In The House On Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, the author describes the life in a Latino neighborhood through a series of vignettes. She talks about perspective, growing up, and education, among other topics. Esperanza seems just mature enough to understand what is happening around her but not mature enough to understand why. She wants to be free of the semi-educated situation that she is stuck in, she has figured out that the only way out of this would be education. In the chapter “Alicia…
prison and how the experience helped him meet his expectations of himself and of the African American community. He explains his life in prison as a time in which he transitioned himself from uneducated to educated by the use of literature and writing. Sandra Cisnero’s “Only Daughter” reviews the expectations that her father had for her life and how this was something that she always wanted to fulfill and his approval was what she strived for. Despite growing up in a household with six sons, she…
In my senior thesis, “An Identity Journey of My Own: Transnationalism, Identity Journeys and Liminality in Sandra Cisneros and Reyna Grande’s Work”, I survey Cisneros’ memoir A House of My Own: Stories from My Life (2015) and novel Caramelo (2002). Additionally, I engaged Cisneros work into a comparison dialogue with Grande’s The Distance Between Us: A Memoir (2013) along with her fictional texts Across a Hundred Mountains (2006). As indicated by the title, through an interdisciplinary approach…
Born in a family of Mexican immigrants, Sandra Cisneros discovers her niche in the American literature by writing from her experience as an immigrant growing at the confluence of two cultures. Until her teenager years, Cisneros’ family moves back and forth from Chicago to Mexico, making her feel not integrated in either culture. As Robin Ganz declares, Cisneros “derived inspiration from her cultural specificity and found her voice in the dingy rooms of her house on Mango Street, on the cruel but…
children’s unique qualities such as gender (Marco Del Giudice). In Only Daughter, Sandra Cisneros highlights the challenges associated with growing up as an isolated child in a Mexican-American family. As an only daughter in a family of nine members, the author outlines her struggle to achieve recognition from a father who seemed to value male children at the expense of daughters. The author’s father rarely referred to Sandra Cisneros as her daughter. Instead, he usually asserted that he had…
Many people living in a poor neighborhood wish to not stay there long. Such an idea is understandable because they want to leave behind a life they are ashamed of and live a life they can be proud of and show off. In her novel, Sandra Cisneros shows what a life of poverty and disappointments can be like. Through the work, we watch the main character always wish of a house to have of her own and not to live a life she is ashamed of. Throughout the novella, it is easy to see that a significant…
House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, Esperanza grows up and becomes an independent young woman all from her own hard work. At the same time, the story The Awakening by Kate Chopin portrays the young woman, Edna, as someone who is finally realizing her potential, but since society frowns upon a woman being so independent she defaults to…
these in life is what help us learn, grow and mature. We all have different experiences, different over comings. Sandra Cisneros, the author that wrote, “Woman Hollering Creek”, wrote about a woman’s life. The woman thought that her married life would be happy, but it only worsened. She became a victim of physical abuse. Abuse coming from her own husband. Like this woman, in Cisneros’ story, I too am a victim… A victim of emotional abuse. I was once in an emotional abuse relationship. I was…
Sandra Cisneros’ work Woman Hollering Creek and other stories embodies what it is like in all stages of life as a woman on both sides of the Mexican border. The women 's personal stories as they get older in life show signs of violence, whether mentally, physically or emotionally. “Woman Hollering Creek” and “Never Marry a Mexican” show the violent relationship men and women share, and why Cisneros chose to represent it this way. The story Woman Hollering Creek describes a woman named…
there is a bowl of skittles and five of them are poisonous, would anyone grab a handful and risk eating them? Is it really possible to compare actual human beings to a candy and base an entire argument on the risk? In “Woman Hollering Creek” by Sandra Cisneros and “Outlaw” by Jose Antonio Vargas, both authors shed light on what it is like to be an immigrant, whether legal or undocumented, the reality of being an American immigrant means being in a liminal place as a person because of cultural…