A Short Story By Sandra Cisneros Analysis

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The point of the view in the stories by Sandra Cisneros is usually 3rd person using the words, he, she, and it. The story in third person makes to reader connect to the reader’s emotions. “Salvador inside that wrinkled shirt, inside the throat and each time it speaks.” The author uses the personal pronoun it to describe Salvador because of his hard lifestyle that is described in the passage. I personally feel sad because I would refer to simple things as it (like the garbage can) and I would never call a person it, the author probable used it to show how he is not living like a human. The author probably shows that he is a very laborious person that gets treated like an it and not a living person. “It means sadness, it means writing. It is

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