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ONLY DAUGHTER Sandra Cisneros

Sandra CisnerosAmerican writer and poet. Born on December 20, 1954, in Chicago, Illinois. One of seven children and the only daughter, she has written extensively about the Latina experience in the United States. Cisneros is best known for The House on Mango Street (1984), which tells the story of a young Latina woman coming of age in Chicago. The novel has sold more than two million copies.Cisneros has explored many literary forms in her work. She wrote several collections of poetry, including My Wicked, Wicked Ways (1987), which was well received by critics. She created an impressionistic portrait of life on the border between the United States and Mexico through a series of vignettes in Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (1991).Cisneros has received numerous awards for her work, including the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 1995 and the Texas Medal of the Arts Award in 2003. She lives in San Antonio, Texas.

Summary The Story is about a young girl, growing as the only daughter of six other brothers. When growing up, the father includes her as one of his Seven Boys. She grows up near with her six brothers, and learns a lot about each other. She wants her father to understand that

she is important also, but the father diverts his attention to her brothers. Then when she is in the 5th grade, she shares her dreams to go to college, and do something with her life. Her brothers all laugh at her. Her father says  while in college, she will find a husband

there. The father’s judgment and the common stereotype states that Her destiny is to become a good “House Wife.” But after four years of college and some time at the

undergraduate school, she still hasn't got a husband let alone a boyfriend. Her father says that she has wasted her education. She later says that she always was writing for her father, and writing for mainstream culture. Ten years went by, and now she is now a

professional writer creating works of art. Her father has developed an unwell sickness. She gives her father some of her own story to read in Spanish (Father’s native language), and he likes it a lot. At the end of reading, the father becomes very proud of her daughter.

Elements of the Story

Plot & Setting: Takes place Chicago, Illinois in the mid to the late 20th century, in a household of nine including six brothers and one sister.

Crisis & Conflict: The girl trying to help her father believe that she is not a statistic of some common belief, or some stereotypical theory by becoming a renounced and professional author and writer.

Point of view: The narrator is telling the story in First person, using the words “I, me, my.” The narrator also is describing and telling the story like she was the story. 

First Person is usually used if the author is  actually telling what was experienced, and what really happened in the story. 

NEW WORDS

Anthology = A published collection of poems or other pieces of writing.

Hilarious =

Extremely funny

Scribble =

Write something carelessly

Filmed =

To form a thin layer of liquid

Vial =

A small glass container of medicine

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