Sandra Cisneros

What defines an American? Is it what a person looks like? Is it where a person comes from? These are the questions that Dwight Okita and Sandra Cisneros try to answer in their writings. Okita's, "Response to Executive Order 9066," is about how some Japanese Americans reacted to the executive order that made it legal to put Japanese Americans in internment camps during World War II. Cisneros's, "Mericans," is about how a little girl has to deal with many people judging her and a grandma who hates…

In the story “’Mericans” by Sandra Cisneros the setting symbolizes how Mexican-Americans, in this case, Micaela and her siblings, live in between two different worlds without being completely accepted into either the Mexican or the American culture. The fact that there are only two settings in the story along with the interactions with their grandma and the tourists and the references made about pop culture, gives enough evidence to support the idea that setting of the story serves as a symbol…

Eleven by Sandra Cisneros characterizes Rachel’s feeling by using rhetorical devices. In the beginning of the story Rachel was not excited about her turning eleven. Rachel believe’s that you aren’t just eleven you are also ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, and one year old. Throughout Eleven Cisneros uses simile, repetition and dialogue plus many more rhetorical devices. Throughout the story I will explain how Cisneros characterizes Rachel’s feelings. First off, in…

society embraces this inequality until it becomes a part of the structure of society. Sandra Cisneros and Amy Tan’s characters both represent the structural oppression of women and how they question and challenge gender roles through their relationship with men. According to CliffNotes, gender roles “are cultural and personal. They determine how males and females should think, speak, dress, and interact within…

Wicked Truths Why is it that sometimes the truth can make people feel terrible? Even though it was a terrible truth, do people forgive, and moved on? Well, there is a poem named “My Wicked, Wicked Ways” by Sandra Cisneros explaining how people can forgive, but they will never forget. The poem starts off with the daughter, who is also the narrator of the poem, describing how handsome her father is and how happy her family photograph looks. After the family photograph, she then explains how her…

while they are on the journey to personal acceptance. In Sandra Cisneros's’ short story “Barbie-Q,” the narrator’s insecurities…

Jose Burciaga vs. Sandra Cisneros The Hispanic Culture is one of the most colorful and respected cultures of the world. Hispanic families still keep some old traditions. For example “el machismo” still is present in many families. Other traditions that came over centuries. Burciaga and Cisneros present some examples in their stories of how the culture has changed over the years, and what others are still intact and continue generation-to-generation. The story by Sandra Cisneros “Only…

eople think reading and writing isn’t important in life and is just boring. In the stories of Frederick Douglass, Malcolm X, and Sandra Cisneros they all had similarities thoughts about how reading involved in their personal lives and without it they wouldn’t be where they are at right now. They had to change people’s or person perspective in order to have a change in their lives.Of course they had similarities and difference but they all had a plan on how reading/ writing could change their…

***“Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden.”*** In the story Eleven by Sandra Cisneros Rachel struggles to see things aren’t always the way they seem to be. Like when is your birthday and you're teacher is mean. Rachel struggles to see thing aren't always the way they seem to be because it was her birthday. Like when Sylvia said that ugly sweater belongs to Rachal’s. Also when mrs.Price belived…

In Sandra Cisneros’ “The House on Mango Street”, in the vignette “Born Bad”, Aunt Lupe encourages Esperanza to continue to write because writing will “keep you free”. Writing can be an avenue of freedom in so many ways. Writing has the power to make a person feel as if they are escaping a prison in their mind full of words and phrases that they do not know what to do with. The second they write down those words and phrases they are free of themselves and their thoughts. Another way writing can…