as a stagehand and director and judge and executor in a text‚ I find somehow unacceptable." This relates to The House on Mango Street in a sense that Cisneros’ writing is acceptable because she let’s Esperanza tell the story‚ only clueing in a few times. There are times where she tries to sound childish‚ but it is clearly stated. In Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street‚ Esperanza depicts her uncertainty through metaphors‚ imagery‚ and diction. The authors metaphors depict the child-like ambiguity
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American ethnic literature can be identified as literature written by an American author who writes about cultural issues in America. “Native born individuals whose literary careers are pursued in the United States and whose work reflects American themes and issues (however broadly defined) indisputably qualify as American writers” (McQuade‚ Atwan‚ & Banta‚ 1999‚ p.2811). Being native born in America does not mean however that these authors did not grow up in a culturally rich environment. America
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Whilst‚ the poem by Sandra Cisneros and the Russian folk tale retold by Leo Tolstoy share the same message and a few other similarities‚ they also have a moderate amount differences. The
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gender roles that encompasses not only women but men. “My great-grandfather threw a sack over her head and carried her off...She (Esperanza’s grandmother) looked out the window her whole life‚ the way so many women sit their sadness on an elbow.” (11) Cisneros brings attention to the cruel way that men in Esperanza’s society treat women. The normality of these discriminatory actions describes a gender role that society has set for men‚ to be the dominant figure in
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For me‚ the story Eleven definitely brought back the fears that I too experienced as a child. Sandra Cisneros does a fantastic job of portraying the unfairness and injustice we all had to experience throughout our childhood. It is certainly not Rachel’s sweater but nobody‚ not ever her own teacher will believe her. Her image is in jeopardy here‚ I mean she’s eleven years old and image is everything to an eleven year old girl. Every paragraph in the story illustrates exactly how a young adolescent
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Only Daughter In the essay entitled “Only Daughter” by Sandra Cisneros‚ she wrote about her life growing up in a Mexican-American family of nine; to which she was the only daughter. Although her father did love her‚ he did not show it much at all. The effects on Cisneros’s life due to her father’s lack of attention while growing up were: Spending time alone‚ attending college‚ and becoming a professional writer. The first important effect due to Cisneros’s father’s lack of attention was
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FIRST INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT OF BUSINESS COMMUNICATION | | | SUBMITTED BY: POOJA SHRESTHA | BBA-BISECTION- A | SEMESTER-1 | 12/6/2011 | | My mother never worked COMPREHENSSSION 1. What kind of work did Martha Smith do while her children were growing up? List some of the chores she performed? The writer Donna Smith-Yackel’s mother did lots of work throughout her life. She was a mother of more than half dozen of children. While her children were growing up she had to
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hopes she doesn’t end up like her great grandmother because “She looked out the window her whole life‚ the way so many women sit their sadness on an elbow... Esperanza. I have inherited her name‚ but I don’t want to inherit her place by the window” (Cisneros “My Name”). This represents the traditional gender roles that lead to women being trapped inside her life full of inequalities. The women can’t do anything other than sit by the window on their free time. The window represents the woman’s place in
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can do anything that they put their minds to despite society’s view on cultural beliefs. At least that’s what I believe. Only a few‚ however‚ break out of the conventional norm that their families or others perceive of them. Two Authors‚ Sandra Cisneros‚ in her autobiography “Only Daughter”‚ and Sherman Alexie in his autobiography “Superman and Me”‚ would prove that regardless of cultural or family beliefs anything is possible. Sandra and Sherman shared something in common‚ they both loved and
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