Darius And The Clouds By Cisneros Analysis

While Carmen helping poor people Esperanza confused because she didn’t think of poor can help each other. She was confused because the way she raised were different compared to other people. Finally, Esperanza realized that there are more profound aspects in life than being

Esperanza is dealing with many obstacles throughout her life but she keeps moving forward and getting past them. While at a carnival, Sally leaves Esperanza alone near some red clowns to leave with a boy. The clowns rape her and “He said I love you, Spanish girl, I love you, and pressed his sour mouth to mine” (Cisneros 100). Sally leaves her there without thinking she will be raped but she never comes back to get her. Esperanza doesn’t leave because she trusts that Sally will come back for her. Esperanza has to get past the incident and her way is by looking at the trees

In the novel,The House on Mango Street, Cisneros uses a powerful collection of imagery however, one of the strongest examples would be in the chapter My Name, which displays Esperanza’s insecurities in a land who struggles to accept her. “In English my name means hope. In Spanish it means too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting,” (Cisneros pg.10). Esperanza explains the meaning of hope for Hispanic people in a few simple words: sadness and waiting. For millions, it represents the wait of a new life, a better life for them. It’s sadness, knowing many reject them in a land they were promised opportunity. This motif of repudiation and racial discrimination appears frequently throughout the novel which greatly affects Esperanza’s life.

Throughout the book Cisneros employs idiomatic phrases that increases brevity of writing and express various meanings. For example the phrase, ¨But I know how those things go. [5]. Esperanza does not believe that her house on mango street will disappear from her life. Although her parents say it is only ¨ẗemporary¨, in her head she is articulating and considering if her parents really mean what they said. This may have occurred previously multiple times in her life where her parents say that their current house is temporary and a better house will come later. Yet they still have not achieved the house they desire. The author shows the readers that Esperanza is intellectual as she contains the ability to foreshadow future events based on

In conclusion, we know that Esperanza’s negativity of herself begins to slowly change as she slowly experience what accepting means and how she began to accept where she was from . Throughout this book, Cisnero showed us accepting is an important part of growing in life as well as determining the true you. In the beginning she hated her life always wanted to escape out of Mango Street versus the end she says she is going to come back. From the beginning to the end, Esperanza finally accepted where she was from and how Mango Street has developed who she became

I chose this quote because it hints at the stage where Esperanza changes from an adolescent to an adult. When Esperanza is assaulted by a group of boys, and this experience wasn’t how people describe it as. It shows how she is growing up and understanding the pain and anguish that several women in her community had to face. Here, Esperanza has to deal with the loss of innocence while being exposed to the harsh reality of to sexual

In the vignette “Beautiful and Cruel”, Cisneros uses syntax to help establish the insecurities and lack of self-confidence that Esperanza has about herself. The vignette is toward the end of the book, from this we know how much self-confidence Esperanza is lacking. Cisneros starts to Establish Esperanza’s character by how insecure she is by comparing her to her sister. This shows that Esperanza is a little jealous of her sister and is shown when she talks about how Nenny is the pretty one and can get away with allot of things. Nenny wants to pick her husband and she can say that because she looks the way she does. Esperanza has decided that she doesn’t want a husband because she thinks that because the way she thinks because of the way she

To begin, Cisneros uses metaphors of classism to express Espernaza’s views of classism and how it causes those of a lower class to be devalued. Throughout the novel, Esperanza dreams of moving into a new house, a house on the hill because “people who live on hills sleep so close to the stars that they forget about [those] who live on earth” (86). The house on the hill is a metaphor for those who are higher up in the social class. Those who live on the hills live their live their entire lives so easily and “[do not] look down at all except to be content to live on the hills” (86). Esperanza critiques that the higher class are happy with their own lives and ignorant to their privilege, therefore, they do not care about the less fortunate. This metaphor of

She also considers her differences as a source of isolation, as she floats in the sky for all to see. She longs to escape, much like a helium balloon. The anchor hinders her flight, similar to the confines that her granted by her society. Cisneros supplies Esperanza with a small voice, but also with a tone of wishful thinking, which gives her the ability to be powerful.

Esperanza is a shy but a very bright girl. She dreams of the perfect home now, with beautiful flowers in their luscious garden and a room for everyone to live in comfortably all because of the unsatisfied face the nun made that one afternoon--when she moves to the house of Mango Street. She thinks it’s going to be a “grand house on a hill that will have a bedroom for everyone and at least three washrooms so when they took a bath they would not have to tell everybody.” (Cinceros 4) Reality is so different for her when her dream is shot down in a heartbeat when she

Another example of optimism portrayed by Esperanza was that despite her horrible first experiences with the opposite sex, (as in chapter 21, The First Job and chapter 39, The Red Clowns) she still has dreams of sitting outside at night with her

Thoughts and feelings are human characteristics which distinct us from one another and cannot be duplicated or falsified. Cisneros bestows the feature of an internal view on Esperanza by having her speak of her thoughts and feelings in first person narrative throughout the novel. Cisneros starts acquainting this feature early in the story for such topics as laughter: “Nenny and I don’t look like sisters…not right away. Not the way you can tell with Rachel and Lucy who have the same fat popsicle lips like everybody else in their family. But me and Nenny, we are more alike than you would

The vignette “Beautiful and Cruel,” conveys the impact it has on Esperanza. In this vignette, Esperanza feels that she is “an ugly daughter” and “the one nobody cares about” (Cisneros 88). She does not need, or want, a man to lead her life, unlike the women she knows. She does not need, or want, a man to make decisions for her. Unfortunately, she still feels the pressure to look gorgeous and stunning: “Nenny has pretty eyes and it’s easier to talk that way

“I am an ugly daughter,” she says. “I am the one nobody comes for” (109). She feels she can relate to the four skinny trees outside her window. “Four skinny trees with skinny necks and pointy elbows like mine” (93). Just as the trees survive under a harsh environment, Esperanza finds difficulty in accepting the neighborhood in which she lives. She is very self-conscious about her name, whose mispronunciation by teachers and peers at school sounds ugly to her ears. She struggles with jealousy of her younger sister Nenny and cynically says that she “has pretty eyes and it’s easy to talk…if you are pretty” (109). Ashamed of most everything she identifies with, Esperanza is maturing with a very low perception of herself. She is not content with her home and surroundings, and cannot be until she is happy with her own character.

In the 472 BCE play, The Persians by Greek playwright Aeschylus, the story of a bloody battle is told through a messenger. The play opens and takes place in the city of Susa, one of the four centers of government in the Persian Empire, as the chorus of men from the King’s council enter the scene. The chorus is waiting for the return of King Xerxes, after bringing the Persian army to go fight the Greeks. The Persians is famous for being one of the first ancient Greek plays to tell a story of contemporary history rather than a play about the gods; in the play Aeschylus recounts the Battle of Salamis between the Persian army and the Greek army. Xerxes, King of the Persian Empire, goes to battle with the Greeks to avenge his loss in the battle at Marathon many years prior.