Salvador Late Or Early Summary

Although there are people that have harder lives than him, Salvador has a harder life than most, due to where he lives and the lack of time he has to spend with others, he has no friends. Sandra Cisneros, the writer of “Salvador Late or Early,” is a single sister with five brothers. She keys up strong feelings in her short stories about loneliness and distance. I believe Salvador, “Is a boy who is no one’s friend,”. He helps his mother with just about everything “Helps his mama, who is busy with the business of the baby,” for he is the older child in his family “Shakes the sleeping brothers awake.” A father is never mentioned in the story and Salvador takes the role of the man of the family. He is always working for his family by helping

them in their daily lives “Ties their shoes, combs their hair with water, feeds them milk and cornflakes from a tin cup in the dim dark of the morning.” He does not have time to have friends and lives only with the company of his family. “Boy with its geography of scars, it’s history of hurts,” this is because of his lack of friends he is picked on at school and on the streets just because of his appearance and lifestyle. He returns every day to a home of broken down frames and moldy wood; “Runs in along somewhere in a vague direction where homes are the color of bad weather, lives behind a raw wood doorway.” He has no time to himself, for his mother is always busy with a baby, and he is caring for his younger brothers all day and night. Salvador, with the absence of friendship, has a harder life than most and struggles to survive with his family in the low life section of a city.