Repsonse to a Gary Soto poem

Writing Project #2: Response in Parts to “Drinking in the Sixties” From Gary Soto’s New and Selected Poems. Part 1: Lines 1-13 The speaker thinks that drinking make you popular and makes friends if you laugh while drinking. The speaker notices the smallest things his teachers do that makes them look drunk. It seems as if drinking was a big thing to him hoping it would make him popular. He’s sees the teachers drunk and …showed first 75 words of 421 total…

…showed last 75 words of 421 total…They are thinking about how the teachers used to be. I feel that after thinking about school and how they weren’t very popular that the speaker and his friend get frustrated and start kicking the walls and slamming chairs against other chairs even after they felt bad for wrecking the house earlier. They decide to go outside and lay in the leaves to cool off and think about more important things then being popular.