Characters In Woman Hollering Creek By Sandra Cisneros

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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.

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