Are there positive reviews negative critiques about Cisneros work?
Both the negative and positive comments are true because the book could be for older people too. Overall, people like her work. There is a lot of positive feedback on her website. On her website, people have written messages saying how much they enjoyed the book, and how it is a favorite book of theirs.
What are some important themes that often occur in Cisneros work?
The themes in her writing include the meaning of home, belonging, crossing boundaries and cultural expectations of women. Her new memoir, In this interview, she talks about being connected to Mexico and to the United States, and how she hopes to be an ambassador passing between the two cultures.
What else has Cisneros done besides writing?
In addition to her writing, Cisneros has fostered the careers of many aspiring and emerging writers through two non-profits she founded: the Macondo Foundation and the Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Foundation. She is also the organizer of Los MacArturos, Latino MacArthur fellows who are community activists.
How does Cisneros background influence her writing?
Her cultural diversity became a model for her writing in which she shared her experiences living in the Puerto Rican neighborhood of Chicago. In her novel The House on Mango Street she drew inspiration from Mexican and Southwestern popular culture. She tried to depict the lives of the people she could relate to.
Who has influenced Cisneros and her writing?
Ganz notes that Cisneros’s childhood loneliness was instrumental in shaping her later passion for writing. Cisneros’s one strong female influence was her mother, Elvira, who was a voracious reader and more enlightened and socially conscious than her father.
What is notable about Cisneros style?
Cisneros writes in a modernist narrative mode with both North American and Latin American precursors. Her stories do not typically center on a single consciousness or point of view; they are often populated by voices rather than characters; if there is an identifiable narrator, she is usually ironized.
Is House on Mango Street a poem?
Poetry. The House on Mango Street contains many small poems and references to poems, which emphasize the importance of language to Esperanza and her neighbors. These references and poems include a poem Esperanza writes, jump-roping chants, and simple, internal rhymes within paragraphs of the text.
How does Cisneros organize the details of this narrative is this the most effective order for what she is trying to say?
Is this the most effective order for what she is trying to say? She organizes it by order of importance.
What is unique about the way the House on Mango Street is written?
Cisneros’s writing style is unique in the sense that it’s poetic but without sounding too flowery. It’s packed full of imagery and metaphors but it never becomes too muddled. Instead, the message is always clear, without any room for misinterpretation.
How old is Esperanza?
about twelve years
How old is Esperanza at the end of the book?
The book ends on the day of Esperanza’s 14th birthday and Esperanza has finally learned to be grateful for what she does have: her family reunited, friends who love her, and most of all: hope.
What does Esperanza say she will do when she’s older?
What does Esperanza say she will do when she is older? She will own a house and invite the bums in to live in the attic. She will run an orphanage or give money to the poor. She will move away from places where men beat women and girls, and women stare out at windows.
Who is Rapunzel Why would Rafaela wish that she had hair like Rapunzel?
Rapunzel is a fairy tail character. Rafaela wishes to have hair like hers so that she can get out of her house in which her husband has locked her in, and do the things that she wants to do.
What did Esperanza wish for?
The sisters seem to know Esperanza’s wish, and tell her that it will come true. One of the aunts tells her that she “will always be Mango Street,” and that when she leaves, she must always promise to come back for those who cannot leave as easily (41.32).
Who is sire Lois?
Sire is a boy in the neighborhood. Lois is her girlfriend Esperanza noticed that Sire was looking at her. She says that the trees are the only ones who understand her.
Who broke Mamacita’s heart?
The final blow for Mamacita is that her child, whom she has brought with her from Mexico, learns English. It breaks her heart that even he insists upon speaking this ugly language that she cannot understand.
How does Sire make Esperanza feel?
Sire is a neighborhood boy who Esperanza develops a crush on. She notices him looking at her as she walks by, and she tries to stare straight ahead and act unafraid. One day she looks back at him for too long, and she feels shaken by her emotions. Esperanza’s parents say Sire is a “punk” and that she should avoid him.
Why is Esperanza afraid of Sire?
Why is Esperanza afraid of Sire? He makes her uncomfortable & stares at her when she walks by. He makes her “blood freeze” when he looks at her like that. Although she’s curious and afraid to know what he does to Lois.
Who does Esperanza have a crush on?
Sire” Sire
What is Esperanza afraid of?
Esperanza is afraid of Sire because he makes her uncomfortable; she says, “it (makes) your blood freeze to have somebody look at you like that”.
What does Esperanza mean by everything is holding its breath inside me?
This has the themes of coming of age and true love., which Esperanza is longing for. Cisneros uses figurative language when she says, “ Everything is holding its breath inside me” (Cisneros 73). This is kinesthetic imagery because it evokes the sense of feeling.
Why does her curiosity about Sire make her feel as if everything is holding its breath inside me?
Why does Esperanza’s curiosity about Sire make her feel as if “everything is holding its breath inside me?” She desires to feel loved by someone like Sire loves his girlfriend.
Why is Minerva always sad?
Minerva is sad because she is a single mother raising two kids, she feels she is unlucky, and she has a terrible relationship with her husband. Minerva’s husband is not loving at all. He leaves her alone with the kids, so she thinks she is a single mom, but sometimes he comes back.
How does Esperanza feel about her ability to attract sire’s attention?
How does Esperanza feel about her ability to attract Sire’s attention? She feels scared. Esperanza hasn’t been able to attract any boy’s attention.
What does Esperanza mean when she says I think diseases have no eyes?
What does Esperanza mean when she says, “I think diseases have no eyes”? She believes that diseases chose people randomly, “with a dizzy finger”. What’s the impact of Aunt Lupe’s illness on her husband and children?
Why does Esperanza dislike her name?
The name Esperanza means “hope,” but she hates her name. She feels it means “sadness, it means waiting.” She explains that it was her great-grandmother’s name–a woman who was born in the Chinese Year of the horse, like Esperanza. She longs for a new name, one more like “the real me,” like “Zeze the X.”
What do the four trees teach Esperanza?
3. What does Esperanza learn from the trees? The trees teach Esperanza to keep reaching for what she wants, and they show her it is possible to grow.
What do the four skinny trees symbolize?
The trees symbolize strength. They are living, and growing, despite their location in a place where they do not naturally belong. Like the trees, Esperanza is, figuratively speaking, stuck in concrete-the urban asphalt of her Mango Street neighborhood.
How many siblings does Esperanza have?
three siblings
What does Esperanza say about Ruthie?
Esperanza says that Ruthie is good at many things, but instead of getting a job she got married when she was young. Esperanza can’t understand why Ruthie returned to live on Mango Street with her mother, but Ruthie says she is just waiting for her husband to come and take her away. But he never comes.