A lot of authors only use one or two writing approaches. This is not the case for Sandra Cisneros. Every single literary tool that she uses brings out an important meaning to the story. In The House on Mango Street, Cisneros tells the story of a young girl named Esperanza using vignettes. Esperanza lives in a small house and faces a lot of challenges, involving beauty, being unprivileged and having problems within her family. As the book gets closer and closer to the end, all the vignettes leads to a dramatic ending. Sandra Cisneros creates the ending by using figurative language and compare/contrasts to fully explain the character’s identities and personalities. Additionally, sensory details and literary device were also used by the legendary author to evoke different perspectives of her characters.
Cisneros shows the character’s perspectives through figurative language. In the middle of the story, Esperanza and her siblings were talking about her aunt’s disease and Esperanza describes her aunt as “a little oyster, a little piece of meat on an open shell” (60). In other words, she thinks that her aunt is just something to look at. This shows that Esperanza has no sympathy for others because she is mean to her aunt who has a terrible disease. Additionally, Esperanza thinks of her as an unimportant person that is useless to society since she is blind and cannot do a single thing. In another …show more content…
At first, she wanted to be the richest and cried a lot, but at the story went on, she got more and more mature and had a broader view to the real world. Most importantly, the description and the characters’ views that were evoked by Sandra Cisneros is the reason why this book is one of the greatest of all time. Can you use these writing strategies if you write a book in the
Cisneros shows the character’s perspectives through figurative language. In the middle of the story, Esperanza and her siblings were talking about her aunt’s disease and Esperanza describes her aunt as “a little oyster, a little piece of meat on an open shell” (60). In other words, she thinks that her aunt is just something to look at. This shows that Esperanza has no sympathy for others because she is mean to her aunt who has a terrible disease. Additionally, Esperanza thinks of her as an unimportant person that is useless to society since she is blind and cannot do a single thing. In another …show more content…
At first, she wanted to be the richest and cried a lot, but at the story went on, she got more and more mature and had a broader view to the real world. Most importantly, the description and the characters’ views that were evoked by Sandra Cisneros is the reason why this book is one of the greatest of all time. Can you use these writing strategies if you write a book in the