because it was a book that has a lot of adventures.

I do and don’t recommend this book because its confusing, Gary changes unexpectedly in every chapter. But its shows us how he gets older and is mature even to live by himself.