Only Daughter by Sandra Cisneros Essay

My Response on Eleven In the literary text “Eleven” by Sandra Cisseros, the author expresses all of the different feelings about being eleven years older that the character Rachel is experiencing as she describes her eleventh birthday. Through the text Cisseros appeals to the emotion of the audience, creates imagery, and applies details from home life to characterize Rachel. Today is Rachel’s eleventh birthday, yet she doesn’t quite feel eleven. At least least, “Not right away. It takes a few…

In Sandra Cisneros’ “House On Mango Street” Esperanza experiences a moment of identity through her appearance. In the vignette, Chanclas, She is insecure about what her feet look like because they are supposedly so big, but she ended up noticing that nobody else noticed or cared. But the question is, did anybody actually notice or care about what she or her feet looked like? The answer is no, nobody noticed. In the vignette, “those who don’t” is about Esperanza talking about people who don’t…

when she is holding you and you feel safe” (Cisneros 6-7). The quote shows that Esperanza is a dependent person and unconfident in her life, because when he mom holds her hands, Esperanza feels secure and confident. Another quote shows how immature she was when she said “They are stupid people who are lost and…

Adolescence and Sexual Development in The House on Mango Street: How It Relates to Modern Society In Sandra Cisneros’ novel The House on Mango Street, a major theme is adolescence and the developing awareness of the opposite gender, which subsequently leads to a loss of innocence. One of the first places that these themes are seen is the chapter “Hips.” With the statement, “One day you wake up and they are there. Ready and waiting like a new Buick with the keys in the ignition” (49), this…

In the novel House On Mangoes Street by Sandra Cisneros, the women are depicted as weak yet the anchors of the family. For example, Rafaela who has to sacrifice her desires and her wishes so her husband can pursue his. The text states “Rafaela leans out the window and leans on her elbow and dreams like her hair is life Rapunzel’s. On the corner there's music from the bar, and Rafaela wishes she could go there and dance before she gets old.” Women like Rafaela, The Vargas mom, and Esperanza’s…

high heels, when she put them on and walked in town with the shoes on , Cisneros states “ them are dangerous, you girls are too young to be wearing shoes like that” The heels made Esperanza look older and more mature. Since Esperanza looked older, men were confronting her and she did not feel comfortable, soon after she took of the heels. Even the slightest thing can affect someone's appearance. Even though Esperanza was only wearing heels it made her realize to be more careful and the mature.…

The American Dream Have you ever wondered what it took to live the American Dream? In the “House on mango street” By Sandra Cisneros it shows the things you need to live the perfect american life. The main character in the story is Esperanza,she is a young girl who lives with her family in a small house on mango street. The story takes place in chicago, Esperanza and her five other family members live.Her family is very poor and they don't live the american dream. Her family faces many…

The Life to Live Is the dream you living the America dream? The author to the book The House on Mango Street is Sandra ciseros. The main character in the book is Esperanza a girl that she created and has some similar characteristics. The story of The House on Mango Street is about a young girl that struggles with money and lives in a house with two boys and one sister in Chicago. The obstacles to the American Dream are trust/honesty, lack of poverty, and lack of time (family). First of…

needed a blood transfusion. An Italian priest named Father Maurizio payed for the transfusion from donations, but the baby died several days later. Mariatu blamed herself for the death of her baby she said ¨Abdul would have wanted to live if I had only given him love.¨ A year later woman from the camp named Yomaba helped her move to England with a man named David and his wife Mariama. The couple helped her get a prosthetic hand and new opportunity. She hated every bit of England she felt as if…

Benjamin Franklin once said, “Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.” This way of thinking is often a popular theme in literature. In Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street, characters experience conflicts between escaping and remaining loyal to their origins. Esperanza’s atypical mindset differentiates her from her harsh, analogous community and environment. One’s identity creates turmoil for those who wish to break out of their silent oppression. Esperanza upholds…