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What does the woman behind the counter understand? Oranges are good for you to eat. The boy is trying to impress the girl on their first date. The boy grown oranges at his home. The orange is worth more than a nickel. The girl goes on a walk with the speaker of the poem on a cold December day. She chooses a chocolate at the candy store, unaware that the boy is unable to pay for it. She seems to be an easygoing character; the boy leads her towards the drugstore early in the poem The saleslady appears in the second half of the poem, after the speaker and the girl have arrived at the drugstore.
We know nothing about this character besides the fact that she is presumably older than the boy and the girl and that she accepts the boy's exchange of a nickel and orange for the chocolate bar. We might assume that she is a conscientious worker due to the promptness with which she makes her way to the front of the store when the boy and girl arrive. We might also assume that she is generous and kind due to the fact that she accepts the speaker's barter.
Instead of asserting authority over the boy, kicking him out of her shop, or humiliating him for not having enough money, the saleslady wordlessly reads his intention and accepts his offer. Many readers admire the saleslady in "Oranges" even though she appears in a scant few lines. His poems are published online and in print. Oranges is a poem that focuses on the feelings and thoughts of an adolescent boy about to meet up with a girl.
It's a first date so he is full of nerves and apprehension, but the two oranges he has in his pocket help offset the winter cold and inner fear. Gary Soto uses a range of poetic device to get his message over - simile, metaphor, personification and lots of figurative language help keep the reader interested.
Add vivid imagery to the pot and it is plain that Oranges appeals greatly to the senses. The speaker is looking back to his first date, back to winter time cold. It is a bittersweet thrill. The weather doesn't help his cause but to the rescue so to speak come the oranges, full of warmth and color. They are the symbols of hope and confidence. Oranges is all about the tensions that surface when a first date, an initial meeting, is to be experienced. In this case the reader hears all about it from the young man's perspective - it would be an interesting exercise to read about the girl's experience of the same date!
Wonder how much different it would be? It may be winter outside, cold, but the frost and the fog won't get this determined young man down because he has two oranges in his pocket, full of sunshine, warmth and passion. Here is the speaker looking back to his very first walking date. This is December and he feels the responsibility despite the oranges and the excitement. Note the tension in the word cracking and the fact that his breath appears in this frosty air and then is gone!
A bit like a feeling; sometimes like love, which can be fickle and disappear as soon as it arrives. He's on the way to the girl's house. The porch light is always on there any time of year, which is a definite symbol of hope, brightness and consistency, necessary ingredients for a stable and long relationship? Again, the language is important - the lamp burns, to offset the wintry conditions.
He's at the door, waiting for the girl. But let's focus on what we do know for certain about this speaker. First of all, it's a guy remembering the first time he walked with a girl. We get a sense from the carefully remembered details "newly planted trees," "the tiny bell," "a few cars hissing past" that this isn't an event that happened last year, or even in the last 10 years.
This is something that happened long ago but was significant enough to make a big impact on the speaker. This means that our speaker is probably an older man, perhaps middle-aged, remembering his youth and his first love.
We also get the sense that this speaker a regular Joe.
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