Sandra Cisneros A famous Latino Writer that overcame many obstacles throughout her whole life, In one of the roughest time periods was Sandra Cisneros. ... Sandra Cisneros was born on December 20, 1954 in Chicago Illinois. ... To critics Sandra Cisneros has a style of writing that is hard to pick-up. ... Where she writes about her house that she lived in when she was a child. ... At this time American authors were writing about their own time period and history. ...

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Sandra Cisneros is the only daughter among seven children in her family. ... Sandra Cisneros was born on December 20, 1954 in the windy city of Chicago. ... Sandra Cisneros has had many achievements in her life as a Latina writer. ... Sandra Cisneros is not just a great writer but also a very bright woman, a scholar. ... " ( The House on Mango Street/ Sandra Cisneros) ...

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One of America's widely appreciated writers is the joyful, Mexican­-American Sandra Cisneros. ... On December 20th, 1954 in Chicago, Illinois, Elvira Cordero Anguiano and Alfredo Cisneros had given birth to the new member of their family, Sandra Cisneros. ... Sandra Cisneros is a woman who has given so much back to her readers, and of course has received a lot from them in thanks. ... Sandra Cisneros has accomplished so much. ... It was about what she had wanted to write about, not what she thought everyone else had wanted to read. ...

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Sandra Cisneros grew up as one of the seven children in an traditional Mexican family. ... Throughout the story Cisneros speaks about how isolated her family made her feel. ... Cisneros also talks about her Mexican culture and the impact it had on her. ... In Cisneros's culture, a woman's place was in the home. ... When I read this I felt sorry for Cisneros. ...

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Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street follows the story of a young girl named Esperanza and her life experiences growing up on Mango Street, the all-Hispanic community at which people of opulence look down upon and grimace. ... " (Cisneros 41), one calls out. Still innocent and not knowing what or who he was talking about, Esperanza looks around and notices, "there is nobody around but us" (Cisneros 41). ... Benny warns them about the shoes, calling them "dangerous", but they ignore him and strut on. ... " (Cisneros 73). ...

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In Beyond the Pale by Sandra Cisneros. ... In Beyond the Pale by Sandra Cisneros. ... Colors also can be helpful for learning about someone. ... In Beyond the Pale by Sandra Cisneros. ... It's also a way to fell better about themselves and their homes. ...

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Sandra Cisneros is a very successful Latina author in today's literary world. ... Cisneros" writing is influenced heavily by her upbringing and so she often writes about being considered an outsider and a minority in America. ... Their upbringings created totally different writing styles and inspired Cisneros to write about her real- life experiences with adversity and poverty. This goal of writing strong, inspiring, and realistic stories has earned Sandra Cisneros respect and admiration from readers and critics alike. ... Each of Sandra Cisneros" works has a strong connection to her ...

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In "The House on Mango Street," Sandra Cisneros creates a believable scene using different elements of creative writing. ... She allows the reader to understand the characters without saying too much about any of them. ... There is no front yard, only four little elms the city planted by the curb . . . and the house only has one washroom" (291). the narrator is unhappy about where she lives saying. ... Cisneros uses the point of view to reach out to our sense of humanity. ... Sandra Cisneros" use of setting, theme, and point of view in the short story "The House on Mango Street" e...

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In the novel, The House on Mango Street, written by Sandra Cisneros, clearly shows the strict and limited lives of Mexican women. In the vignette, "Boys and Girls," Cisneros strongly states, "the boys and the girls live in separate worlds" (Cisneros 8). ... "She looked out the window her whole life, the way so many women sit their sadness on an elbow" (Cisneros 11). ... Although it may seem that women in America don't have to worry about being treated as an equal, there are still some sexist issues that American women encounter. ... Work Cited Cisneros, Sandra. ...

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ESSAY "Only Daughter" by Claudia Cisneros and "Beauty" by Alice Walker are two very similar stories. Both of them are about accomplishments of women in times where women were less than men and only good to become a housewife. ... Sandra Cisneros was the only daughter of 7 kids. ... Sandra grew up and became a teacher but that didn't satisfy her father either. ... Both Sandra and Alice overcame their problems. ...

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Sandra Cisneros is the only daughter among seven children in her family. ... Sandra Cisneros was born on December 20, 1954 in the windy city of Chicago. ... Sandra Cisneros has had many achievements in her life as a Latina writer. ... Sandra Cisneros is not just a great writer but also a very bright woman, a scholar. ... " ( The House on Mango Street/ Sandra Cisneros) ...

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In 1984, Sandra Cisneros published a collection of forty four vignettes titled The House on Mango Street. ... Sandra Cisneros is described as an "adolescent playing at being an adult" because as a creative writer her mentality is similar to that of a child (McCay 1). ... She wanted to write about something she knew that no one else could write about. Hence, in an interview with Martha Satz, Cisneros admits "I was going through some traumatic experiences at the time, I chose to write about my past-my childhood experiences, my mother, and especially the women in the community"...

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In the short story, "Eleven"," by Sandra Cisneros, the word of protagonist, Rachel, strengthen the persuasive aspect of the passage more than that of her actions; this is because of the ability of words to elicit sympathy from the readers. ... Secondly, Rachel's words are more effective in eliciting sympathy from readers more than her actions because she uses figurative language to describe in detail her feelings about being eleven. ... I would've known how to tell her it wasn't mine instead of sitting there with that look on my face and nothing coming out of my mouth"" (Cisnero...

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"Barbie-Q- The Theme of this short story written by Sandra Cisneros is poverty. ... Cisneros shows symbolism considerably here when she describes what the "flea market- contained. ... I think her intention here was to supply the reader with information about what kind of place this was. ... Cisneros begins the rising action of the plot when the characters find the dolls. ... Cisneros was also comparing the smell of smoke that couldn't be washed off with poverty. ...

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"Barbie-Q- The Theme of this short story written by Sandra Cisneros is poverty. ... Cisneros shows symbolism considerably here when she describes what the "flea market- contained. ... I think her intention here was to supply the reader with information about what kind of place this was. ... Cisneros begins the rising action of the plot when the characters find the dolls. ... Cisneros was also comparing the smell of smoke that couldn't be washed off with poverty. ...

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I can relate to Sandra Cisneros in her essay "Only Daughter.... In her essay, Sandra wrote about how her father had wanted her to find a great husband and have children. ... And just like Sandra did, I too decided to follow my own identity and not the standards of my culture or the ones that society has set in place. ...

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Sandra Cisneros is the only girl in her family; she only has brothers. ... "Woman Hollering Creek- by Sandra Cisneros deals with a different character. ... Mallard is married, but does not know a lot of information about her marriage or about her. ... -(Cisneros 7). ... Sandra Cisneros was the only girl in her family and, in her story; "Woman Hollering Creek- Cleofilas was also raised with only brothers. ...

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In The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, Esperanza is an extremely tragic character. ... Specifically, in the opening statement, Cisneros addressed the issue directly. ... So, obviously, Cisneros means to drill the idea about beauty into our heads. ... This was an interesting technique that Cisneros utilized. ... Sandra Cisneros obviously spent much time showing readers what to do and what not to do. ...

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Sandra Cisneros" short story "There Was a Man, There Was a Woman" has an overriding theme of loneliness, and incorporates a great deal of irony, symbolism, and repetitious language. ... As Cisneros reminisces in On Writing she says "Some of the stories he has told about his first months in the United States with little or no English surface in my stories... The theme could also come from the many times Cisneros herself has felt alone in past experiences, such at the Iowa Writers Workshop about which she says "I felt foreign and out of place" (247). ... Along with irony and symbolism, Cisner...

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In Barbie-Q by Sandra Cisneros, Barbie symbolizes the cultural norm for the "perfect women" that even the narrator wants to be like, however the damaged Barbie she finds represents that she cannot be the perfect women because she is from intercity Chicago, she shops at a flea market, she is very poor, and she is Latina. ... The narrator speaks about how she is from intercity Chicago. ... By the way she talks about Chicago you can tell she lives there and is familiar with downtown living. ... It is stated in many different contexts about how she cannot afford more Barbie dolls, or any more...

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That is clearly shown in the protagonist in Sandra Cisneros's "Woman Hollering Creek." ... Her expectations were too high, but when she saw they were not met, she didn't seem too upset about it. ...

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" Similarly, an American writer Sandra Cisneros in her story "Eleven" shows the enigmatic journey of growing up through the eyes of an eleven year old child. ... The story opens with Rachel's reflection on the nature of time as she thinks about her own birthday. ... Rachel wanted to cry, but tried to think about a birthday cake for her that evening to celebrate her eleventh birthday. ... It seems clear that Rachel is a very reflective child who thinks deeply about abstract matters such as the passage of time and the meaning of age. ... " The use of these terms shows t...

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Although the short stories, Never Marry a Mexican, Woman Hollering Creek, and La Fabulosa: A Texas Operetta by Sandra Cisneros portray stories of "male superiority," if one were to search deeper, traces of womanly power can certainly be discovered. ... Through these three stories, Cisneros illustrates power as: learning and developing it; having confidence and demonstrating it; and simply possessing it as sheer authority and control. ... The last variation of power to be exemplified by Cisneros is located in her story, La Fabulosa: A Texas Operetta. ... She was never serious about this corpo...

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The book I read was The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. The House on Mango Street is a book about culture of Chicanos, also known as Mexican Americans. It is about a girl named Esperanza who moves into a new house on Mango Street. ... She is embarrassed about the house she lives in, the family always had to share rooms. ... The book is mainly about a poor family trying to live in a nice house, but they can't because they don't have the money....

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Mericans by Sandra Cisneros A first look at the title of the story, Mericans, inspires our thinking. ... However, after reading the story, we realize Sandra's subtle-ness of titling the story. Not until the end of the story do we have an idea about the narrator, Michele. The story is about her memory of a day when she and her brothers followed their "awful grandmother" to a church service. ... Toward the end of the story we have some idea about Mexican culture. ...

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