Sandra Cisneros Research Paper

Sandra Cisneros, born in Chicago on December 20, 1954 is a renowned Latin-American novelist who is best known for her novel “The House on Mango Street.” Throughout her childhood Cisneros and her six brothers were frequently bouncing from home to home, each time in a seemingly worse neighborhood. Although Cisneros moved on to earn many academic accolades in her adult life, she struggled to maintain good grades at the Catholic school she attended in Chicago. However, once she attended high school she became interested with poetry and became the magazine editor of her school, and eventually moved on to earn her bachelor's degree from Loyola University in 1976.

Cisneros recalls that it wasn’t until she earned began working towards her master’s