Group Questions on “Only Daughter” by Sandra Cisneros.

Sandra Cisneros is a poet, short story writer, novelist, essayist, performer, and artist whose work explores the lives of the working-class. Her numerous awards include NEA fellowships in both poetry and fiction, the Texas Medal of the Arts, a MacArthur Fellowship, several honorary doctorates and national and international book awards.

My Name By Sandra Cisneros. Jacob Ledford Professor Vasconcelos Hammock English 1102M 21 January 2012 Sandra Cisneros Sandra Cisneros was born the daughter of a Mexican-American mother and a Mexican immigrant father. She grew up as the only daughter of a family of 7 children.

Sandra Cisneros, the award-winning author of the highly acclaimed The House on Mango Street and several other esteemed works, has produced a stunning new novel, Caramelo. This long-anticipated novel is an all-embracing epic of family history, Mexican history, the immigrant experience, and a young Mexican-American woman’s road to adulthood. We.

Eleven by Sandra Cisneros. What they don't understand about birthdays and what they never tell you is that. when you're eleven, you're also ten, and nine, and eight, and seven, and six, and. five, and four, and three, and two and one. And when you wake up on your. eleventh birthday you expect to feel eleven, but you don't. You open your eyes and.

At school they say my name funny as if the syllables were made out of tin and hurt the roof of your mouth. But in Spanish my name is made out of a softer something, like silver, not quite as thick.

Welcome to the LitCharts study guide on Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street. Created by the original team behind SparkNotes, LitCharts are the world's best literature guides. The House on Mango Street: Introduction. A concise biography of Sandra Cisneros plus historical and literary context for The House on Mango Street.

Mericans by Sandra Cisneros The last two stories are the most important in terms of their themes: bilingual and bicultural identity, crossing the border, and knowing or not knowing that one’s home lies in two countries. “Mericans” plays with the border identity, whereas “Tepeyac” is a story about recognizing, longing for, and returning to one’s roots.

The House on Mango Street is a 1984 novel by Mexican-American author Sandra Cisneros.Structured as a series of vignettes, it tells the story of Esperanza Cordero, a 12-year-old Chicana girl growing up in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago.

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros is not the traditional novel, but a collection of short pieces, all written from the view of Esperanza, a young Hispanic girl. Over the course of the book, as Esperanza grows, she describes the people who come in and out of her life on Mango Street.

Autobiography Writing. Lesson 5: my name. My Name. From The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. In English, my name means hope. In Spanish it means too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting. It is like the number nine. A muddy color.

Eleven Summary. On her eleventh birthday, Rachel goes to school dreaming of the presents, birthday cake, and well-wishes to follow that evening. But an incident with Mrs. Price, a teacher straight out of the black lagoon, and a horrible red sweater has Rachel wishing she were much older than eleven. Story.

Ethnic Identity of Women in House on Mango Street and Woman Hollering Creek The novels The House on Mango Street (Cisneros 1984) and Woman Hollering Creek (Cisneros 1992) relate the new American through the eyes of Cisneros. The women in both novels are caught in the middle of their ethnic identity.