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This 10 page paper examines the use of characterization, point of view and symbolism by the writers Sandra Cisneros and Theodore Roethke. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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similarities and differences between them. Discussion Sandra Cisneross childhood and upbringing impacted her career to an enormous extent. She was the only daughter in a family with seven children, and
felt that her brothers controlled her and tried to force her into adopting a traditional female role (Sandra Cisneros, 2003). Her father was Mexican and frequently missed his native country,
with the result that the family moved back and forth between Chicago and Mexico City numerous times (Sandra Cisneros, 2003). Cisneros often wrote poems and stories as a child, but
it wasnt until she attended a writers workshop at the University of Iowa that she realized "her experiences as a Latina woman were unique and outside the realm of dominant
American culture" (Sandra Cisneros, 2003). Once she realized this, she "decided to write about conflicts directly related to her upbringing, including divided cultural loyalties, feelings of alienation, and degradation associated
with poverty" (Sandra Cisneros, 2003). Once she understood that she could tell her experiences through fiction, she wrote her novel The House on Mango Street, the work for which she
is probably best known (Sandra Cisneros, 2003). The protagonist, a girl named Esperanza, is a thinly disguised portrait of Cisneros herself: she is a "poor, Latina adolescent who longs for
a room of her own and a house of which she can be proud" (Sandra Cisneros, 2003). Among the issues Esperanza faces are the "disadvantages of choosing marriage over education,
the importance of writing as an emotional release, and the sense of confusion associated with growing up" (Sandra Cisneros, 2003). Clearly, these are issues that the author is dealing with;
they are not confined to her character. Critics point out that Cisneross style is autobiographical, in that its easy to identify her in the women she writes about. But this
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