At some point of our life, you would encounter the unexpected happened when you least expected it or you would think love doesn’t cost money. Both of them are two of the major messages that Gary Soto, the author of the short story the Broken Chain wanted to send to us. The story Broken Chain is about an Mexican-American boy who hates his appearance but he to take all of his courage to asks Sandra to a bike date. Alfonso is a seventh-grader live in a poor neighborhood, one day, he invited his friend, Sandra to a bike date, he give his best shots to everything, his clothes, his hair, he gotto make sure that almost everything will fall to the exact place. When Alfonso went out to clean his bike, tried to make his bike look new so he took the
