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Summary: a good book
Review: Everybody liked the book because it was short, easy, realistic, and we can relate to the characters. We all like working for money. Riley wants to join the navy like "Eddie". We can also relate to "Eddie" because we all face many obstacles everyday. It might not be so criticle so we would have to look behind our shoulders incase a kid wants to hurt us, but its not that easy for us, or anyone.by:Julian Hanauer, Riley Chan, Mike Gokey, and Jessie. We are all from Ms. DeLaCruz's english class.
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Summary: A Struggle for Survival
Review: Gary Soto's Buried Onions tells the story of Eddie, a young man who is struggling to survive in the neighborhood he lives in. In his neighborhood "Once a dude pointed you out in a 7-Eleven parking lot or some filthy gas station, there was no mercy, no time to explain that you were a father or a good son or an altar boy with combed hair." That is exactly what Eddie wants to escape. His goal to work and stay out of trouble although simple is many times challenged by the relationships that time has established in his neighborhood, his aunts pressure to have him avenge his cousins passingand his bad luck. Although he is constantly seeking out employment opportunities he has a hard time finding a job and when he does luck is not on his side. Events that are out of his control occur and the opportunities that he so desperately seeks and need are taken away. He is then left to try again to fulfill his goal and not take the easy way out like it is expected. Eddie's struggle is one that many young adults can relate to. Buried Onions is a different story that addresses the concern for survival in a world in which you are expected to fail. I would definitely recommend this book to young adults of all genders and race. The struggle for survial is one that they all can relate to. They will enjoy reading this fiction story that is filled with realistic events that many of them face today. It is an easy and enjoyable book to read. The Spanish language used in this story gives life to the characters and is non-confusing since there is a glossary in the book. Some foul language is used in the story but it is non-offensive. It is used at a minimum. This is a great story that can be discussed in class or with friends.
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Summary: Buried Onions: Great Reading for Young Adult...
Review: Having to make it through life in a tough gang-related-activity-infested neighborhood, adolescent protagonist Eddie in Gary Soto's Buried Onions demonstrates his strong will and rock-solid determination as he carries out his resolve to stay away from the negativity of the barrio environment and fulfills his necessity to "hold down a hob painting house numbers on curbs, picking grapes, and doing lawns". Thus, the primary fundamental human concern in this book is survival. The sense of hopeleness and anguish Eddie feels can be well portrayed by the symbol of the title and its significance to the theme of this novel. One can almost feel the dreary tone expressed by the lines, " Babies in strollers pinched up their noses and wailed for no reason,"Tears leapt from stained eyes." As if the adversity wasn't enough for him to deal, let alone getting hounded constantly by local members, Eddie gets himself into more trouble when Eddie is framed for stealing a truck at work. He is also forced to escape the pressures set on him as his aunt wants him to avenge for his cousin's murder by local gangs. In addition every time Eddie tries to better himself, the turn of events would have him back where he started.
Just when the average reader thought that Eddie would let in his troubles and succumb to his daily list of neighborhood woes, Eddie would eventually prove the durability of the resolve he made in the beginning of the story- that is to not get involved in gang related activity, for he wants no part of it. However it's only when all the "cards are stacked against him" that Eddie would defy all odds and break out of the sweltering barrio by enlisting in the navy. Though menaced by his past when he would always get caught up doing the wrong things, Eddie shows that however dire the consequence seems, somehow there is always a solution and way out. Through a lifelong struggle of poverty and evasion of gang rumblings, Eddie escapes the miserable past and finally live the regular life he wanted.
The value of Gary Soto's novels lie not only in his ability to paint rich accurate portrayals of social ills of reality, but also in his ability to offer solutions to the problems, such as poverty and crime. In this story, the obvious solution was enlisting the navy and getting out of the ghetto. This novel, as do many of his novels, encourage young adults to fiercely face their problems, and find solutions through preseverance and logical thinking. I strongly recommend this novel to any prospective young adult readers because survival is one of the most important fundamental human concerns that transcend culture, race, and age. Moreover, this novel teaches children or adults how to deal with and the powerful urge to overcome adversity. The depth of the understanding of the human concern will further be immensed provided that the child who knows what the necessity of making a living is like especially if he had lived the life of Eddie.
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Summary: indifferent to buried onions.
Review: I find myself indifferent to this book. it neither appealed to me, nor repulsed me. It's analogy of the onion under the city was one that i have experienced before having lived in fresno, and do understand the consept of consuption by your surroundings. As for the characters i did not care for any of them as people. I put myself in the position of almost all of them and found that i was amuned to their pain. perhaps this book was about something more and i just did not see it. never the less i am not about to reprimand this book on the count that i am desensitized to starvation, crime, and being of the lower class.
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Summary: Buried Onions
Review: I had to pick out a novel for english 10,my the librarian recommended that I read Buried Onions by Gary Soto. I had never even heard of this author before,but I decided to read it anyway,at first I was reluctant to read it,then as I got farther along into the book, the more and more I wanted to read. I think that this was a very interesting and down to earth book. Gary Soto writes about real life,it gives you the message; sometimes things don't start out ok and sometimes things don't change.Which just means you have to look from a different perspective.
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Summary: A good book!
Review: I read the book Buried Onions in my English class,I related to this book in many ways. For example I felt wanting to leave where I'm at but was never able to.Eddie was a teenager trying to get out of the gang life.He tried
to do a lot of things to stay out of trouble but it always seemed to follow him. I really like this book because it shows alot of what us teenagers have to go through almost every day. "We were all poor and going somewhere- but where?" I think anybody that reads this book will like it because it's real life stuff that anyone could go through.
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Summary: Outstanding until the last page- ending very weak
Review: I read the book in one sitting. I enjoyed the story line. But for some reason I had problems understanding the ending and after discussing it with several other teachers they felt the same way I did. Even though, we had different views as to what happened to Eddie at the end, we all agreed that the ending was very weak. If Mr. Soto wanted to make his readers think twice about the ending and what happened to Eddie, then he did a great job of doing just that.
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Summary: great book
Review: I recommended this book to every one, not just teenagers, It may seem as if it is boring because of it's boring cover but truthfully it is really interesting. Trust me on this, I can not read books if they are not good, but this book was like a hook I couldn't get off of it! It's a very good book. I personally related to the book because I was born in Fresno, California. My whole family lives up there, most of my uncles are gangsters, so that's why I could relate to this book. There was a really good part in the book when Eddie went inside the restaurant to call Mr. stiles to tell him they had found his car, when Eddie went back outside he saw Jose (his best friend) lying over the car as if he was checking the tire of a car but the problem was that there was no tire, he looked up and saw three gangsters running, one of them picked up a glass bottle and threw it at Eddie it missed and shattered all over the place. Jose went to the hospital and... from there on you have to read it and find out. If you're really not interested in the whole gang thing, than you... should still read it! Why? Because it also talks about a young guy trying to survive, about true friends and family.
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Summary: How Eddie and I are Alike.
Review: I started to like the book from the begining. I liked the way Gary Soto wrote Eddie's {the main character} feelings. I liked how short it was, and the way he mixes with Spanish and the English.I like the way Eddie tries to keep his nose out of trouble, but bad things happen to him anyway. Sometimes, it is not his fault.That happens to kids like me, too. Onions to Eddie might be the ghosts of family and friends and he sees them when it's hot out and it's just get done raining, the steam rises from the ground. I liked the way he got a job rather than get into a gang. But when he was so tired he said "I forced myself, pushed on the pedal, because like that red ant, I had top come home with my own crumbs."I think teenagers should read about this book and think about this book."
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Summary: This book was a riviting book
Review: I think that this book was a really good book. It deserves all those stars because of the real life things that go on in the book.I really like this book because it shows how a man can go through such struggle and triumph over it.I also like this book because this book touches on real life subjects such as the way poverty destroys innocent peoples lives.Overall this is a good book and it deserves all 5 stars.
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