In the story “Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros is a story told as from the eyes of an eleven year old girl. The narrator at times‚ gives the reader the feeling you are really reading a story written by an eleven girl and not a grown woman. One can tell this by the author’s word choices throughout the story. Like the narrator repeatedly uses the word “stupid”‚ which to me is a word an eleven year old would really use. As she describes multiple things as “stupid”‚ such as describing her classmate Sylvia
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In the short story‚ "Tepeyac" by Sandra Cisneros while the narrators are walking home with her grandfather from his shop‚ she is describing the places and the people they come to pass. When walking to their house they count the steps from the street to their front door together and they go to eat dinner together‚ then she says she will return to the U.S. Her grandfather will die‚ everything will die‚ everything will change‚ she feels like it’s irretrievable‚ and when she returns‚ years later‚
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In the short story "Mexico‚" the author Sandra Cisneros uses very long‚ detailed sentences as a form of syntax‚ which is the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language‚ and uses descriptive words to set the mood‚ theme‚ and setting of her short story‚ which is called diction. Cisneros’ style and usage of syntax and diction are critical elements to the short story. In "Mexico‚" Cisneros uses long‚ elaborate‚ descriptive sentences to move from one memory of
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Should we learn to read and analyze more complex as time goes on‚ or should we learn to write simpler for the sake of society? Sandra Fisher-Martins emphasizes that there is a serious dilemma in Portugal: too many people can’t read official legal documents. Sandra Fisher-Martins tells a story of how she was baffled at some of her everyday legal documents like the electricity bill and her work documents. She was baffled because she had to reread the papers a few times before grasping
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In the novel “Eleven”‚ by Sandra Cisneros‚ she writes a powerful piece about Rachel’s eleventh birthday and the struggle she had to go through on her important day. As most see their birthday to be a joyful experience‚ Rachel fights for her maturity and age to be shown and understood but fails. When she turns eleven she felt as if all the other ages did not go away such as the layers of an onion. Each year a new layer is added and while she displays her immaturity from her younger ages she still
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In both of the text about Okita’s poem and "Mericans" by Sandra Cisneros basically both talks about American Identity because if you go back in the poem and read Okitas poem it speaks on American identity more than anything else and how she had experience culture differently from others because where she came from it seem to be a generation thing in the family and how it was is where ever your family was from that was where you was from. Okita’s poem also has a little bit to do with culture heritage
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instability resulting from a breakdown of standards and values; also: personal unrest‚ alienation‚ and uncertainty that comes from a lack of purpose or ideals; also: outside framework of society. In the movie L.A. Gangs it gave a great background on what gang life is about and the movie gave a background on what gangs are capable of doing to their community. A gang is look to as a replacement of family and a form of survival. Being a gang member means getting respect. Gang members start off
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Have you ever struggled on standing up for yourself? Sometimes people don’t have the courage to stand up for themselves when challenged with problems. In the story “ Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros‚ the main character‚ Rachel‚ is faced with many challenges that she doesn’t face at school and challenges that she doesn’t face with her fellow classmates. For example‚ Rachel loses herself when challenged by her teacher‚ Mrs. Price. So there was an ugly old sweater that had been sitting in the locker room
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Car Crash While Hitchhiking In the story “Car Crash While Hitchhiking” by Denis Johnson wrote the story talking about a man who is a drug addict who soon recovers from the addiction after a car crash. The drug addict is also the narrator in the story and claims to be able to see the future‚ the story jumps from time to time talking about different days. When reading the story I found 2 themes in the story; death and love. The main characters in the story were the drug addict and the married man
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Mark Zelayaran English Honors 1A Mrs. Breckheimer. Crash a film critique The film “Crash” produced and directed by Paul Haggis is a compilation of clever vignettes all throughout the film and for most they undergo some change; however‚ for the change to occur the film shows the human side of certain characters. The film is a compilation of lives of various characters in a course of a day in the city of Los Angeles. Although racism‚ discrimination and prejudice is constantly used all throughout
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