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    Short-Short Story The short-short story “Mericans” by Sandra Cisneros is the best one amongst all the stories. “Mericans” is not as long as the other stories; moreover‚ the way this story is told makes it easy and enjoyable to read. Everyone pays more attention when a child speaks even if they are ranting about something not so important. The tone in which “Mericans” is narrated‚ the style Sandra uses‚ the point of view the reader is given‚ and the theme of the story makes “Mericans” the best short-short

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    You live in a Latino section of Chicago‚ and you want to leave but you’re stuck. This is how Esperanza Cordero feels‚ “A red balloon tied to an anchor.”The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros are stories of her young life told in a series of vignettes. Esperanza is independent and wants to defy the social norms and expectations. Esperanza is trying to escape being married off‚ social order‚ and her sexuality. Many of Esperanza’s friends have been married off by their parents‚ or they got married

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    House on Mango Street response After finishing House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros which is a “coming of age story” genre. Point of the author was to express everyone’s hopes and dreams. In the reading Esperanza shares her stories throughout the vignettes‚ she expresses her opinion toward a certain topic and also talks about stories of the people she meets in the neighborhood‚ furthermore talks about her dream house that she wants to have in the future The vignettes included mostly opinions

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    My book is called “The House on Mango Street” by Sandra Cisneros. The setting is in Chicago the narrator of the book is named Esperanza Cordero‚ she has five other family members. Her mother‚ her father‚ Carlos‚ Kiki‚ and Nenny. This book is Esperanza‚ a girl who lives in a family that is fairly poor. Her family moves around a lot‚ to the point where she remember all the places she has ever lived. She recently moved into a house on Mango Street. Her parents bought the house‚ but Esperanza believed

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    that makes me think of the day of the dead‚ and the sky filled with clouds in one is the sun and another is the crescent moon. Frida seems like she’s stuck between two totally different cultures. In the book “The House On Mango Street” by Sandra Cisneros is a coming to age novel. It tells a story about Esperanza a latina girl growing up in the wonderful world of Chicago with her friends and family. Esperanza and her family recently have moved to mango street. They have moved around a lot in her

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    “The House on Mango Street isn’t it. For the time being‚ mama says. Temporary‚ says papa. But I know how things go”(5-6). In The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros‚ Esperanza is the main character who is a young girl who is naive and has different ways of seeing life. By the end of the novella she has matured and understands more about life because of experiences that both forced and motivated her to change. Esperanza had thought that boys and girls were nothing alike. She had thought that

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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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    English 101 Sandra CisnerosEleven” Millie Smitter Have you ever heard the expression "too young to be old" or "too old to be young?" “Eleven "‚ a story written by Sandra Cisneros‚ allows us to live the different emotions of Rachael‚ an ingenious first person narrator‚ describes the details of her humiliating eleventh birthday on a regular school day. Growing up can be‚ in most cases‚ a dramatic and difficult process‚ especially for kids. An eleven-year-old can feel helpless and vulnerable

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    Shame in Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street In Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street‚ Esperanza’s main goal is to one day have a house of her own that she can be proud of. Of course this is many people’s dream‚ but for Esperanza it means everything. It’s such a big deal to her because she’s ashamed of where she lives now‚ so she wants something better for herself in the future. While shame plays such a major role in the novel‚ this theme has received little attention from critics. Many critics

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    be strong. It is also difficult to abandon the encultured ways that a woman has lived her entire life. But the feeling of truly being her fullest self is reward enough to do so. It is empowering. In the book The House on Mango Street‚ Writer Sandra Cisneros demonstrates the power she wishes to have (and does have‚ after accepting her ‘masculine’ desires) and her realization that she did not want to allow her soul to be chained anymore; that she did not want to be a square peg in a circular

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