Sandra Cisneros: Writer and Activist Mexican-American writer Sandra Cisneros is the preeminent Latina writer in the U.S. today. Cisneros has written two novels‚ a collection of short stories‚ and three books of poetry. Her earlier works‚ the short novel The House on Mango Street (1984) and the collection of short stories Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (1991)‚ were responsible for establishing her wide readership and winning Cisneros major publishing contracts and major advances on her
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The speaker in "Tepeyac" by Sandra Cisneros the story describes‚ in present tense‚ a typical weekday evening spent in Mexico in the past.City where she lives or is staying with her grandparents. The story is first person‚ the setting is northern part of Mexico City at a market (plaza) and the two vocabulary I picked from the story is arabesque and sastreria. The vocabulary word definitions are sastreria is tailor’s shop‚ and arabesque means branch out in complex‚ intertwining lines. So the plot or
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“Eleven” and “Spotlight” are quite similar in style‚ but not in voice. They may have the same revolving theme of mean teachers and breakdowns‚ but the tones they take and even the sentence structure they have is completely different. “Eleven” is a story by Sandra Cisneros‚ which is about a girl named Rachel and an ugly red sweater. While in class‚ Rachel’s teacher is asking the class whose red sweater it is. Rachel is seemingly the only one in class that doesn’t say that it’s hers‚ which makes
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Turning points are events in people’s life that can affect their life in good or bad way. In “Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros‚ “Middle School Loneliness”‚ and Hatchet by Gary Paulsen had all faced life changing events (Turning Points). They all adapted to their turning point‚ but it wasn’t easy doing so. “Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros is a drama about the main character‚ Rachel‚turning eleven‚ but still feels ten‚ nine‚ eight‚ seven‚ six‚ five‚ four‚ three‚ two‚ one. Rachel’s turning point is
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In Sandra Cisneros’ short story “Eleven‚” Rachel’s transition into adolescence is filled with anxiety and conflict‚ though she understands that the experience it brings will help her deal with difficult situations. Her building anxiety becomes more apparent after Mrs. Price accuses her of owning the red sweater; she is unsure of how to respond to her teacher‚ and as a result she suddenly feels “sick inside‚ like the part of [her] that’s three wants to come out of [her] eyes” (Cisneros 35). The red
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The story Eleven written by Sandra Cisneros is about a girl whose birthday was spoiled all because she did not stand up for herself. The theme of this story is how it is important to be confident and stand up for who you are. In the beginning of the story Mrs.Price Rachel’s teacher‚ asked who’s sweater is this? Rachel the main character does not say anything or that it Isn’t hers. By not speaking up shows that she is afraid of speaking up in front of the class. If Rachel would have said something
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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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Have you ever been so scared or nervous that you just stop and cry? In the story ¨Eleven¨ by Sandra Cisneros a scared‚ shy 11 year old girl gets stood up by her mean old teacher in front of all of her classmates. Did I mention it was her birthday? Yes she got stood up by Mrs.Price on her birthday. But Rachel never seemed to want to put herself out in the open. She was always either too scared to talk or she got cut off but whatever the cause may be always be willing to put yourself out in the open
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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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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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