Summary Of Storytelling Through Different Eyes And Culture By Sandra Cisneros

Storytelling through Different Eyes and Cultures
Sandra Cisneros has greatly established herself as the best-read U.S. Latina writer, with her well known novel Caramelo she brings to readers the inside lives of a Mexican-American. When Cisneros starts off her novel she automatically starts mentioning bright colors, such as all of these comparisons with color, they are powerfully displayed by the image of the rebozo. We will encounter the rebozo in this novel frequently. Ethnicity has been a symbolic and evolving presence in Cisneros’s texts. She uses the rebozo as a symbolic item to show the reader the motif of being a woman. The rebozo in Caramelo serves as a representation of Cisneros’ culture as a symbolic piece, being unraveled and then
The family ends in Destiny Street and the real woman of Destiny Street and is the engine that powers the entire plot is the “Awful Grandmother,” who has an excessive amount of love for her eldest son. The Awful Grandmother has great significance in the storytelling of the rebozo in this novel. The rebozo represents the Awful Grandmother’s childhood and roots, which was she was left with when her mother dies. The rebozo represents the Awful Grandmother’s roots because as a young child her mother was a well known woman for selling and making intricate rebozos. The day her mother dies all that she left was an unfinished piece of rebozo that was given to the grandmother. It represents her childhood roots because it shows the reader how the grandmother grew up and later we see that the unraveling and knotting of the rebozo is somewhat like the grandmothers life. The frequent mentioning of the rebozo plays a sense of a time