“The storyteller” is an article by Sandra Cisneros about her life journey beginning from post graduate school to a school teacher. In between she writes about her life in the point of views of a dependent, a growing writer, and a teacher, with short descriptions that gives the reader a glimpse of her mentality on each stage. All that is mixed up into the life of an average Hispanic woman from Chicago.
Halfway through her article, during her “growing writer” stage, Cisneros writes a paragraph about what her and her friends do together. About how they all put in tremendous effort to do things for no capital. “…I invite these friends to come to my apartment to workshop each other’s writing…we finish our collaborations in the early hours before …show more content…
The “we” are also the people she loves as stated in the second part of the quote. “We” are her friends that she loves are artist like herself. I think when she says “fire” and “burning” she doesn’t mean destruction like what normally happens to a house on fire. I think she metaphorically refers to the fire as a passion. A natural fire that sparks at birth that later kindles as you grow. In the quote the passion kindled enough to engulf the whole house –her world and the world of her friends that she loves. That is why she does what she does. That is why she gathers with her friends to workshop each other’s writing. That is why they stay up until dawn collaborating. That is why they organize monthly art events and get no pay for their …show more content…
“..the world we live in is a house on fire…”. While stating her quote, Cisneros uses the possessive form of “we”. It’s as though she feels artists own exclusive estate in the other part of town. Maybe not by choice. Artists are outcast of the main town (where the other metaphorical houses reside. Signifying the “real world”).Where everyone thinks it’s crazy to burn (to live the life of an artist). The very idea of wanting to burn their house is inconceivable to them because they don’t have their own spark. Anyone who wants to burn is labeled “stupid” and is told that they will never have a future in the main town. In that case, the artists have two choices. Forever hide their flame to stay in the main town, or they can accept their flame, retreat to the outskirts of town, trap themselves in their own little home, and set it all on
Halfway through her article, during her “growing writer” stage, Cisneros writes a paragraph about what her and her friends do together. About how they all put in tremendous effort to do things for no capital. “…I invite these friends to come to my apartment to workshop each other’s writing…we finish our collaborations in the early hours before …show more content…
The “we” are also the people she loves as stated in the second part of the quote. “We” are her friends that she loves are artist like herself. I think when she says “fire” and “burning” she doesn’t mean destruction like what normally happens to a house on fire. I think she metaphorically refers to the fire as a passion. A natural fire that sparks at birth that later kindles as you grow. In the quote the passion kindled enough to engulf the whole house –her world and the world of her friends that she loves. That is why she does what she does. That is why she gathers with her friends to workshop each other’s writing. That is why they stay up until dawn collaborating. That is why they organize monthly art events and get no pay for their …show more content…
“..the world we live in is a house on fire…”. While stating her quote, Cisneros uses the possessive form of “we”. It’s as though she feels artists own exclusive estate in the other part of town. Maybe not by choice. Artists are outcast of the main town (where the other metaphorical houses reside. Signifying the “real world”).Where everyone thinks it’s crazy to burn (to live the life of an artist). The very idea of wanting to burn their house is inconceivable to them because they don’t have their own spark. Anyone who wants to burn is labeled “stupid” and is told that they will never have a future in the main town. In that case, the artists have two choices. Forever hide their flame to stay in the main town, or they can accept their flame, retreat to the outskirts of town, trap themselves in their own little home, and set it all on