Everybody in their lives has learned a lesson from their experiences in the past that enables them to remember them as their lives progress. But in Gary Soto’s autobiographical narrative, he recreates his guilty experience when he was only six years by including religious allusions and expressing vivid imagery. Thus by emphasizing the impact this event had on Gary Soto and allowing the readers to clearly understand this event too. Gary Soto includes religious allusions repeatedly in his narrative to retell his experience. As Gary Soto narrates, he references to religion in almost anything. Like declaring that he “recognized the shadows of angels flopping” in his backyard when it could have just been a cloud’s shadow, or that “a squirrel nailed itself high on the trunk, where it forked into two large back-scabbed limbs” is worded so that it is being described similar to Jesus, or how Gary Soto explained that he was more concerned about feeling guilty because of remembering Eve’s punishments.…show more content… Throughout the narrative, he provides specific details which is surprising since this event is a memory from when he was six years old which is quite a long time to Gary Soto. When Gary Soto ate the apple pie, it was very specific like how it was “sweet and gold-colored in the afternoon sun” and he was able to describe what he precisely did during that day like when he went home and helped his sister and then went to listen to the sound of the plumbing to calm down. Such vivid imagery supports that this event weighed on his mind so much that it is still fresh on his mind till years later. Gary Soto’s recollection of this experience is similar to “How to Kill a Mockingbird.” Just like Gary, Scout remembers very vividly on the major events that happened in that summer because for her, it was a summer that gave her many experiences and lessons that she still recollects years