Only Daughter Sandra Cisneros Analysis

Josie Mendez-Negrete’s novel, Las Hijas de Juan: Daughters Betrayed, is a very disturbing tale about brutal domestic abuse and incest.  Negrete’s novel is an autobiography regarding experiences of incest in a working-class Mexican American family.  It is Josie Mendez-Negrete’s story of how she, her siblings, and her mother survived years of violence and sexual abuse at the hands of her father.  “Las Hijas de Juan" is told chronologically, from the time Mendez-Negrete was a child until she was a young adult trying, along with the rest of her family, to come to terms with her father 's brutal legacy. It is a upsetting story of abuse and shame compounded by cultural and linguistic isolation and a system of patriarchy that devalues the

Another important issue that Cisneros addresses in her story is gender roles in the Latino community. In Mexico, being born a male is of higher prestige and value

In the story "Woman Hollering Creek" Sandra Cisneros discusses the issues of living life as a married woman through a character named Cleofilas; a character who is married to a man who abuses her physically and mentally .Cisneros reveals the way the culture puts a difference between a male and a female, men above women. Cisneros has been famous about writing stories about the latino culture and how women are treated; she explain what they go through as a child, teen and when they are married; always dominated by men because of how the culture has been adapted. "Woman Hollering Creek" is one of the best examples. A character who grows up without a mother and who has no one to guid and give her advise about life.

In “Only Daughter,” published in Glamour magazine in 1990, Sandra Cisneros talks about how it’s like for her to be the only daughter in a Mexican-American family of six sons. She talks about some of the struggles she faces. Sandra is a writer. A writer who wants her dad to be curious about her writing. He never bothers to ask what she’s writing. When they’d ask her father how many children's he has, he’d respond with “I have seven sons.” The mention of only sons, not a daugher. This proved to her he was only proud of his sons but not her. According to him she’d also have to go to college but only to find a husband. A man who will take her out of poorness. Since, according to Sandra that's why her dad thought college was important for her. He didn't care about her major. Sandra Cisneros is a writer who didn’t have the attention she was meant to receive. Towards the end she finally gets the attention she desired. She translated one of her pieces into Spanish, the only language her dad could read. That's how it gained the attention of her father. When her dad finally reads her story, it fills her with joy. At first she didn't get any attention from her dad at all, because she’s a girl. Sandra Cisneros makes a great argument on her life being full of loneliness. Although, she only talks about her perspective on things. In this article she only talks about her side of the story, and her side only. Sandra talks about how her life was as being the only girl out of seven children.

Sandra Cisneros has been criticized by many for her depiction of Mexican Americans in her novel The House on Mango Street. Critics claim that Cisneros portrayal of Mexican Americans sustains an image of negative stereotypes. Those negative stereotypes being men who are dominating over women and women who are submissive. Throughout Cisneros’ story we meet many characters who are portrayed as the critics claim – in a way that suggests the dominance men have over the home and the family. Despite this, I believe this representation is not ment to enhance those negative stereotypes, but to better heighten the feelings of oppression, otherness, and helplessness Esperanza has. One of the most prominent examples of the negative stereotypes being displayed

Sandra Cisneros’ use of literary elements, such as voice, repetition, and figurative language, causes the reader to that it takes a long time to grow up.

     In "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall," Katherine Anne Porter gives readers a glimpse of the thoughts of a woman about to die.  Lying in her bed in her daughter Cornelia's house, eighty-year-old Granny Weatherall drifts in and out of consciousness.  Through her thoughts of events both current and bygone, it is learned that Granny has worked hard all her life, and frequently tells herself that she did a good job.  She thinks of events that made her stronger: digging holes for fence posts, "riding country roads in the winter when women had their babies" (311), taking care of sick animals and sick children.  Though Granny Weatherall tries to assure herself that her life has been

Over the years Gansberg’s article brought about debunkers that claimed fewer than thirty-eight people actually saw what happened to Kitty. Pelonero researched for herself through police reports, trail transcripts and reading through statements made by witnesses. In doing so Pelonero found that instead of bringing a new light on the case it their statements produced a watered-down version of the murder. Pelonero’s article does a good job stiffing through Gansberg article presenting the errors within his article like the fact that he stated there were three attacks, but Winston Moseley confessed in court that he attacked her twice. Pelonero speaks about the origin of the number thirty-eight which is a big point used by people who believe Gansberg article to be stuff of myth which seemed to fall in a gray area. A.M. Rosenthal claimed in his book, “Thirty-Eight Witnesses,” that the police commissioner Michael Murphy was the first to mention the number. People close to Gansberg who has passed away say that Gansberg counted the witnesses himself. Looking through police reports Pelonero found that thirty-night was a understatement because sixty-nine people admitted hearing screams. Many of them did not see anything but about thirty did admit to seeing Kitty’s attack. A closer look at the police log Pelonero found the claims that anyone called the police

In the articles written by Hogan and Shteyngart, we learn of two families with different origins, displaying similar hardships and adversities. In Hogan’s article, she poetically refers to her father’s eyes observing the hardship of life and her mother’s pain carrying the burdens of the family. Her father shares his views as he observes “the plague of locusts that leveled our crops, they flew in formation like buzzards” these words easily depict the hardship of farming and all the side effects that prompted difficulty providing crops for the family. Her mother shares the pain of her burden as she states” She left the large white breasts that weigh down my body.” Both Hogan’s mother and father reveal not only their role in the family but the difficulty in

Many young second generation daughters of Mexican heritage has grown up with a distinctive gender norm. In the midst of the second world war, the expression of freedom and equality spread throughout the country. This initiates for women to become more tuned to the social affairs the men had left behind. Thus, immigration brought a lot of Mexican families into Los Angeles. Double exposure to familial expectations and the American way of life brought in a sense of desperation of trying to balance both. The second generation daughters who have been exposed to the loudly spoken

Currently Sandra Cisneros resides in San Antonio in a purple house and she describes herself as “nobody’s mother” and “nobody’s wife.” Both Frida Kahlo’s and Cynthia Y. Hernandez’s works convey the idea of having one’s culture limit one’s freedom and individuality. Cisneros and Esperanza are both victims of this idea and realize that the only way to live one’s life freely is to defy the roles and limitations created by one’s culture.

In the story I think the author Gansberg did a good job by explaining the crime scene in full detail. This allowed him the show he true emotions of the situation. I believe Gansberg was truly angry the most when he said, “…the people came out.” He was most angry in this situation because all of the nearby civilians by Miss Genovese came outside when it was too late to help her. The civilians should have came out when the stabbing was taking place I feel as if the cops were mostly confused on why someone didn’t call the police. As when police asked a women why she didn’t call the police she said I don’t know I feel like this was when the police were most disappointed in the fact that the civilians had a chance to save Miss Genovese life by

Sandra Cisneros’ short story, “Never Marry a Mexican”, indirectly underlines her perspective, her interpretation, judgement, and critical evaluation of her subject, the work and its title. This perspective is evident in her use of literary devices, diction, and language structure in her narrative. The purpose of the use of these elements in the way that she does is ultimately linked to understanding her viewpoint on the subject. The author’s perspective is embedded in the meaning of the story and its theme. Her interpretations are valid, and justified in detail throughout the story to add color and vibrancy to her characters. Her judgment is lightly touched upon but only clearly and directly given at the end of the story, to allow the

Sandra Cisnero is a well-known novelist within the Latino community, most famously for her best-selling novel titled the House On Mango Street. The House On Mango Street is based on a coming of age story, where the main character struggles to discover her own identity due to her culture's emphasis on male dominance. Misogyny has been part of Latin tradition for the past years, but life in modern society doesn’t mean that it has completely disappeared. Cisnero intention is to spread awareness by displaying the gender roles her culture tolerates for females.

Have you ever looked back on something you did as a kid, or the past in general and regretted something you did or should have done but didn’t do it? Well The author Sandra Cisneros captures that feeling well in eleven by using stylistic techniques such as characterization, personification, and imagery to sound like a young child. The character Rachel is a personified avatar of Sandra's emotions.