Sandra Cisneros

Have you ever been forced to move from one home to another? If you have, you know what it feels like to be uprooted away from everything you know and love, and move miles away to something completely new and unknown. Even if you cannot relate to experiencing something like this, try to imagine what…

In today’s world there are countless social problems. People are often treated as an inferior or as if they are less important for many different reasons. In The House on Mango Street, the author Sandra Cisneros addresses these problems. Throughout the story Cisneros does a thorough job explaining and showing how these issues affect the…

            People may perceive that a home and a house is the same, but by reading the novel deeply, readers would come to realize that the interpretation of a home in the novel is different from the interpretation of a house to Esperanza.             The protagonist name is Esperanza, she was young hen the novel…

The House on Mango Street is a piece written by Sandra Cisneros, an American of Mexican Heritage. It was published in 1984 and details a year in the life of a young girl, Esperanza Cordero, who moves to Mango Street, a Mexican enclave of Chicago, at the age of twelve. The story deals with relationships,…

“Woman Hollering Creek” Literary Analysis from Feminist Perspective The story “Woman Hollering Creek” is about a young Mexican woman Cleofilas who grew up in a small town in Mexico. Cleofilas was married at a young age to a man who she thought was the great love of her life and imagined they would have a…

Sandra Cisneros is an amazing writer. Growing up as a shy, introverted girl, no one would have ever thought she would eventually become a successful and very accomplished author, especially since she is a Mexican woman coming from a poor upbringing. In one of her works, “Straw into Gold: The Metamorphosis of the Everyday”, she…

“I’m eleven, ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two and one, but I wish I was one hundred and two. ” This quotation implies the character’s emotion towards her birthday and her reaction to it. Sometimes a writer’s words can provide a glimpse of the speaker’s or character’s personality. The writing that speaks…

In Eleven Eleven by Sandra Cisneros, uses many literary devices to characterize a complex eleven-year-old. Rachel, the ingenuous 1st person narrator, relates the details of her humiliating eleventh birthday. Although her diction reflects her age, Rachel conveys the difficulty of growing up with adult precision. She is embarrassed and feels helpless, but knows she will…

“Linoleum Roses” by Sandra Cisneros is a short story about a girl who runs off and gets married at a young age. Sally decides to get married before the eighth grade to escape life at home, but her “escape” is not any better than the life she was living before. Sometimes young people can be…