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By SANDRA CISNEROS

Std. IX EnglishUnit IIChapter III

Sandra Cisneros

Born December 20, 1954 (age 57)Chicago, Illinois

Occupation

Novelist, poet, short story writer

Nationality

USA

Ethnicity Mexican American

Notable work(s)

The House on Mango Street,Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories

Notable award(s)

American Book Award, Clay McDaniel Fellowship

About the authorAbout the author• Sandra Cisneros (born December 20,

1954) is an American writer best known for her acclaimed first novel The House on Mango Tree (1984). She is the recipient of numerous awards including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Cisneros has held a variety of professional positions, working as a teacher, a counselor, a college recruiter, a poet-in-the-schools, and an arts administrator, and has maintained a strong commitment to community and literary causes. In 1998 she established the Macondo Foundation.

• Cisneros currently resides in San Antonio, Texas.

ThemeTheme

Even if you feel unappreciated by society and even disregarded and rejected because you are the minority of the crowd, at the end, your true colours will shine and people will respect you for the person you truly are…

SummarySummaryThe 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 “Siete Niños,” (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 Then when she is in the 5th grade, she shares 5th grade, she shares her dreams to go to her dreams to go to college, and do college, and do something with her life. something with her life. Her brothers all laugh at Her brothers all laugh at her. Her father says her. Her father says  while in college, she will  while in college, she will find a husband there. find a husband there.

The father’s judgment and The father’s judgment and the common stereotype the common stereotype states that Her destiny is states that Her destiny is to become a good “House to become a good “House Wife.” But after four years Wife.” But after four years of college and some time at of college and some time at the undergraduate school, the undergraduate school, she still hasn't got a she still hasn't got a husband let alone a husband let alone a boyfriend. Her father says boyfriend. Her father says that she has wasted her that she has wasted her education. She later says education. She later says that she always was writing that she always was writing for her father, and writing for her father, and writing for mainstream culture. for mainstream culture.

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

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