have read two poems about someone growing old and sick. It is a very serious topic because of what is destined to happen. Death. That’s why it is very important to spend time with your loved ones while you still can. “Abuelito Who?” written by Sandra Cisneros is a poem about a grandfather that used to be very involved and lively and
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Sandra Cisneros is a Mexican-American writer and poet. She uses many themes in her writing that reflect her style and life experiences such as coming of age and many more. Her unique and distinct writing styles include: vignettes‚ bilingualism‚ lack of a narrator‚ textual fragments‚ perspective switching and much more. Sandra Cisneros uses bilingualism in her writing. She often uses Spanish words instead of English words‚ or English words for Spanish words‚ sometimes a combination of both. She often
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talked about in conversations or written about; but Sandra Cisneros has‚ very charmingly and humorously‚ taken this subject and turned it into one of the situations her famous character‚ Esperanza‚ goes through in her book‚ The House on Mango Street. In her short story titled simply “Hips”‚ Sandra Cisneros tells the story of Esperanza and three other girls discussing theories of what hips are and what functions they have; but more importantly Cisneros is subtly exploring what kind of divide the ripening
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by themselves‚ but by their family member’s. That is the first gift the baby owns and of course‚ it is free‚ but not everybody takes the free gift if they don’t like it. Just like me and the girl I had read about in the article‚ “My Name‚" by Sandra Cisneros. We both don’t like our names because our names are not English names; indeed‚ it’s the different culture name. In “My Name‚” Esperanza is the girl‚ who has a meaningful name in English but still‚ she doesn’t like it. Esperanza hates her name
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The imprisonment of Frederick Douglass‚ Malcolm X‚ and Sandra Cisneros affected their literacy. In all of the essays‚ the three authors talk about their experience of being imprisoned. In the three essays‚ Frederick Douglass writes of himself when he was a 12 year old in slavery‚ Malcolm X writes of his experience in an actual prison‚ and Sandra Cisneros writes of her time being left alone by her family. While they share the similarity of being imprisoned they differ in the way this imprisonment
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“Only Daughter‚” written by Sandra Cisneros. Both female Hispanic authors talk about how they divided their childhood between two countries and the meaning of being a woman in their cultures. They also describe family structures and relationships between parents and children in an immigrant family. Judith Ortiz Cofer was born in the small town of Hormigueros‚ Puerto Rico. She came to the U.S with her parents and they settled in Paterson‚ New Jersey. Similar to Cisneros‚ she had a divided childhood
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each time. Once these people began to learn to read and write their minds opened up to the world around them revealing how cruel it really was. Some of the people that opened up their eyes to real world were: Frederick Douglass‚ Malcolm X‚ And Sandra Cisneros‚ of which‚ wrote about all of their painful experiences of before they learned to be literate and also after in their own autobiographies. Frederick Douglass‚ a former slave‚ lived during the time where slavery was allowed but yet figured out
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people get a chance to honor themselves around people they love and look forward to another great year. Sandra Cisneros‚ the author of the st ory‚ Eleven‚ portrays herself as Rachel‚ an eleven year old girl who wishes to be one hundred and two years old. Rachel dislikes the red sweater described numerous times within the story. The red sweater creates major conflict between Mrs. Price and Rachel. Cisneros characterizes Rachel’s feelings about her eleventh birthday using rhetorical devices such as a simile
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Mr. Gonzales‚ my trendy teacher decided to assign The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. I dismissed the book as another tale of a white dude learning about his “tragic life” but soon I discovered that this was not the case. Those following days‚ I sat by the window and found a deeper meaning in this book‚ which embodied my culture in the realistic light along with a reassurance of my identity. Sandra Cisneros‚ the writer who awakened my rehabilitation from a harsh identity crisis and lack
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You live in a Latino section of Chicago‚ and you want to leave but you’re stuck. This is how Esperanza Cordero feels‚ “A red balloon tied to an anchor.”The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros are stories of her young life told in a series of vignettes. Esperanza is independent and wants to defy the social norms and expectations. Esperanza is trying to escape being married off‚ social order‚ and her sexuality. Many of Esperanza’s friends have been married off by their parents‚ or they got married
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