Sandra Cisneros Essay

As kids we all want our parents to be proud of who we are and what we become. Everything we do, we try to make them happy because it allows us to feel better about ourselves. After reading “Only Daughter” by Sandra Cisneros, I noticed that in one of the paragraphs Cisneros states that she does all her writing for her dad. In the beginning, I wondered why she stated this. Why not write your stories for yourself; If she enjoys writing so much why does she care so much about what her dad thinks?…

In Sandra Cisneros’s article, Only Daughter, she writes about herself and how her father and society saw women in the 1990s. She begins her writing by mentioning that she had six brothers but even if she had six brothers, she was still lonely since her brothers were embarrassed to play with their sister. So when Cisneros suggested that she would attend college, her father was overjoyed because he thought that this was the perfect time for her to find a husband. But as years go by and finally…

Comparison Paper Race is something that has separated us a people since creation. From biblical times to now racial matters have always cause a problem no matter where you are. Here we can see two stories Sandra Cisneros “Mericans” and ZZ Packer’s “Brownies” dealing with racial matters in America. As one can tell by the titles one deals with the Mexican culture and if one were to take a guess the other dealt with African American culture hence the name brownies. While these were written during…

In The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros uses different stylistic techniques to convey an effect on the reader. Cisneros and I use sensory details and alliteration to establish mood and theme. When describing the atmosphere and environment during a birthday party, I use sensory detail, “The roller skating rink was a frenzy of lights and sounds from arcade games and 70’s music playing” (Gyawali). The reader gets a nostalgic, but excited mood from the auditory and visual imagery. This…

daughter of a family with different ideas as your family and having to be alone by an age gap is rough, especially to Esperanza. In these vignettes by the author Sandra Cisneros, describes a young, teen girl by the name of Esperanza who journeys through tough times to meet friends and find who she is. Through figurative language, Cisneros writes about the experiences Esperanza goes through day to day in her life living in a “House on Mango Street.” In the vignette “Louie, His Cousin & His…

In “A Silence between Us like a Language: The Untranslatability of Experience in Sandra Cisneros Woman Hollering Creek “, Mullen describes the use of Spanish as an insight of the individual character’s true, conscious thoughts without the limitation of cultural incrimination. “Like a joke or a Freudian slip of the tongue that reveals some…

Sandra Cisneros and Reyna Grande through their subjective narratives emphasize the important contributions that migration played about their family relations and the development of their personal identity. Both authors touch upon similar themes relating to transnationalism and liminal identities, however they greatly differentiate when discussing the factor of citizenship and mobility. Cisneros is born in the U.S. while Reyna Grande is born in Mexico and later migrates to the U.S. as an…

Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, the role of women is discussed. Esperanza is a girl who is not proud of who she is and is still trying to find her place. Through her struggles, she often looks up to the women she grows up with. Esperaza has a variety of female roles in her life. Many are trapped in abusive relationships, waiting for others to change their lives. Some are actively trying to change things on their own. Through these women and Esperanza’s reactions to them, Cisneros shows the…

give ourselves to any man that comes into our life. We as the latino community are left with questions but we were too ashamed or scared to ask them, which led to many pregnant teens and abusive relationships. B. V Olguin in the poem “Boys’ and Sandra Cisneros in her essay “Guadalupe the Sex Goddess” used their teen experiences to show us sexuality within their culture. Teens’ minds start wandering during puberty, like why is hair growing or why are we bleeding from “down there?” We are also…

are faced with throughout their lifetime.Sandra Cisneros, a Mexican -American novelist, poet, and short story writer, grew up in Chicago during the 1960’s; she was divided between her Mexican and American cultures. Cisneros focuses her literary works on the Latino experience and women’s experience in the United States as well as topics such as oppression, poverty, and feminism. She has won many awards for her accomplishments in literature. Cisneros’ life impacted her works because of her…