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    A Study Guide for Gary Soto's "Novio Boy"
    A Study Guide for Gary Soto's "Novio Boy"
    A Study Guide for Gary Soto's "Novio Boy"
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    A Study Guide for Gary Soto's "Novio Boy"

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    A Study Guide for Gary Soto's "Novio Boy," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateAug 12, 2016
    ISBN9781535829731
    A Study Guide for Gary Soto's "Novio Boy"

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      A Study Guide for Gary Soto's "Novio Boy" - Gale

      09

      Novio Boy

      Gary Soto

      1997

      Introduction

      A one-act play in seven scenes, Gary Soto's Novio Boy is intended for junior high school and high school readers, performers, and audiences. Published by Harcourt in 1997, the play is set in a Mexican American neighborhood in Fresno, California, about two hundred miles north of Los Angeles. Soto suggests that this setting is adaptable to any region, as it is written in somewhat simple and colloquial English mixed with some Spanish. The novio of the work's title means boyfriend or sweetheart in Spanish. Novio Boy tells the story of ninth grader Rudy's first date with eleventh grader Patricia. The play focuses on his concern about what to say and how to behave during the date, obtaining the money to pay for the date, her anticipation, and his family's responses to this milestone in his social maturation. Mixed in with its treatment of typical teenage concerns are allusions to Chicano culture, referencing food, music, and radio programs.

      Soto has also used the term Novio Boy for the name of a cat in his children's story, Chato and the Party Animals.

      Author Biography

      Gary Soto was born to working-class Chicano parents, or Americans of Mexican descent, Manuel and Angie Soto, in Fresno, California, on April 12, 1952. Manuel, like his Mexican-born parents, was a field and factory worker. He was killed, at the age of twenty-seven, in a work-related accident when Soto was only five years old. Soto, too, labored in the California fields as a grape and orange picker. After he graduated from high school in 1970, Soto was convinced he would not be admitted to California State University, Fresno, so he enrolled at Fresno City College, where he studied geography. Soto encountered the poetry of the American poet Edward Field in his college library. Identifying with Field's work, especially with his descriptions of alienation, Soto found power in words to express feelings that seemed

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