The plot in “Love in LA” a story by Dagoberto Gilb, provides a glimpse of a young mans superficial view of what is important in life. The thought of a job like everyone else does not even enter his mind. He truly believes that his life is headed in the right direction. After he get himself into a sticky situation.
My focus on my thesis statement is discussing the plot of the story by finding the climax and the conflicts in the story and, then finding a conclusion. My intentions to focus my discussion is talking about the different conflicts there are and finding any literacy techniques in the story, also looking at the resolution of the story. To support my thesis I will use evidence from the story to give an examples of the conflict and resolutions…show more content… He is so enraptured by his daydream of better possibilities that he ends up smacking the car ahead of him. Jake considers driving away but instead he stops and finds out that the owner of the Toyota he hit was a beautiful girl. From there, Jake switches into his smooth talker role with Mariana. Jake then tries to con her by saying he doesn't have any insurance and assures her that he will pay for it. As he drives away, he sees Mariana behind him writing down the license plate numbers that he stole from another car. The exposition of the story are the characters, setting and some background information that we can know from the characters. The two characters in the story is a young man named Jake and the young woman named Mariana. The setting in the story is a street in L.A where both characters bumped themselves. Next, I will provide a background information from one of the characters in the story. We know that from the story that Marianna parents are from Venezuela so she is part Venezuelan. Another information is that she still lives with her parents and looks like she has a stable-life. Now, in Jake’s he lives alone and dreams about having a new fancy car instead of having his old Buick. The rising action in the story is to see what type of conflict was involved in the story. The type of conflict that was involved in the story was an external conflict because Jake gets into a fender-bender with Mariana. The climax was…show more content… In the opening paragraph, Gilb also gives us a deep description of who Jake is, and how he often times dreams about life and what he has or could have. Jake is caught up in the middle of traffic and finds nothing else to do, other than think about life. He wonders what it would be like having a “steady job,” and what he would have to give up in his life. Jake ultimately concludes that he would have to give up his “freedom” in order to settle down and take on a “steady job.” Ironically, while Jake is imagining about all of this freedom that he has, he collides with the car that is in front of him.
After thinking all about this “freedom” that he has, Jake is caught up in the real world and an accident that he has caused. Being without a job, and insurance, Jake is left without anything to do, other than to lie to the lady he hit. Jake immediately thinks up quick lies and in the meantime is very charming to the Venezuelan lady. These lies also reinstate Jake’s character as being one lived on the edge, with no job or set life. Even his license plate had “expired so long ago,” that he got one from the
