Sandra Cisneros’s “Pilon” addresses the author’s nostalgia for the mood and feelings evoked by her nonexistent childhood home and culture. In “Pilon” Cisneros expresses how meaningful but ephemeral are her made belief recollections of a childhood that she did not personally experience, but can still feel. Cisneros tries to explain to the reader the feelings of a person caught in a limbo, between the culture she came to know by experience, and the culture she came to know by heritage. The world she grew up in, and the world she was raised in.
The author repeatedly uses Spanish names and words, as if to create a more vivid contrast between the culture she is currently living in, and the culture she is trying to actively remember; all, in order
The author repeatedly uses Spanish names and words, as if to create a more vivid contrast between the culture she is currently living in, and the culture she is trying to actively remember; all, in order