Sandra Cisneros' 'Salvador Late or Early': Response to Literature

Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario is a novel based on a true story about the courageous boy named Enrique. The story begins when his mother leaves him from his home country, Honduras, to seek work in the United States. The sorrow that follows her “disappearance” from his life causes a sporadic change, and his life changes for the worst, at first. Little does he know, Enrique has just stepped foot into a journey that takes him through experiences that will stick with him the rest of his life. The themes that the text brings through the pages are important, as they’ve shaped the story, and, in turn, led Enrique back to his mother.

Characterization is shown through indirect and direct stories. Indirect is when the author does not go straight out and tell the reader characteristics, but direct is a five letter acronym known as S.T.E.A.L. These individual letters stand for say, think, effect, actions, and look. Say stands for what the character says throughout the story, think is what the character imagines or says in his or her mind that only the reader and the narrator know, effect stands for what effect the characters' actions play with others within the story, actions stands for what the character physically does within the story, and look is what the characters physical features are and how they develop characterization. Sandra Cisneros develops great characterization throughout both

This story is about beginnings, passage points, and endings – the end of childhood and the innocence. It is tells about Connie, a young fifteen year old girl, who meet a stranger named Arnold Friend, who leads her

Cisneros’s style can be characterised and depends on word choices and sentence structure, the constant use of parallelism, rhythmic, and using monologue and deliberate repetition of emotions to for filled the story. In this story, the enormous conflict arises when the innocent girl’s dream has been crashed by poverty and

Salvador Late or Early, a short story by Sandra Cisneros, tells us about about a young boy named Salvador who lives an underprivileged life. He has no friends and not even his teachers know who he is. He lives in a run down home where he takes care of his brothers Cecilio and Arturio, "shakes the sleepy brothers awake, ties their shoes, combs their hair with water, feeds them milk and cornflakes from a tin cup in the dim dark of the morning. ”(Cisneros, 1) Salvador has the responsibility of doing the things his mother can’t because she is taking care of the baby. Cisneros writes that Salvador is not capable of being happy because he has no room in his life for it, “Inside that body too small to contain the hundred balloons of happiness, the

Children like Enrique dream of finding their mothers and living happily ever after. For weeks, perhaps months, these children and their mothers cling to romanticized notions of how they should feel toward each other. Then reality intrudes. The children show resentment because they were left behind. They remember broken promises to return and accuse their mothers of lying. They complain that their mothers work too hard to give them the attention they have been missing. In extreme cases, they find love and esteem elsewhere, by getting pregnant, marrying early or joining

Salvador Perez or Stephen Curry? Take your pick because they are both good athletes. However, they play different sports. The two athletes play in professional leagues. Salvador Perez plays baseball while Stephen Curry plays basketball.

This novel revolves around a love story between two Latino teenagers, Maribel Rivera and Mayor Toro. The Rivera’s, coming from Mexico, have come to America in search for a better life for their daughter, Maribel, who had previously fallen off a ladder at her father’s construction site back in Mexico causing her to be mentally slow. They wanted Maribel to receive the best special education possible. As time continues Maribel and her parents develop throughout the book. Their experiences impact their behavior and steer them throughout the book.

Tasked with writing an essay on poverty from the standing of an impoverished father with a family in Brazil, Parks instead decides to base his essay on Flavio da Silva- an underprivileged, sickly, twelve-year-old boy. After following Flavio home

In a story like “Salvador Late or Early,” by Sandra Cisneros, imagery plays a key role in helping the readers see the world through the eyes of Salvador. For instance, Cisneros illustrates Salvador’s eyes by saying, “Salvador with eyes the color of caterpillar.” By using phrases containing figurative language, Cisneros allows the reader to interpret the story in their own different ways. In this case, Salvador’s eyes are being compared to a caterpillar’s body. By using imagery, readers are able to turn the story into a mental movie.

In the short story, “Salvador, Late or Early,” although Salvador’s present situation at first makes him appear to be weighed down by responsibilities, author Sandra Cisneros uses similes and symbolism to illuminate his hopeful and joyous character. His eyes, which are “the color of caterpillar,” contrast the grey imagery of Salvador’s home. Since caterpillars metamorphose into butterflies, this simile recognizes the hidden potential in Salvador. Even though on the surface his surroundings suggest he is burdened by responsibility, in fact, his eyes disclose the buoyancy of his spirit. Along these same lines, when his brother spills a box of crayons on the asphalt, Salvador scrambles to pick up the “hundred little fingers of red, green, yellow,

Salvadoran Civil War and Children In the movie, “Voces Inocentes” Chava, an 11 year old boy from Cuscatancingo in El Salvador, lives with his mother and siblings in the middle of a war between the Salvadoran military and the El Salvador guerrillas. Chava’s father left to the United States when Chava was about 5 years old. Chava’s mother makes a living to provide for her family by sewing clothes, and Chava sells the clothes and also helps by announcing the bus stations to make money when he isn’t attending school. Since Chava is about to turn 12, he will soon be recruited by the Salvadoran military.

They don't know the sacrifices he has made and the struggle he goes through every morning. “Salvador with eyes the color of caterpillar, Salvador of the crooked hair and crooked teeth, Salvador whose name the teacher cannot remember, is a boy who is no one's friend, runs along somewhere in that vague direction where

Through Sandra Cisnero’s use of imagery and descriptive wording in “Salvador, Late or Early”, she creates a somber yet hopeful tone throughout the piece. First, the author describes Salvador: “Salvador whose name the teacher cannot remember”. The author states this, with the intention of the reader thinking that Salvador is almost invisible to those around him, supporting that part of the tone in this piece is somber. Later in the piece, the author uses wonderful description to show that Salvador has had a rough past and is struggling in life. The prose states “...geography of scars, its history of hurt…” in order to convey that Salvador’s life is not perfect and to show that part of the overall tone in this piece is somber.

Let's just say that today I'm going to be a child all day. Grown- up birthday celebrations are too boring, said Augustine as she then began to giggle, Earlene would giggle as well as she worked out the door, and into another room. As Augustine ate her breakfast, she thought closely about what Earlene had just told her, and as she thought about that, she began to look back at her search for love thus far. Augustine's quest for love had a lot of bad endings this one, in particular, she would never forget, and even possibly get over. It was about a couple of years ago when she had fallen for a boy, she had gone to school with. He was a white boy who had just not too long moved into the community. The boy's name was Lance, and he was everything Augustine had dreamed of. One day after school was over the boy would approach Augustine, um hello there, I noticed you in class, and thought that I would introduce myself, I'm Lance Nelson, said the boy smitten with Augustine's beauty. Well, Lance, my name is Augustine, and it is a pleasure to meet you, replied