How do Cisneros’ expectations compare to her father’s expectations? In a three-paragraph essay, describe this conflict. How do Cisneros’ expectations compare to her father’s expectations? How does her experience of family expectations compare with your own? Use examples from the text and from your own knowledge, observations, and experience to support your ideas. Outline Paragraph […]
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Discuss How do Cisneros’ expectations compare to her father’s expectations? How does her experience of family expectations compare with your own?
Description Introduction In “Only Daughter” by Sandra Cisneros, Cisneros describes what it was like to grow up as the only girl in a family of seven children, born to a Mexican-American mother and a Mexican father. In “Only Daughter,” she discusses the difficulties of growing up the only daughter in an American-Mexican family, and how […]
Explain,how is the concept of home something more than a particular place where one lives? What does a home or house mean to a writer and/or think about how the homes that Cisneros inhabits as an adult woman reflect her life and vocation.
Begin by reading Cisneros’ stories. What does a “real” house mean to Cisneros in the title piece, “The House on Mango Street”? Then, read “A House of My Own” reflecting on Cisneros’ ideas of home from her adult perspective of a writer. Choose a particular line or passage from this essay that you think reflects […]
