The Mexican-American Woman Analysis

There's a deeper reflection that existed in the act of telling stories of any kind. Growing up as child the entailment of small talk and tall tales act as a mean to develop the ability to express ourselves in an understanding fashion. The necessary skill of making ourselves known to the world becomes a strong element in gaining a step forward in a direction without guidances. Cisneros “wipes out any illusion of life-likeness, revealing the fictive from of the text” on how the facts incorporated in the novel set the setting as a distorted illusion to reality (Salvucci 170). The paradoxical shift in time throughout the story, created by Celaya’s narrative skill, develops into the formation of her identify “the migration with her family put her sense of self at risk even as those very migration define who she is as a Mexican-American female, and as a storyteller” (Alumbaugh 69). As an author, as an artist, and as a person we try to communicate a part of ourself to make a bridge and connect with others around us to gain recognition of our efforts and …show more content…
Sometimes a bridge is necessary to transition into a better phase in life or as way to reminded of our past. The attachment of a rebozo, for example, in Caramelo holds values of thousand memories in which Celaya’s great grandma placed within the complex threading of the rebozo. The rebozos represents the feminine identity in the form of a piece of cloth. the presence of the cloth shapes the impression of a woman, into a deeper consideration, as the rebozos contain the secrets of the wearer. In the