Summary Of Women Hollering Creek By Sandra Cisneros

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Sandra Cisneros shows that women can be innocent but they can also be the “Malinche” which means a person that doesn't actually care about someone else. In the story “Never marry a mexican” from the book Women Hollering Creek by Sandra Cisneros, Cisneros challenges stereotypes of latina women. In the different story it talks about how latina women can sometimes act or how their attitude is between a situation.

In the story “Eleven” it’s a girl´s birthday and she’s been treated bad because of a sweater that wasn’t hers. Rachel, the girl who was told to wear a sweater that didn’t belong to her said ”...that stupid Sylvia saldivar says, “i think it belongs to Rachel.” An ugly sweater like that, all raggedy and old, but Mrs. Price believes her”.

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