Sandra Cisneros Research Paper

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Sandra Cisneros The author for this project is a multi-cultural, passionate author, with well known books and a variety of book genres with different combination of writing styles. Sandra Cisneros is incredibly gifted in her writing techniques, as she is a current literature educator and inspires people to see the world the way she does. Cisneros has done a good job of making her writing style comprehensible, many can depict what she's discussing about by just flipping to a random page in one of her books. Sandra Cisneros's writing style is unique as she utilizes it, she does a good job at including supporting evidence, and major details along with main ideas about her rhetoric devices as she is well-known for.
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As the book progresses, Cisneros writes this novel through multiple narratives, her siblings, friends, and family to uncover everything there is to know about Celaya, revealing more and more that there is to know about her. Celaya faces the harsh conditions that are expected from her through traditional and cultural roles as a Chicana, Celaya taught to be tough endures this challenge as she’s being rejected from her own grandmother, “Sin padre, sin madre, sin perro que me ladre,” (Caramelo, 119). (Without a father, without a mother, and without even a dog that will call for me). Despite Celaya’s rejection from her grandmother she holds grudges against her, and essentially drives to be a better person and takes her father into consideration being taught and modeled the way of being a devoted young cultural lady with wisdom and morals as she faces negligence from her own grandmother. Furthermore this upscale is brought upon Inocencio and his mother being jealous over the fact that his son loves his wife more than his own mother. Jealousy can be related as everybody welcomed Celaya except her grandmother, rage was sparked by wanting to be treated the way her granddaughter was, with compassion and love, thus causing these factors. In

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