The House on Mango Street Dialect Journals Sandra Cisneros
Journal #1
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Where do you live? She asked.
There, I said pointing up to the third floor.
You live there?
There. I had to look to where she pointed - the third floor, the paint peeling, wooden bars Papa had nailed on the windows so we wouldn’t fall out.
5
In this paragraph in the story, the author does not follow the guidelines for writing as usual. She uses no quotation marks and doesn’t specify who is speaking every time. I feel like this gives hints of dialect because we were introduced to this character has someone who cannot speak english well because it is not their first language and who is living in the Latino section of Chicago. …show more content…
That’s what the little one tells me.
Five dollars is cheap since I don’t have any friends except Cathy who is only my friend till Tuesday.
Five Dollars, five dollars.
14
In this paragraph in the story, again the author does not follow the guidelines of writing such as using quotation marks and letting us know who is speaking at the time. She also uses the word till, which is improper for writing but fits the character because the character is showing somewhat of an uneducated english dialect, since it is not her first language. What she is saying doesn’t make much sense either, saying how she should pay for a friend, perhaps she doesn’t understand how things work since she is new to her city.
Journal #3
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One day they are playing chicken on Mr. Benny’s roof. Mr. Benny says, Hey ain’t you kids know better than to be swinging up there? Come down you come down right now, and then they just spit. …show more content…
I read it in a book.
I got a cousin, Rachel says. She got three different names. There ain't thirty different kinds of snow, Lucy says. There are two kinds. The clean kind and the dirty kind, clean and dirty. Only two.
35
In this paragraph in the story, these girls’ dialect is uneducated. Again, because they live in a poverty part of the city and they use improper english, such as ain’t, and using got the wrong way. The author again also shows us no punctuation such as quotation marks and the repetition. She was repeating the two different kinds of snow which show that she trying to get her point across but it is unnecessary and the obvious two different types of snow are not clean and dirty, but that is just what she knows because perhaps their school systems fail to teach them the proper things.
Journal #5
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You gotta get the rhythm, and Lucy begins to dance. She has the idea, though she's having trouble keeping her end of the double dutch steady.
It’s gotta be just so, I
Journal #1
Passages from the Text
Page #
Commentary
Where do you live? She asked.
There, I said pointing up to the third floor.
You live there?
There. I had to look to where she pointed - the third floor, the paint peeling, wooden bars Papa had nailed on the windows so we wouldn’t fall out.
5
In this paragraph in the story, the author does not follow the guidelines for writing as usual. She uses no quotation marks and doesn’t specify who is speaking every time. I feel like this gives hints of dialect because we were introduced to this character has someone who cannot speak english well because it is not their first language and who is living in the Latino section of Chicago. …show more content…
That’s what the little one tells me.
Five dollars is cheap since I don’t have any friends except Cathy who is only my friend till Tuesday.
Five Dollars, five dollars.
14
In this paragraph in the story, again the author does not follow the guidelines of writing such as using quotation marks and letting us know who is speaking at the time. She also uses the word till, which is improper for writing but fits the character because the character is showing somewhat of an uneducated english dialect, since it is not her first language. What she is saying doesn’t make much sense either, saying how she should pay for a friend, perhaps she doesn’t understand how things work since she is new to her city.
Journal #3
Passages from the Text
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Commentary
One day they are playing chicken on Mr. Benny’s roof. Mr. Benny says, Hey ain’t you kids know better than to be swinging up there? Come down you come down right now, and then they just spit. …show more content…
I read it in a book.
I got a cousin, Rachel says. She got three different names. There ain't thirty different kinds of snow, Lucy says. There are two kinds. The clean kind and the dirty kind, clean and dirty. Only two.
35
In this paragraph in the story, these girls’ dialect is uneducated. Again, because they live in a poverty part of the city and they use improper english, such as ain’t, and using got the wrong way. The author again also shows us no punctuation such as quotation marks and the repetition. She was repeating the two different kinds of snow which show that she trying to get her point across but it is unnecessary and the obvious two different types of snow are not clean and dirty, but that is just what she knows because perhaps their school systems fail to teach them the proper things.
Journal #5
Passages from the Text
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Commentary
You gotta get the rhythm, and Lucy begins to dance. She has the idea, though she's having trouble keeping her end of the double dutch steady.
It’s gotta be just so, I