The Storyteller By Sandra Cisneros Essay

In the poem, “The Writer” by Richard Wilbur, the speaker is a father that is a writer. Throughout the poem, the father is watching his daughter grow up. The daughter in this poem also wants to be a writer when she gets older. She and her father have gone through many rough times throughout their lives together. Richard Wilbur expresses the theme of his poem by using figurative language and poetic devices in his poem.

The narrative written by Judith Ortiz Cofer discusses some of the many experiences she has encountered throughout her life dealing with stereotypes and common misconceptions of Latin American women. To further engage her audience in the story, she provides detailed past experiences that have stood out to her the most. In order for the readers to fully understand those past encounters, some of which are cultural and common among Latinos, Cofer explains them in careful detail. For example, Cofer explains the concept of piropos which are poems composed on the spot by men to women as a form of admiration. This helps her introduce the audience to her own experiences with piropos and how she has dealt with them throughout her life. One of the

A good novel entertains the reader. An excellent novel entertains and enlightens the reader. Set in a Cajun community in the late 1940’s, A Lesson Before Dying is a heart-warming tale of injustice, acceptance and redemption. A Lesson Before Dying by Earnest J. Gaines is an excellent novel. Not only does Gaines inform the reader, he entertains will his effective storytelling. His use of symbolism, voice and stylistic devices keeps the reader enticed to the very last page.

Despite being shown any attention for her writing, Cineros shows a great deal of determination without encouragement from her father. She tells us that we may not receive support from those that we care about, yet we can still reach our goal. She reaches out to those who have been or feel neglected by society. Or

The ending of The Storyteller is contrasts the rest of the story in quite a few ways. It has quite a deflated tone as it ends with tension between the aunt and the bachelor. The bachelor makes a prideful comment on his ability to entertain the kids better than the aunt. He also makes observations about the aunt's character and amuses himself in the knowledge that he’s changed the children and their new expectations for stories they may be told in the future.

Cisneros displayed the virtue of courage by attending college and pursuing a major in something that her father deemed "silly", which is English (pg. 367). Even though her brothers thought that the idea of her going to college was "hilarious", Cisneros was not disheartened, instead she focused on her studies and continued writing poems and stories (pg. 367). Deep in her heart, Cisneros knew that the reason her father only agreed to her going to college was because he thought that she can meet a "nice professional" man on campus who will be able to provide her a luxurious life (pg. 367). Despite the lack of support from her family, especially her father, she made something of herself. Cisneros didn't

Cisneros has three major themes in her story: such as relationships with parents, terms of approval, and the perspectives people have of a woman’s role. The relationship with her father is that it was non-existent, she tried to get her father to acknowledge her, yet he wouldn’t. All her father did was encourage her to go to college and find a husband. She is there to please her new-found husband; however, this leads her to introduce herself that she is “the only daughter and only a daughter” (Pg. 401). Whether she meant it sarcastically or ironically.

Writing may be an enthralling experience for one and a clever way to decompress for another. In general, however, writing has different purposes for a variety of people. “Why I Write,” written in the late 20th century by Terry Tempest Williams, describes various reasons for writing narrated from a female’s perspective. The short essay begins in the middle of the night with a woman engulfed in her own thoughts. She abruptly goes forth by reciting the multiple reasons why she continues to write in her life. Through a variety of rhetorical devices such as repetition, imagery, analogies, and symbolism, Terry Tempest Williams produces an elegant piece of writing that offers the audience insight into the narrator’s life and forces the audience to have empathy for the narrator with the situation she is incurring.

It was a cold and windy day, a perfect day to uncover secrets and truths about writers I had heard of, but new little about. I entered the library to escape the weather and lose myself in books about Sandra Ciseneros and the characters she creates in her poems and stories. I began my search at a computer resource station, and then absorbed myself in the materials it provided, which were biographies, criticisms, and the works of Cisneros.

This is an excellent example of when the pressure of meeting our mothers’ expectations do more harm than good to -us- their children. It ended up shaping the narrator’s career, leading to more misery than

During the course of a person’s life, a decision is made as to which direction their life should follow. Most people are encouraged by their loved ones to make this choice for themselves. When Kelly Cherry was twelve, she announced to her musically devoted, string quartet violinist parents that she was going to quit piano lessons and become a writer, in response, “[her] mother said that she would rather kill [her] than have [her] turn out like [her] big brother, a beatnik. She ran to the kitchen to get [a] butcher knife” (“Kelly Cherry”). Needless to say, she was not supported in this career path. Throughout the course of her early writing career, she would hear that she “had no talent for writing” (“Kelly Cherry”). Still, she continued to write, occasionally quitting again and again, like a smoker, only to pick it up again (“Kelly Cherry”). Continually she told herself, “You are not a writer” until one day she revised this to, “If you don’t write your books, no one else will” (“Kelly Cherry”).

In her memoir “One Writer’s Beginnings,” Eudora Welty, a short story-writer and novelist, explains in vivid and eloquent detail, by a series of memories, how she became a writer of fiction. The memoir is structured in three central parts: “Listening,” “Learning to See,” and “Finding a Voice.” Throughout each part, Welty writes a highly detailed and impactful memory and then adds a paragraph of reflection and the lessons she learned from that instance in her life. After reading these three parts, the reader is informed of Welty’s purpose. Her purpose is to educate the reader of the importance of memory.

She wrote about how through hope and determination, she eventually got to where she wanted to be with her father’s support. To begin, she was lonely and felt isolated because of her father not showing support for her. She had hope for her future because she kept trying to achieve the goal she wanted to reach. This is first seen when she writes, “when I was in fifth grade and shared my plans for college with him, I was sure he understood. I remember my father saying ‘Que Bueno, mi’ja, that’s good.’ That meant a lot to me, especially considering my brothers thought the idea hilarious. What I didn’t realize was that my father thought that college was good for girls--for finding a husband” (Cisneros 4). Cisneros wanted to go to college to become a writer and a teacher but her father didn’t see that future for her. In reality, he saw her opportunity to go through college as a perfect way to get husband. This lack of belief in her never deterred her from working to achieve her dreams and she never let her dreams be for nothing. The impact on her father is shown when she changed her father’s opinion on her dream so he now saw

Comprehension question 4: Cisneros’s father believed Cisneros had wasted her education because she hadn’t found a husband during the four years of college. Cisneros reaction to her father’s opinion was one of discontent. She wanted her father to recognize

Geoffrey Chaucer wrote the Canterbury Tales from the view of a pilgrim journeying with many other travelers who all had tales to tell. I believe that the stories told by the characters in Chaucer's book gives us insight into the individual spinning the tale as well as Chaucer as the inventor of these characters and author of their stories. There are three main characters whose stories I will be using as examples: The Knight's Tale, The Miller's Tale, and The Wife of Bath's Tale.