"BREAD" SANDRA CISNEROS I question whether these two people in the story are having an affair‚ back together after a divorce‚ or whatever? Something as simple as bread can lead to that answer. The bread is much like their relationship‚ actually exactly like it. "We were hungry. We went into a Bakery on Grand Avenue and bought bread. Filled the backseat. The whole car smelled of bread. Big sourdough loaves shaped like a fat ass"(Cisneros 84). It was an affair. They were lusting each other and finally
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In the narrative "The House On Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros Esperanza goes through some troubles in the reading. In my time of being alive I have also gone through troubles that are similar and also different. First‚ she moved into different house as a child allot. When I was a kid we never really stayed in one place‚ we also moved around and I would always change schools which made it hard to keep and make friends just like her. Second‚ Esperanza did not like her home just because it was falling
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In the story "Pilon‚" by Sandra Cisneros‚ she sets the scene by describing her case of Deja vu and starts describing an organ grinder which makes everyone remember a loved one which the tone must be sad due to the fact some people would remember the loss of a child or other family member. By pulling the reader’s attention to the music and how the instrument makes everyone feel Cisneros is trying to set the mood and a setting to the story. The reference of the to the red Rubicon is based on a roman
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Where you live should not determine how you feel about yourself. In Sandra Cisneros “The house on Mango Street” Esperanza’s was a young girl living in poverty who was embarrassed of where she lived. When a nun saw her playing outside and asked her where she lived she felt as though the nun judged her and disapproved of where she lived “you live there? The way she said it made me feel like nothing”(Cisneros5) Esperanza was already dissatisfied with the three bedroom house that her and her six family
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flawless bottle blonde” (Katie Atkinson). Women are willing to spend hours in the bathroom to be prepared for the day to look like a model when only traveling to the corner store is a real fascination. Most would not even walk out of the house without makeup on in fear they will be judged by their appearance. The short story‚ Barbie Q written by Sandra Cisneros‚ also shows the concept of girls trying to be “perfect.” It shows two girls trying to dress up their dolls to look high class. They spend so
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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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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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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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