Essays on Sandra Cisneros

Sandra Cisneros attempts to show the cultural torment that children have to undergo when two cultures clash and they have to adjust. "Mericans" by Sandra Cisneros is a short straightforward story which is easy to understand. In line with the themes mostly revisited by the renowned author, culture is kept at the core of this piece as various comparisons are put forward. The use of various styles such as irony and symbolism play a vital role in creating visual impressions that are bound to evoke the reader’s emotions. This paper attempts to show the author is directly touching ...

The paper’s focus will be on the book ‘The House on Mango Street’, particularly, the experiences of the Esperanza family. An investigation of the experiences of Esperanza and her family is critically presented. The way Esperanza and her family relate with her family, community and the existing tensions is also established. As a coming of age novel, Sandra Cisneros’s book is critically analyzed from the social angle. The life of Esperanza Codero illuminates the struggles and experiences of growing up in Chicago. As a young girl, she serves an ideal subject from where we can study the ...

Woman Hollering Creek is a short story written by Sandra Cisneros and it deals with domestic violence. The main character is Cleofilas, a Mexican woman, who marries Juan Pedro and goes to live in the U.S. She is not happy in this marriage although they have one child and another on the way, because Juan Pedro abuses her, physically and mentally. Women help one another out in this story because Cleofilas does not know how to get away until she meets Felice and Graciela. Even though Cleofilas thinks suffering for love is good, she is faced with the reality ...

Everyone knows that the art is very important in society. Fine art, prose and poetry, music and film improve our everyday life, make it brighter, brings joy and comfort. Yet sometimes there are people who do not agree with this statement. They argue that art is a waste of energy and resources, and areas such as science and industry are truly important since they produce items that necessary for the society. However, this opinion is incorrect, since art in general, and the people involved in it in particular, have a huge impact and significance in society. Our life would ...

In her writing, Sandra Cisneros (204) pays much attention to the issue of discrimination against women. In her article entitled ‘Only Daughter’, the author dwells heavily on the issue of women being seen as second class people after men, with even parents seeing the girl child not as valuable as the male child. To illustrate this, the author takes the reader back to her younger years where the reader learns that she was brought up in a family of a Mexican father and a Mexican-American mother. Discrimination was evident in that the girl could not play with her brothers since they ...

‘The House on Mango Street’ and ‘We the Animals’

The aim of this essay is to present you with the main differences and similarities which can be found between the novels ‘The House on Mango Street’ and ‘We the Animals’ and which are the theme of masculinity, the role of the mother, and the way the procedure of aging is perceived by each main leading person of each novel. Both the differences and similarities will be presented in terms of how some specific issues are treated by the writers of these novels and developed within the context of their books. The issues which will be presented comparatively are ...

“The White Man will never be alone” (Chief Seattle 120). Chief Seattle is correct when he says that the White man will never be alone because there will always be other cultures in America. Throughout the ages, America has gone through a lot as a country, events which have torn the nation apart, yet in its own way sown unity within our hearts. The struggles started even as early as the colonization of the Americas, and still continue until this day. Although, there are events in time which helped shaped our country and our people. Over the course of American history, ...

1. Thesis Statement: Sandra Cisneros and Maxine Hong Kingston explore immigrant dynamics and the right of women to possess their own bodies in their stories Woman Hollering Creek and The No Name Woman by using a story common to both cultures; the woman who drowns herself and her child then come back to drown others. This ending can serve as a warning not to get pulled under, but to keep struggling against adversity. 2. Argument: Her No Name Woman is her father’s sister who killed herself and her newborn baby while the family lived in China. Her ...

1. Introduction In Woman Hollering Creek Sandra Cisneros reveals how the immigrant women can help define themselves by looking at old mythic stories. 2. Thesis Statement:

Sandra Cisneros comments on immigrant dynamics in her short story Woman Hollering Creek.

3, Argument: Sandra Cisneros first published Woman Hollering Creek in her collection of short stories, Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories. In it, she takes a hard look at the American Southwestern immigrant culture, and how the societal pressures increase level upon level with the greatest weight burden upon the women and children. Cleofilas Enriqueta DeLeon Hernandez believes in the princess myth and longs "passion in its purest crystalline essence. The ...

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Achieving goals is and should be a constant part of life. Without goals, an individual would be rendered stagnant for as long as he decides not to create one. A goal is what makes a person’s life go forward. There are literally a lot of saying about goals but the saying about goals that struck me the most was the one that says “a man without goals is a man without dreams.” Ever since I heard this line, I have started to create goals for myself. One of the most common dilemmas of people, every one of which most likely have a goal in ...

Sandra Cisneros might be one of the most prolific and promising writers, especially in the twenty first century, but has gone through much more challenges to get to where she is right now, that her audience and readers actually know. Only daughter, which is one of her favorite literature, describes the challenges that she went through in order to become the prolific writer and author that she is today. Sandra Cisneros grew up in a family of nine, whereby she had six brothers and her parents. As a child, her society did not highly regard education among the girl child, ...

The aim of this paper is to compare and contrast two beautifully rendered pieces of literature; The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros and ‘And the earth did not devour him by Tomas Rivera. Both the novels will be discussed in juxtaposition to each other to aid the process of drawing out similarities and highlighting points of comparison. To commence, it must be noted that both the authors are chicane identity wise and hence much of their work is set in the same background. Both the authors are successful in launching their plots’ owing to their knowledge of ...

Introduction

The House on Mango Street is a novel written by a well renowned writer, Sandra Cisneros. The main character is a preadolescent girl called Esperanza Cordero. She is Latin and lives in a neighborhood full of Chicanos and Puerto Ricans with her being a Chicana. Her neighborhood is what is called Mango Street and it is somewhat of a ghetto. Every social evil-rape, child molestation, theft- is evidenced in this neighborhood. It is definitely not a safe place to live in but according to the high degree of poverty which is experienced by residents in that area, they have no other choice. Esperanza’s family constitutes ...