Cisneros Essay

The book Woman Hollering Creek, by Sandra Cisneros highlights many examples of “everyday verbal mythology” in the Hispanic culture, literacy and language as sites of conflict build up. The violence in lack of translation, interpretation by translators, culture betrayal and existence of encoded language only familiar to insiders are some of the issues that seems not to appeal to the translators. The sufferings and subordination of both the culture and language by the leading culture is accompanied

mayor of this town, Henry G. Cisneros has spent years trying to make the dream of homeownership come true for low-income families. Capitalizing on a housing expansion he helped set free, he joined the boards of a major builder, KB Home, and the largest mortgage lender in the nation. For the three years he was a director at KB Home, Mr. Cisneros says his mistake was not the greed that afflicted many of his counterparts in banking and housing; it was unwavering belief. Cisneros, there were small and big

between the two buildings on either side” (Cisneros 4). Personification: “... windows so small that you’d think they were holding their breath… ” (Cisneros 4). Personification: “... the front door is so swollen…” (Cisneros 4). Simile: “My papa’s hair is like a broom… ” (Cisneros 6). Metaphor: “And me, my hair is lazy” (Cisneros 6). Simile: “And Kiki, who is the youngest, has hair like fur” (Cisneros

In My Name by Sandra Cisneros, the author herself explains the meaning of her name, Esperanza, in both the English and Spanish language and how it is not the name she wants to inherit from her great-grandmother because of her life occurrence. Cisneros explains the meaning of her name Esperanza by stating it that “In English my name means hope. In Spanish it means too many letters.” (109). She also explains that her great-grandmother was born in the Chinese year of the horse which is supposed to mean

story “Eleven,” by Sandra Cisneros is narrated through a young eleven year old girl, Rachel, whose emotions and actions clash with her inexperienced age. She talks about how sometimes, people act younger, but never actually act older, in a sense, and how only if people reach an age, or time period in their life, do they fully understand what their emotions and actions mean. Literary elements, like characterization, symbolism, diction, and imagery, are expressed through Cisneros’ writing style and her

Sandra Cisneros uses her writing of houses to emphasize the fact that your house does play a part in the way you're viewed, treated, and expected to act. This is seen on various occasions throughout the story. As the main character Esperanza mentions them often. The first example is when Esperanza explains when she one of the nuns from her school see her playing outside so the nun ask where she lives. Esperanza points to her house and the nun responds “You live there?” (Cisneros 5). Cisneros writes

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

In the novel,The House on Mango Street, Cisneros uses a powerful collection of imagery however, one of the strongest examples would be in the chapter My Name, which displays Esperanza’s insecurities in a land who struggles to accept her. “In English my name means hope. In Spanish it means too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting,” (Cisneros pg.10). Esperanza explains the meaning of hope for Hispanic people in a few simple words: sadness and waiting. For millions, it represents the wait

Immigration policies in the 1990’s made it fairly easy for people to enter the country in search of a new start. In the short stories of Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street, it exemplifies the struggle of a young latina girl, Esperanza Cordero, growing up in a large city during the immigration crisis of the late 1980’s and 90’s. Cisneros does an excessive job expressing the personal issues immigrants faced during their early stages of immigration and shows the, not necessarily failure but

1. Identify an instance where Cisneros uses powerful imagery. Explain the effect of that imagery upon the reader. Remember that imagery can appeal to any of the senses , including sight, sound, taste, smell, to touch. Cisneros used powerful imagery appealing to the sense of sight when portraying their dream house, “[their] house would have running water and pipes that worked. And inside it would have real stairs, not hallway stairs, but stairs inside like the houses on T.V. And [they’d] have