Why Does Cisneros Father Believe College
1. Why does Cisneros father believe College can be worthwhile for her?
Cisneros father believes college can be worthwhile for her because it will help her to meet an intelligent husband who will be able to support her and take care of her. Her father really believed in the traditional Mexican values that women were meant to become someone's wife and not to work to support the family.
2. In paragraph 8 Cisneros writes that her father represents the public majority which she envisions as the audience for her writing. Based on what she says about her father how would you characterize that audience? How can you tell Cisneros is writing for them? What clues do you find in the way she addresses the reader and in her tone and diction?
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the audience that Cisneros writes for as one that blends both Mexican and American cultures the way her family did. You can tell by her choice of words the way that she Blends both Spanish and English together that she is trying to communicate some of her traditional Mexican culture.
She says that everything she had ever written had it been written for her father in order to win his approval. All this time her writing had the complete focus of trying to make her father proud. You can tell that the story she had her father read was truly meant for him. It was translated into Spanish, it dealt with the colony where he was raised, and the house he grew up in. And she thought it was so wonderful when he he finally finished reading and asked, “where can we get more copies of this for the relatives?”
You can tell that Cisneros is trying to tell about her culture while also trying to show ways that they were wrong. She wanted to break away from the way her Mexican culture normally was and she did this by becoming educated and successful in spite of all the traditional old beliefs.
3. Cisneros vividly describes her father's hands. Why? What significance do his hands have for the story?
For Cisneros the hands of her father were a living portrait of a man who tortured his body in order to prove what not to do while still providing for his family. She says his hands were yellow and thick and stubbed buy a history of Hammer & Nails and Twine and coils and Springs.
Her father worked hard to pay for the future success of his children and would not easily accept their choice to be well-educated and poor.
His hands represent the hard work that one must endure to provide for their family when they are not educated.
4.
For writing. Have you ever been frustrated trying to gain someone's approval for an activity that is very important to you? Have you ever had a difficult time understanding someone else's Devotion to an activity that means a lot to him or her. But not, personally, to you? Write a narrative in which you select one of these experiences and relate the main events associated with it, using vivid descriptions to make your characters real to your readers.
Yes, unfortunately I was recently very frustrated while trying to gain the approval of an employment company that I was trying to apply for. The company required us to take a series of tests or questionnaires. In the first test I did very well and was able to get approved to move on to the next test. The next test was a series of questions that I felt was extremely unfair. I answered them very honestly and although none of them were entered incorrectly they still consider them imperfect and because of that I was not accepted to the agency.
I still do not understand why they did not accept some of the answers to the questions that I responded to. It seems some companies can be quite biased in the people that they select and not willing to coach or guide you to success regarding very small things that can easily be
corrected.
While I truly want this to succeed and I took the small setback very personally I learned a great deal from it and will not repeat the mistakes of the past in the future.
In regard with if I could ever not understand a person's Devotion to a specific activity that means a lot to them… I find I can almost always understand the reason that someone does something. While I may not always agree with it I can definitely understand why almost everyone does the things they do by talking to them and learning about their past and current environment. By doing that you can get a great understanding on what the person thinks and the reasons why they behave the way they do.
Cisneros father believes college can be worthwhile for her because it will help her to meet an intelligent husband who will be able to support her and take care of her. Her father really believed in the traditional Mexican values that women were meant to become someone's wife and not to work to support the family.
2. In paragraph 8 Cisneros writes that her father represents the public majority which she envisions as the audience for her writing. Based on what she says about her father how would you characterize that audience? How can you tell Cisneros is writing for them? What clues do you find in the way she addresses the reader and in her tone and diction?
I would think …show more content…
the audience that Cisneros writes for as one that blends both Mexican and American cultures the way her family did. You can tell by her choice of words the way that she Blends both Spanish and English together that she is trying to communicate some of her traditional Mexican culture.
She says that everything she had ever written had it been written for her father in order to win his approval. All this time her writing had the complete focus of trying to make her father proud. You can tell that the story she had her father read was truly meant for him. It was translated into Spanish, it dealt with the colony where he was raised, and the house he grew up in. And she thought it was so wonderful when he he finally finished reading and asked, “where can we get more copies of this for the relatives?”
You can tell that Cisneros is trying to tell about her culture while also trying to show ways that they were wrong. She wanted to break away from the way her Mexican culture normally was and she did this by becoming educated and successful in spite of all the traditional old beliefs.
3. Cisneros vividly describes her father's hands. Why? What significance do his hands have for the story?
For Cisneros the hands of her father were a living portrait of a man who tortured his body in order to prove what not to do while still providing for his family. She says his hands were yellow and thick and stubbed buy a history of Hammer & Nails and Twine and coils and Springs.
Her father worked hard to pay for the future success of his children and would not easily accept their choice to be well-educated and poor.
His hands represent the hard work that one must endure to provide for their family when they are not educated.
4.
For writing. Have you ever been frustrated trying to gain someone's approval for an activity that is very important to you? Have you ever had a difficult time understanding someone else's Devotion to an activity that means a lot to him or her. But not, personally, to you? Write a narrative in which you select one of these experiences and relate the main events associated with it, using vivid descriptions to make your characters real to your readers.
Yes, unfortunately I was recently very frustrated while trying to gain the approval of an employment company that I was trying to apply for. The company required us to take a series of tests or questionnaires. In the first test I did very well and was able to get approved to move on to the next test. The next test was a series of questions that I felt was extremely unfair. I answered them very honestly and although none of them were entered incorrectly they still consider them imperfect and because of that I was not accepted to the agency.
I still do not understand why they did not accept some of the answers to the questions that I responded to. It seems some companies can be quite biased in the people that they select and not willing to coach or guide you to success regarding very small things that can easily be
corrected.
While I truly want this to succeed and I took the small setback very personally I learned a great deal from it and will not repeat the mistakes of the past in the future.
In regard with if I could ever not understand a person's Devotion to a specific activity that means a lot to them… I find I can almost always understand the reason that someone does something. While I may not always agree with it I can definitely understand why almost everyone does the things they do by talking to them and learning about their past and current environment. By doing that you can get a great understanding on what the person thinks and the reasons why they behave the way they do.