Analysis Of Pilón By Sandra Cisneros

Response to Sandra Cisneros “Pilón (2002)” In this short story “Pilón” written by Sandra Cisneros was very detailed from the begging of the story as a song stuck her memory that she went on to explain transformation as a little girl growing up going through puberty to her growing up as in emigrant. It only got better as the story went on. Cisneros shared the way she felt deep inside from beginning to end of the short story. Wishing she could be at a place in her life that knowing what she imagined and in reality to know that she would never get the chance of that becoming her imagination not coming true. As reading this story at first didn 't make too much sense, but after reading it a second time it finally clicked the reaction at first …show more content…
The history of the “Red Rubicon” (129) is known to be a river located in North Italy that Julius Caesar and his army crossed. The reference this is the milestone that was crossed in life, but for females its a different type of milestone. Its something that once it happens, it can’t unhappen. Once you cross the Rubicon it was a point of no return. In life we all go through something that has a point of no return, but for this story, it focus on females and once they experience the “Red Rubicon” (129) they realize that one thing that they will never be able to get rid of it. The reference of the Rubicon and the Red Rubicon was a deeply thought process but it connects at the …show more content…
I’ve never been a boy. But girls somewhere between the ages of, say, eight and puberty, girls forget they have bodies.”(129) By that statement alone singled her and females into this category that we call “others”. She specifically categorized females and females only. In the Text Michale Frazier wrote “He hit her But…” he goes into talking about Victim blaming and domestic violence. In this situation In the text he explains how people categorize woman as “Others” when it comes to domestic violence people are so quick to point the finger to the female and how she must have proved him to hit her. He also made a statement about how some females were clothing that allows them to get rapped, but before that Cisneros also made another point in her text that is in some way similar to the blog when she said “She isn 't aware of being watched. Not aware of her body, causing men to look at her yet. Then Frazier made a point when he said “If someone were raped, would you turn to them and tell them that they should have worn a certain outfit, or state that they shouldn 't have walked in a certain location to avoid the rape?” Once we take a step back and really see like there are so many ways that people get put into categories that we call “Others” especially women in the text from the short story to the