Sandra Cisneros‚ the award-winning author of the highly acclaimed The House on Mango Street and several other esteemed works‚ has produced a stunning new novel‚ Caramelo. This long-anticipated novel is an all-embracing epic of family history‚ Mexican history‚ the immigrant experience‚ and a young Mexican-American woman’s road to adulthood. We hope the following introduction‚ discussion questions‚ suggested reading list‚ and author biography enhance your group’s reading of this captivating and masterful
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Coming of Age in Novels by Rudolfo Anaya and Sandra Cisneros Author(s): Dianne Klein Source: The English Journal‚ Vol. 81‚ No. 5 (Sep.‚ 1992)‚ pp. 21-26 Published by: National Council of Teachers of English Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/819890 . Accessed: 02/06/2014 07:58 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars
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Theme Essay Growing up‚ everyone expects it as this unbelievably spontaneous thing . In Sandra Cisneros book “The house on Mango Street” states that growing up can happen to people variously‚ in good and bad ways. In the pages 46- 57 there is a lot of growing up in many of the characters especially Esperanza. Esperanza gets her first job‚ during her break time she mingles with an oriental man; “ He grabs my face with both hands and kisses me hard on the mouth‚”(55). Esperanza has just gotten her
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I will be comparing Sandra Cisneros from the story Eleven and June from the story Tuesday of the Other June. Both of them have different struggles in their difficult lives. June and Sandra both have struggles in their lives. June is being bullied by another girl named June in the story. June has to move to a new school and house. Sandra has to wear an ugly sweater that isn’t hers‚ her teacher is making Sandra wear the ugly sweater that and that made Sandra start to cry. Sandra feels that nobody understands
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Interpretation of “My Number” by Billy Collins Billy Collins’ poem‚ “My Number” combines the use of personification and imagery to illustrate the uneasy feeling of uncertainty in regard to Death and its imminence. The persona is waiting in constant fear for Death’s arrival‚ as he is clearly not ready for Death to find him. Collins uses personification in the first stanza when he writes the following: Is Death… reaching for a widow in Cincinnati or breathing down the neck of a lost hiker in
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drive to gender violence cases. These two forms of sexism are very conspicuous in The House on Mango Street. The sexist prejudice is clear right from the beginning of the novel. On page 10‚ Esperanza‚ the narrator‚ explains the meaning of her name with the connection to the Chinese culture‚ and she says “I think this is a Chinese lie because the Chinese‚ like the Mexicans‚ don’t like their women strong”. In many of the next chapters‚ we can see that some men on Mango
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Function/s of Space in Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street Space occupies a central role in Sandra Cisneros’ coming-of-age novel The House on Mango Street. Using the example of the house shows this very plainly. This can be seen at the very beginning of the book‚ namely the title. Although it is a female Bildungsroman‚ the novel is not named after its protagonist Esperanza Cordero‚ but her residence. It shows that Cisneros attached much importance to the house on Mango Street and the reader
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My name comes from a small tribe in Nigeria. It means alert is the language. My father was born in Africa where the name is heard more frequently. My mother travelled out there with my dad and picked a name for their child. There were many names to choose from‚ so they picked the one that everyone will mispronounce when they get back into the states. Over the years I acquired many different nicknames one of which I am still using. Some of my favorites have to be Vesh or V. There are many that
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Evolution of My Name and Its Purpose to My Identity Names are one of the most important qualities a person retains during their life on earth‚ and their time in society. The way a person’s name originates‚ usually has unique story of how it originated. After living in society for a couple years‚ people may attain nicknames. The way a person is nicknamed or named by other people‚ depends on who they are‚ and what kind of relationship the person has with that person. Also a person’s name is a mark
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