Literary Analysis on Gary Soto's "The Pie" Prominent American authors such as Mark Twain, Jonathan Edwards, and Nathan Hawthorne extensively emphasize in their works the role guilt plays in a person's conscience and society. In Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain builds up the plot by thoroughly describing the guilt Huck feels after he helps Jim, the slave, to run away. As a young boy, Huck disregards the society's values and chooses his …showed first 75 words of 584 total…

…showed last 75 words of 584 total…the conscience through physical means. Soto demonstrates his superior writing techniques in achieving his purpose by the utilization of metaphor, allusion, and motif. In teaching a valuable lesson, the passage also serves as a guide to all those who lose their way on the path to the perfection of the soul. Through the incident, the author learns that pleasure obtained through sinful means remains short-lived and comes at the price of one's moral and soul.