If someone were to tell me that Pat Mora’s tone in Legal Alien was exactly the same as Gary Soto’s in Mexicans Begin Jogging, I would disprove that by defining “tone” and “exactly”, referencing the authors’ backgrounds, and contrasting specific diction between poems. Soto and Mora are Mexican-Americans, which influences the similar subject of their literature. Tone can be inferred from a piece’s imagery and articulation. Although they are of similar context, the tone of Legal Alien and Mexicans Begin […]
