Only Daughter by Sandra Cisneros Essay

family. My parents had three children and we moved a lot and finally settled down in a place. Nevertheless, in Sandra Cisneros’ essay “ The Storyteller” she discusses about how she was raised in a big family and being the only woman out of the children. Her parents were based on a tradition to where everyone had to live with their parents until marriage. Based on Cisneros’ essay, I was the only woman out of the…

When I was three years old my mom used to play music in the car while driving me to swimming lessons. She would play the songs she liked to listen to but then she would ask me what I wanted. I always wanted to listen to “Jessie’s Girl.” Not many three year olds would say that but I knew that I liked that song. It went from her playing songs to me in the car to her buying me a little Disney karaoke machine when I was five. Shortly after that, she would watch “shows” my friend and I would make up…

shows the life of a married woman through a character named Cleófilas, the issues of wanting to live in a fantasy. Instead Cleófilas is a character who is married to a man who does not love her and started to abuse her physically and mentally. In Sandra Cisneros short story, “Woman Hollering Creek” it shifts settings from the past in Mexico to the present in Seguin, Texas it somehow provides a before and after…

Both of her parents had AIDS. Liz rarely went to school. In one occasion she went to school only three times in one month. Liz got bullied at school because she never showered and itched from lice. Liz had a teacher who once told her, “You are way too smart to not be in here”. The teacher donated clothes to her. Liz’s mother never went to school…

can be either your parent trying to do what is best for you or seeing what they go through. The three poems that are being analyzed are “The Victims” by Sharon Olds, “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden and “One Last Poem For Richard” by Sandra Cisneros. The two short essays are “The Fat Girl” by Andre Dubus and “Desiree’s Baby” by Kate Chopin. The novels that are Hamlet and Pride and Prejudice. All of these show a family structure in different ways and some show gender roles as well. In the…

children begin reading at the ripe age of 3 and by the time their 8 the little tiger cubs have been enrolled in everything from high school level math classes to the summer music program at Julliard. Why I even know a mother who put her 10 year old daughter in a college level…

for her is unhappy in her married. Her husband sees to be scared because of her bad temper. They were trying to decide which child should stay on which child should go with the mother, the mother choose to take the daughter and the baby girl with her, leaving the boy when he was only five years old with his father and her sister. It was tough when we saw the wagon (house) it was going to be attacked by wolves resulting in his sister. Death ‘’He watched the back of the wagon, and the tiny figure…

some form of sexism. That can be catcalling, lower wages than men, societal gender roles, lack of an education, or abuse because of your gender. These acts of sexism severely diminish a woman’s view of herself. In The House On Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, the main character Esperanza and the other women in her community face the constant struggles and effects that sexism has on them. The Help by Kathryn Stockett also presents the effect of sexism in her characters when they try to change…

really equal. Many women face this problem everyday, especially women of ethnicity. They face this problem more than others, they sometimes get treated like servants and are stripped of their freedom. Which happens in The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, gender roles significantly shape Esperanza’s identity because women do not have power or freedom in their community which is shown when Sally and Alicia are afraid of their fathers…

family live in one house. This includes all generations. For example, grandparents, parents, and kids would live all in one house. If the parents have a son, then he stays in the house with his wife and they all live together. If the parents have a daughter, then after her marriage she will leave this house and live with her husband’s family. In rare cases does the family live in separate houses. Before the boy gets married the father and mother take care of the kids, and when the kids are…