Sandra Cisneros Essay

Cisneros’s “The House on Mango Street” shows a young girl named esperanza grow up. Esperanza grows up isolated from what she really wants to achieve with her life. Her identity changes over time as she experiences different situations and challenges. She is unsure of her true identity, she travels through her life feeling different ways and overcoming obstacles, like poverty, sexism. As she gets older she finds parts of her true identity and learns more about who she truly wants to be.…

My Response on Eleven In the literary text “Eleven” by Sandra Cisseros, the author expresses all of the different feelings about being eleven years older that the character Rachel is experiencing as she describes her eleventh birthday. Through the text Cisseros appeals to the emotion of the audience, creates imagery, and applies details from home life to characterize Rachel. Today is Rachel’s eleventh birthday, yet she doesn’t quite feel eleven. At least least, “Not right away. It takes a few…

when she is holding you and you feel safe” (Cisneros 6-7). The quote shows that Esperanza is a dependent person and unconfident in her life, because when he mom holds her hands, Esperanza feels secure and confident. Another quote shows how immature she was when she said “They are stupid people who are lost and…

Esperanza was given high heels, when she put them on and walked in town with the shoes on , Cisneros states “ them are dangerous, you girls are too young to be wearing shoes like that” The heels made Esperanza look older and more mature. Since Esperanza looked older, men were confronting her and she did not feel comfortable, soon after she took…

The Life to Live Is the dream you living the America dream? The author to the book The House on Mango Street is Sandra ciseros. The main character in the book is Esperanza a girl that she created and has some similar characteristics. The story of The House on Mango Street is about a young girl that struggles with money and lives in a house with two boys and one sister in Chicago. The obstacles to the American Dream are trust/honesty, lack of poverty, and lack of time (family). First of…

Bite Of The Mango addresses the life of Mariatu at the age of eleven. She lived in a small village in Sierra Leone with her aunt and uncle until the rebels attacked Sierra Leone, she was kidnapped and tortured. The author that helped write this book is Susan McClelland. She became interested in world issued in high school, that later encouraged her to be a journalist so that she could give a voice to the voiceless. She has a Major in Political Science, a Minor in Peaces Studies, she also has a…

In the story "Tepeyac" by Sandra Cisneros, Cisneros uses syntax and diction to describe the streets of her childhood and where she grew up, she uses these literary techniques to create a flow of her memories and helps her to cope with the changes that have been made in her neighborhood and in her life. The theme of the story is that things always change whether you want them to so you just always have to focus on what is right in front of you, and in this case it was that she could remember…

The poem, “maggie and milly and molly and may” by e.e cummings is about four girls who went to the beach one day. Also, the short story “Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros is a story about a girl named Rachel whose eleventh birthday was taking place. Through the use of different methods, both authors have both similarities and differences with their approaches to help convey the theme in their stories/poems. With the good use their approaches, both of these authors can convey to the reader that the…

all kinds of fun during a birthday celebration. Sometimes people are really excited and other times they are not. It depends on what kind of person they are. In the short story "Eleven" by Sandra Cisneros, we meet a young girl by the name of Rachel on her eleventh birthday. In the short story "Eleven," Cisneros uses literary techniques; simile, language, and imagery in order to characterize Rachel. When the story starts out, the reader can clearly see that Rachel isn't all that excited to…

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…