Sandra Cisneros Only Daughter

him to allow her and other women to attend law school. He agrees after she beats him while

Sandra Cisneros explores gender preference within her Mexican-American heritage with strong usage of imagery and the variation of her tone. First, the imagery found in “Only Daughter” helps portray the sacrifices Cisneros father made for his children. For instance, Cisneros writes how ecstatic their father was that his children would use their smarts instead of their hands like he once had to. Cisneros describes her father's hands saying, “Even now my father's hands are thick and yellow, stubbed by a history of hammer and nails and twine and coils and springs” (Cisneros 99). Cisneros use of imagery creates a vivid picture of how her father has worked extensively to make sure his seven children do not have to work as hard as he did to live in

Knowing this, she takes her experience and uses it to write this piece and uses it to spread her message and her feelings toward the topic.

“My Name” by Sandra Cisneros is a short excerpt from her book The House on Mango Street (1984). In this excerpt, Cisneros narrator is a girl named Esperanza, who is telling us that her name reminds her of a lot of negatives things, including who she inherited it from. Esperanza is trying to convince us that her name is a terrible name, which is built up of negativity and bad history. She state that she was named after her great-grandmother, who was born in the Chinese year of the horse, which they have in common, and is well known for her wild customs which lead to her feeling sad and lonely all her life. Esperanza specifies that her name sound beautiful among Spanish speakers, but to non-Spanish speakers her name is pronoun funny “as if the syllables were made out of tin and hurt the roof of your mouth” she says. She indicated that she would like to baptize herself under a new

Sandra Cisneros faced many struggles with being the only daughter. She talks a lot about her dad not being interested in her. Never even bothering to mention having a daughter, only him having seven sons. When she would start writing, her dad wouldn’t waste a breath on asking her what she was writing about. Although, she was not too persuasive in her article. She did mention the struggles of being an only daughter, but only her own. She makes her father look like such a horrible, ignorant man. Only talking negatively about him, not sharing a single positive thing about him. A man who has never in his life done anything good for her. This is how she tries to get her point across. She tries to convince us her dad really doesn’t pay

The story “Only Daughter” was published in a Glamour magazine in 1990. It was written by Sandra Cisneros. She comes from a Mexican-American family who follow the tradition where men are considered more important than women. She describes the cultural strictness that she faces due to the fact that she is the only female of the family; she has six brothers. Cisneros does her best to get her father to recognize her importance, however she is always unacknowledged and overlooked not only by her father, but her brothers as well. Sandra specifies the difficulties she experiences while she is the only girl; she is considered different. Her purpose is to illustrate the reality of living in a hispanic family. For example she mentions that the hispanic culture sees women are only meant to find a husband and get married.

Nanny had high hopes that Janie would marry and be a legitimate wife. This goal seems to be the

Mrs. Garcia is a middle age Mexican American woman, first generation acculturation into the societal beliefs

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hurting her son and wished he had died in infancy. She felt this because he had

not. Female authors at the time were looked down on, so in theory she had to pretend ignorance

It is very common for parents, even after their children have started their own lives, to try and continue to tell their children how to live their lives. They may always tell their children “you need to learn from your own mistakes”, but when it comes down to it, they want to keep their children from possibly making the same mistakes they did. In the short story, “ Aren’t you Happy for Me?” by Richard Bausch, Melanie’s father, Jack, is not too thrilled about the idea of his young daughter marrying a much, much older man. Later in the story, we learn that Jack is divorcing Melanie’s mother. Jack overacts about his daughter news of being pregnant and marrying an older man to avoid discussing his own divorce and because he is afraid

She explained to her, “This sister of yours was never like you, Nadine. She never was as noble as you are, nor will she ever emulate your nobility. As for her son, who also happens to be your nephew…I guess it

reluctance to admit her father’s death. When he dies, she refuses to let anyone remove his body from their house. It’s as if she feels she needs his comforting and protection.

Her mother was the love of her life, and now was gone forever. Was she going to have to live with a man she barely knew, or was there an alternative?