Woman Hollering Creek
Cultural backgrounds are strong influences to way individuals make their
decisions. In “Woman Hollering Creek” by Sandra Cisneros, Cleofilas Enriqueta
DeLeon Hernandez marries, Juan Pedro Martinez Sanchez, to quick to take account
of the challenges she will be facing: abuse, alcoholism, and unfaithfulness. Cisneros’
individuality, coming from a broken home and cultural difference life, adds her
experiences to depict what she faced through Cleofilas. She idolizes “telenovelas”
that she watches with her neighbors grasping the false knowledge of what love
between a man and woman is. Cisneros has a use of parallelism between the
author’s reality and fiction. The solid use of irony in the story reveals the actual
dangers Cleofilas faces in her day-to-day life. In addition, rather than Cisneros
adding specific detail of how Cleofilas feels, she displayed symbolism throughout the
story to illustrate the genuine emotion of hurt in her. Although Cisneros’ character,
Cleofilas, has a static mentality of life, she forms an unrealistic idea of love really is,
she illustrates her encouragement to the reader in order to state her beliefs that life
and love are better with a dynamic knowledge of it.
An individual’s cultural will always follow them throughout their life. Sandra
Cisneros added her roots and background experiences into “Woman Hollering
Creek.” A story that has actual personal histories from other individuals, it can be
more relatable to the readers. Cisneros faced poverty in her childhood, and knew
the cultural difference from Mexico and America was great. “[She] decided to write
about upbringing, including divided cultural loyalties, feelings of alienation, and
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... to help other Chicano girls
who cross the boarder to live the American dream. Cleofilas was a prime example of
how woman face the same amount of difficulties as they would in Mexico. She had
not only a flat mentality of what love was with a man, and life would be across the
boarder, awakened when all the difficulties she encountered were changed through
an independent woman. The presentation of Cleofilas was simple to assure she
would never release her roots of a Mexican woman. However, the American roots of
other woman, strong and self-reliant not only were influenced by the woman rights
Cisneros holds dear to her heart, but also were expressed thoroughly by Felice in
the story. Although, not all fresh-off-the-boat women may not have a bright picture
of what life is; they can be influenced by the strong words and experiences from
others.
Another interesting factor about this story is the irony and tone in this story and how it adds toward each character.
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Irony can often be found in many literary works. “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin is masterfully written full of irony. The characters of the short story, Mrs. Mallard, Josephine, Richards, Mr. Brently Mallard, and the doctors all find their way into Chopin’s ironic twists. Chopin embodies various ironies in “The Story of an Hour” through representations of verbal irony, dramatic irony, and situational irony.
Irony is a useful device for giving stories many unexpected twists and turns. In Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour," irony is used as an effective literary device. Situational irony is used to show the reader that what is expected to happen sometimes doesn't. Dramatic irony is used to clue the reader in on something that is happening that the characters in the story do not know about. Irony is used throughout Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" through the use of situational irony and the use of dramatic irony.
Irony is the most significant technique that the author uses in this story. It shows the contrast between Louise's expectation and her limited reality. It also gives the story more twists and turns. The reader knows Louise's desire. However, her sister and her friend do not know.
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