Sandra Cisneros Only Daughter

He would come home wasted after weeks of not being home; of me wondering where my father had been all those weeks. Staying up late on school nights just wishing for him to come home and tuck me in bed, to tell me he loved me, to ask me how my day was, or just tell me that he was there to stay. As a first grader it is hard to explain to your friends why they can not come to your house to play just knowing that if he is there that he will be drunk yelling at my mom for nothing. It got to the point to where he would come home after a few days and grab a suitcase and leave to go with his new girlfriend for a few days or even weeks. Right before he would leave I would always have hope that he would tell me where he was going or take me with him. I just wanted a father. My mother always told me that he would be back and to have hope; to always trust in her and that she would always be there for me. She was always my rock when I was younger. Until one day she finally told me what a monster the man I called my dad was. He was an abuser, physically and mentally. She told me the truth about the man that I wished was in my life for so long. He never wanted me. I was the youngest out

Sandra Cisneros, an author who is deeply inspired by her Mexican American heritage. This inspiration is clearly shown throughout every one of her writing pieces such as “Salvador Late or Early” and “Eleven”. Both short-stories focus on adolescents with a mature mindset and adult precision, and each story does a marvelous job portraying Cisneros constant writing style. “Salvador Late or Early” is focusing on a young boy, Salvador, with heavy burdens to carry on his shoulders, which is unfortunate because he is such a young boy with an old soul. The responsibilities he has are unimaginable due to the fact they don’t pertain to his age. The short-story “Eleven” is about an eleven-year-old girl named Rachel, a forthright character who explains

Sandra Cisneros father grew up with what he was taught about being successful. So the mind set between what he thought was right and wrong differed for his sons and daughter.He believed that since she was the only daughter should would lead to becomes one's wife who is financially stable.Meanwhile, he approved of his son graduating college using his head instead of his hands. I can agree to disagree instead of it being a financial gain, others may use it as personal success. Being prideful in what you love to do, while reaching the goals you’ve set for yourself making accomplishments. Differing the fact that their are many different concepts of what success might be taught to the human mind of many people. For me I consider my cousin Taurean

The role of strong female roles in literature is both frightening to some and enlightening to others. Although times have changed, Sandra Cisneros’ stories about Mexican-American women provide a cultural division within itself that reflects in a recent time. The cultural themes in Cisneros’s stories highlight the struggle of women who identify with Mexican-American heritage and the struggle in terms of living up to Mexican culture – as a separate ethnic body. The women in Sandra Cisneros’ stories are struggling with living up to identities assigned to them, while trying to create their own as women without an ethnic landscape. In Sandra Cisneros’ stories “Woman Hollering Creek: and “Never Marry a Mexican” the role of female identities that

“After the shopping trip fiasco, my mom decided she wanted to learn to paint and ended up trying to purchase an entire art supply store over the phone. When my dad forced her to hang up, she went into a rage so fierce she pulled a knife on him. She kicked and screamed and yelled at him, called him the worst names I had ever heard, until she was crying on the floor again. Dad put her into the hospital after that.”

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

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

Reading and comparing two essays, “Dear Sugar” and “Only Daughter”, they both are about women’s life, but there are so many differences between two. Sandra Cisnero’s novella, “Only Daughter”, indicates a more effective discrimination of older women’s power in their life than Sugar’s essay “Dear Sugar” through family relationship, symbolism, and conflict with others.

in with her father, she begins to slowly become more comfortable around him than she was before.

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.

“Being only a daughter for my father meant my destiny would lead me to become someone’s wife”, like Sandra Cisneros illustrates in her essay “Only Daughter”, many women in the Mexican-American culture used to not have other choice in life, but to eventually become someone’s wife. Cisneros focuses on the lives of first and second generation Mexican American females. In her essay, she brings the reader her own life story to support the struggle that many Mexican-American women had to experience at the time the essay was written, and that can still be seen in modern society. In her essay, Cisneros effectively convinces her reader of the difficulties of growing as a female, more specifically, as an only daughter in a Mexican-American family of nine.

I have come from a well-meaning but very scarring, ambivalent and dysfunctional family. My father was a sometimes physically, but often times very emotionally abusive person. Using a large amount of fear and intimidation of him to control our family and home. My mother regularly took out her anger and frustration towards my father on me since my parent’s first major separation when I was seven years old which in conjunction with the negative impact of my parents’ off and on separations leading up to their eventual divorce I developed depression, anger and other behavioral problems as well. I suffered many years of abuse from my mother as a result of these things. I understood both my parents cared for me, even though their actions often time both demonstrated it and contradicted it which lead to much confusion in relationships and friendships outside of my family. One of if not the most scarring experiences were of my mother and the adults she surrounded herself with sympathizing her abuse towards me because of the abuse she endured by my father and

The article “Only Daughter,” by Sandra Cisneros from Glamour magazine was published in 1990. It talks about how Cisneros felt overlooked, lonely, and unacknowledged in her Mexican- American family, with her being the only daughter with six brothers. Her father and her brothers belittled her only because she was a female. When she told them she wanted to go to college they found it useless other than trying to find a husband there. After going there and being a hardworker it all paid off. She showed her father a copy of one of her stories and he loved it. Cisneros father wanted to show all her relatives her work. Cisneros says, “Of all wonderful things that happened to me last year, that was the most wonderful,” This created a bond they never had, that she always wanted.

Growing up in a home with both my parents, I was fortunate to be able to spend a lot of quality time with my father. We used to go out together and play soccer, baseball, and ride bikes. I remember we used to play a lot of old school video games and my mother would get pretty upset at the hours we spent playing and not doing anything productive. In my point of view, our relationship was perfect; our bond was strong like any father and son. I was only four years old when my world was turned upside down. My life changed the day that my mom and my dad separated, I felt alone. The process of a divorce was too much for a child that age to handle; it was a hard time for me. Although I had no father figure for about 12 years because my dad moved

As a young woman, have you ever felt lonely or overlooked? Author Sandra Cisneros gives us a look at her childhood and cultural background. Throughout this article the lonely bookish child is longing for her father’s attention and praise. Sandra Cisneros persuades us that she grew up in a cultural strict Mexican American family where she breaks through this cultural barrier with her father.