Karely Espinoza Précis Ap English April 30‚ 2013 Narrative- “Only Daughter” by Sandra Cisneros In “Only Daughter‚” Sandra describes her struggled life of being an only daughter of a Mexican-American family with six sons. She uses Spanish words to explain her family’s background and tradition. She explains how she accomplished her goal because of father wanting her to get married. She explains her life with past and recent events. Description- “Words left Unspoken” by Leah Hager Cohen
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important like her brothers‚ she feels left alone and not important. The dramatic scenario was the daughter’s relationship with her dad. She didn’t feel like her brothers‚ loved like their brother and she doesn’t get the same treatment as them. Sandra Cisneros is a very successful author‚ earned many medals. The main reason is the gender discrimination‚ the daughter is facing sexism. Men are more favored than women to this day‚ men are believed to hold more power. The Great Depression was a horrible
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Everyone wants to be inimitable‚ incomparable. The story “Rice Sandwich” by Sandra Cisneros is all about that‚ fitting in. About a young girl wants to be with the “cool kids‚” who hung out in the canteen. About a young girl who was chasing the wrong thing. Don’t be special‚ because it will cause a lot false uniqueness and a lot of misery. Do not try changing to a different person‚ because it’s a lie. For example‚ Esperanza wants to be special‚ and wants to be with “The special kids… get to eat in
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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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Creative Writing Process Piece Reflectio The piece that I choose to display the creative writing process was my Eleven remodel called‚ Eighteen going on Four.This was a remodel from Sandra Cisneros’s piece Eleven. She displayed such an abundant amount of emotions in her piece which is something that I aspired in my own piece.At first I was very hesitant about using another writer’s piece of model after my own‚ it almost felt like cheating. Of course I love to use other’s writing to inspire me but
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by themselves‚ but by their family member’s. That is the first gift the baby owns and of course‚ it is free‚ but not everybody takes the free gift if they don’t like it. Just like me and the girl I had read about in the article‚ “My Name‚" by Sandra Cisneros. We both don’t like our names because our names are not English names; indeed‚ it’s the different culture name. In “My Name‚” Esperanza is the girl‚ who has a meaningful name in English but still‚ she doesn’t like it. Esperanza hates her name
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blessing or a curse. Throughout history many have learned have learned to read and write ending up with different perspectives 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
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Mr. Gonzales‚ my trendy teacher decided to assign The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. I dismissed the book as another tale of a white dude learning about his “tragic life” but soon I discovered that this was not the case. Those following days‚ I sat by the window and found a deeper meaning in this book‚ which embodied my culture in the realistic light along with a reassurance of my identity. Sandra Cisneros‚ the writer who awakened my rehabilitation from a harsh identity crisis and lack
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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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“Only Daughter‚” written by Sandra Cisneros. Both female Hispanic authors talk about how they divided their childhood between two countries and the meaning of being a woman in their cultures. They also describe family structures and relationships between parents and children in an immigrant family. Judith Ortiz Cofer was born in the small town of Hormigueros‚ Puerto Rico. She came to the U.S with her parents and they settled in Paterson‚ New Jersey. Similar to Cisneros‚ she had a divided childhood
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