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
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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
The story aids in convincing society of the negatives of the Bourgeoisie, as they are portrayed this way in the piece of literature through the sisters’ self-importance and sense of entitlement. Moreover, the hard working and virtuous Beauty embodies the positive aspects of the Proletariat in the text. Furthermore, the merchant’s wealth directly affects his importance in the story. This story is one of the many examples of an allegory used to promote an author's viewpoint as it is seen as a romantic story on the surface, but underneath, shows the importance of wealth and presence of class within society. This story can prove that readers must broaden their scope in order to examine all aspects of a text and analyze them in a way to draw true
Night is a dramatic book that tells the horror and evil of the concentration camps that many were imprisoned in during World War II. Throughout the book the author Elie Wiesel, as well as many prisoners, lost their faith in God. There are many examples in the beginning of Night where people are trying to keep and strengthen their faith but there are many more examples of people rebelling against God and forgetting their religion.
Sandra Cisneros demonstrates a challenge that is not obviously to overcome for a young child, in other words one can say that it is remarkable to undertake such responsibility by awaking the older women about their sufferings for an improvement and by keeping watch over her sister constitutes the most important task for her and this act demonstrates she does not neglect her family even she care about her neighbors welfare but. This double responsibility are important aspects for allowing to provide relevant evidences that depict the early responsibility throughout the protagonist Esperanza
Night is a novel written from the perspective of a Jewish teenager, about his experiences
The first passage reveals the parallel suffering occurring in the lives of different members of the family, which emphasizes the echoes between the sufferings of the father and the narrator. The narrator’s father’s despair over having watched
In the short story, the writer tells a woman’s depression which guides her to break the limits and restrictions over woman. The woman who has no name or identity symbolises all women’s suppressed position in patriarchal society. In the story, the woman describes the house and her rooms with the words; ancestral hall, old-fashioned chintz, barred windows, heavy-immovable bed. The descriptions depict the house as patriarchy’s realm. Also, the yellow wallpaper’s surrounding of her shows the woman in a trapped, confined and repressed position. Not only the yellow symbolise the weakness, but the paper also
The author agrees with the idea of women as victims through the characterisation of women in the short story. The women are portrayed as helpless to the torment inflicted upon them by the boy in the story. This positions readers to feel sympathy for the women but also think of the world outside the text in which women are also seen as inferior to men. “Each season provided him new ways of frightening the little girls who sat in front of him or behind him”. This statement shows that the boy’s primary target were the girls who sat next to him. This supports the tradition idea of women as the victims and compels readers to see that the women in the text are treated more or less the same as the women in the outside world. Characterisation has been used by the author to reinforce the traditional idea of women as the helpless victims.
In Night by Elie Wiesel, the author reflects on his own experience of being separated from his family and eventually his own religion. This separation was not by any means voluntary, they were forced apart during the Holocaust. Wiesel was a Jew when the invasion of Hungary occurred and the Germans ripped members of his religion away from their home in Sighet. A once peaceful community where Wiesel learned to love the Kabbalah was now home to only dust and lost memories. Most members of that Jewish community were never to return, hell greeted them with open arms as they walked through the now rusty gates of Auschwitz. In order to survive unimaginable circumstances that were enforced in these camps, a boy had to hang on to his humanity. But by no means did humanity stay with the boy, being subjected to the horror of concentration camps, Auschwitz and Buchenwald, Elie Wiesel saw first-hand how members of other communities attempt to silence opposing voices. All of the pain that Wiesel saw inspired him to keep watch and tell stories for people who wouldn’t live on to tell them for their own families. Stories are what keeps a person alive and through Eliezer’s words that he puts down many are able to get a sense of closure in knowing what occurred at these camps. One story occurred on the first train ride away from home, a lady named Madame Schächter was beaten up for crying out against imminent death, unseen by others.
In this poem, symbolism is used to help reader’s find deeper meaning in the little things included and show that everything comes back to the father’s fear of the child he adores growing older and more independent. “In a room full of books in a world of stories, he can recall not one, and soon he thinks the boy will give up on his father.” This sentence makes a reader assume that the story the five year old so
One theme in Night is that inhumanity can cause losing faith in God. For example Wiesel is at a concentration camp where he tries to
Night is a recollection of Elie Wiesel’s time spent during the holocaust. It is a gripping tale of survival and death. While it is a small book, it has a huge message. During the time in which the book takes place, the Jewish people were srtripped of their humanity. Elie and his fellow inmates at Auschwitz endure dehumanization throughout starvation and on the train to Buchenwald.
World War II is a very impactful point in history where the Holocaust is viewed as one of the worst acts of human genocide. Countless Jewish victims endured traumatizing amounts of suffering and pain that transformed their lives as these experiences deprived them of their humanity and trust in others. The novel ‘’Night’’ depicts the extraordinary and painful experiences that many Holocaust prisoners endured: portraying the traumatizing effects it had on the survivors. The novel is written by Eliezer’s perspective as a survivor whose faith in god, faith in humanity, and sense of justice in the world are affected by the impact of his experiences during the Holocaust. Eliezer lived in Sighet, a town in Hungarian Transylvania, growing up to study the Torah and the Kabala with the help of a friendly teacher named Moishe the Beadle. Eliezer receives lessons from Moishe the Beadle who instructs and teaches him about Jewish mysticism and about Jewish culture. Eliezer’s willingness and motivation to study his religion highlights his devotion and strong faith towards God in the beginning of the novel but later disintegrates as he experiences the process of selection and the Germans’ Final
The author starts the book with the story of her aunt. This story was a well-kept family secret being that her aunt’s actions were of great disappointment to the family. The “no name woman” as the story names her, was forgotten by all her family because she had a child that was not from her husband. This story gives a clear
I believe that Cisneros demonstrates that individual values can and usually are socially constructed. As critic Ellen McKracken writes, "the volume's simple, poetic language, with its
It is with closer inspection of these three parts that the more generalized and abstract component of Schoenberg’s relationship to the Pierrot character can be surmised, in which Pierrot is viewed as the archetype of the creative individual in society. In the first part, Pierrot is presented as “a poet whose muse is the moon.” Having immediately established the moon as the sower of artistic inspiration in “Moondrunk,” Schoenberg goes on to present various scenes in which the poet’s fancy is enacted. In “Colombine” he wishes to woo his beloved with poetry, while in “The Dandy” he preens before his mirror, illuminated by moonlight and subsuming himself in it. The image of the poet (a clear stand-in for any artistic creator) as a being both inspired and apart is clear.