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What Is The Theme Of One Holy Night By Sandra Cisnero

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Sandra Cisnero is well-known author in the literature stories. Her writing is best known by using choice of words and making moral of human’s challenges in what is called home” Earth”. (Wikipedia). Cisnero’s novella, One Holy Night demonstrates her ironic, style descriptions and deals with the theme narrators deals with their challenges.

On the surface, the plot of One Holy Night appears to be like puzzle pieces and tells the story of a Hispanic young girl named Ixchel and her long-life changing difficulties after intercourse with two times older her age who happened to be Serial killer. The main character lived with her grandmother and uncle who were her guardians and didn’t guide her how to deal life challenges. It is told from …show more content…

Then Abuelita made me tell the real story of how the cart had disappeared, all of which I told this time, expect for the night, which I would have to tell anyway, weeks later, when I prayed for the moon of my cycle to come back, but it would not. (OHN 11) The passage illustrates the simple sentenced structure that is typical of Cisnero in addition to the parallel structure in the phrasing, especially in the metaphorically of such words, “moon” and “the cycle”. Moreover, by making rhyme she reinforces the parallelism. In suggestion pity for the Ixchel, and by characterizing the young out blue girl, Cisnero also provide a glimpse of her theme of creates a structural identification between Ixchel and her surroundings. She suggests that young girl and heart breaking of Mother nature …show more content…

He couldn’t talk, just walked around all day with this harmonica in his mouth. Didn’t play it. Just sort of breathed through it, all day long, wheezing, in and out, in and out.
This is how it is with me. Love, I mean”. (OHN 13)
Ixchel doesn’t know meaning of love and have to sacrifice it. She will be living her life to fullest with her child without the child’s father. The style of One Holy Night is shaped by wrong belief and trust of innocent girl and going through the difficulties of life that has been changing her life and her beliefs forever
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

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