Sandra Cisneros

Chapter 1 - Pick Up Lines and Open(ing) Seduction Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front begins the chapter with Paul Baumer and his classmates replenishing themselves with dietary needs. According to Foster’s How to Read Novels Like a Professor, “...first sentence...It establishes the main family of the novel…” (24). With that in mind, Remarque has already implied that the time frame should be around a place of war: “We are at rest five miles behind the front” (1). Remarque…

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…

Rafaela is an attractive woman who was locked inside her house like Rapunzel. Her husband doesn’t want her leaving the house because he fears that she will flee since she is too beautiful. On Tuesday nights, her husband isn’t in the house since he plays dominoes. Locked inside, she can hear music from the bar on the corner, a place she wishes she could go before she gets old. She leans on the window and drops a dollar, then she asks some kids if they can get some coconut or papaya juice from the…

I encounter them every day. I eat lunch with them. I ride the bus home with them. They are everywhere and the more I listen, the more I hear them: Hispanic adolescents who can’t speak proper spanish. “EN LA CASA SE HABLA ESPAÑOL!” Growing up, I couldn't speak a full sentence in english before my parents hit me with: “AT HOME WE SPEAK SPANISH!” Given that I had strict parents and I was an obedient child, I managed to maintain my native spanish tongue intact. In fact, it has only gotten broader…

environment. However, despite her many disadvantages, online the protagonist in the other story, she is able to understand her situation and escape, by leaving Mango street. Both, “The Chrysanthemums” by John Steinbeck and The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros are stories revolving around women living in times where they were not considered equal, were not as free as men, and were thus plagued in multitudes of ways by their families and societies. Despite the difference in race and age…

spending time with the Na’vi enough for him to sacrifice sleep and his human life to consider himself and be accepted as one of the Na’vi’s family. This film expresses that one can change who they are to become part of something else. In contrast, Sandra Cisneros's “Woman Hollering Creek” Cleofilas wanted to withdraw from Juan Sanchez’s life due to the collapsing relationship they were going through, caused by the two spending so much time together, signifying that the more time spent with each…

hoja de lata. No speak English, no speak English. No, no, no. Y rompe a llorar” (Cisneros, 38). Mamacita is angry that her grandson is speaking the language of the country that has refused to accept her culture that’s deeper than music and food. To Mamacita, speaking the English language is a way of saying to American society, “Yes, I’ll speak just like you and conform to your ways.” In the chapter, Mi Nombre, Cisneros writes, “At school they say my name funny as if the syllables were made out…

value and rather that focusing on pursuing a career or aspiring to be better they should focus on learning to meet needs of their family or husband. Alicia knows she wants more for herself and pushes to break free from the life expected of her. Cisnero writes, “Alice who inherited her mother’s rolling pin and sleepiness, is young and smart and studies for the first time at the university.Two trains and a bus, because she doesn’t want to spend her whole life in a factory or behind a rolling…

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…

changing her name was a crucial first step. Deeper into the novel, she becomes more sexually conscious. “In the movies there is always one with red red lips who is beautiful and cruel. She is the one that drives the men crazy and laughs them all away” (Cisneros, pg.89). In this quote, Esperanza is expressing that she wants to be beautiful and cruel so men will like her. Unfortunately, due to a turns of events, she is assaulted and loses her sense of identity and does not want to associate…