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    Women Hollering Creek

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    The story I chose was “Women Hollering Creek” by Sandra Cisneros which tells a story of Cleofilas‚ a woman who tries to emulate the life she sees on television and on soap operas. She leaves her home in Mexico and marries a man who takes her to Texas. He works a low paying job and beats and cheats on her‚ even when she giving birth to their children. Cleofilas‚ comes to see this is not the life she wants to live. She is living isolated from her family with no friends or community to help her when

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    In the novel‚ The House on Mango Street‚ Sandra Cisneros‚ shows the importance of education through the different characters in the book the reason education is so important is because you need it so you can have a good job and the second reason is esperanza knows the importance of education and reason three is you need to strive for success. You need an education so u can have a good job and the character Alicia knows this because ¨she does not want to spend her whole life in a factory or behind

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    Notes

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    BookRags Literature Criticism Critical Essay by Jean Wyatt For the online version of BookRags’ Critical Essay by Jean Wyatt Literature Criticism‚ including complete copyright information‚ please visit: http://www.bookrags.com/criticism/cisneros-sandra-1954_4/ Copyright Information ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale‚ a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved. ©2000-2012 BookRags‚ Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Critical Essay by Jean Wyatt SOURCE: "On Not Being La Malinche: Border Negotiations

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    Sexism in Language

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    Rationale The writing depicts the gender role in literature‚ how males are shown to be significantly more dominant‚ physically and mentally. Sexism in literature is ubiquitous‚ in literature and language‚ as well as semiotics in certain cases. Literature from the last two centuries demonstrates a progression. Females were originally portrayed as feeble minded‚ nimble and weak characters‚ with little or no dynamics to their personification. Males were shown to be strong‚ intelligent and domineering

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    However‚ 19-year-old Jason Cisneros ended up losing his life for it. Jason pulled up outside his best friend’s house‚ “Ivania Salguero‚” just after midnight. Salguero states “He sent me a message saying‚ ‘I’m outside’‚ and then he was like‚ there’s a lady honking.’ According to police‚ Cisneros tried to intervene in the fight to protect the women. Salguero then heard gunshots from inside her house. Then‚ he called an ambulance and took him to the hospital‚ unfortunately‚ Cisneros did not survive”(“HPD:Bystander”)

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    A House Is Not a Home

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    reading between the lines one is able to see that the parents have been modifying the truth due to their young age as to not worry them. By telling them that‚ “They had to leave quick because the pipes burst and the house was too old to fix them” (Cisneros)‚ proves that there were ulterior reasons behind why they were forced to move so quickly. The lack of honesty between the parents and the children though it protects them from the less pleasant attributes of the world it also makes them naïve which

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    up in poverty affect a child? In the article “Effects of poverty”... ‚ by the American psychological association they explain and give different ways kids are affected when they are living in poverty. In the novel House on mango street by sandra cisneros‚ it talks about characters like alicia‚lois‚and sally that all live in poverty. Growing up in poverty will affect a child negatively because they won’t have the money to play sports or for school supplies‚ another reason is they may not behave and

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    Rachel believes that she does not have enough life experience to be respected and she often mentions that‚ she wishes she “was one hundred and two” because then she would have the confidence and wisdom to know what to say to her teacher‚ Mrs. Price (Cisneros 1991). This illustrates that‚ the narrator is beyond her years and she knows that with age‚ she will be given more understanding of the world‚ but she doesn’t think that she is wise beyond her years. As a result‚ Rachel has no control in her environment

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    working hard I didn’t want to disappoint him he is working hard every day in labor work; don’t want to give him a reason to believe that I am living life as a joke. Such as the noted author Sandra Cisneros puts it‚ “I’m the only daughter of a family of six boys.” However‚ in my case the only guy. The Cisneros point is that she has a certain duty in which she must fulfill; so as do I. So keeping this identity is crucial of living up to being only

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    moved away to a pretty house outside of the city” (69). Ruthie is a girl‚ so she was expected to marry someone‚ have children‚ and raise them. This suggests that she was a disappointment to others as she was unable to do what society expected of her. Cisneros is clearly suggesting that people like Ruthie were expected many things from

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