Summary Of Salvador Late Or Early By Sandra Cisneros

The way childhood innocence impacts a young girl among a different culture, comes with the lack of experience in the world, especially within social classification and cultural aspects of everyday life. Sandra Cisneros is a Latina-American writer from Chicago who has been critically acclaimed for her well-written vignettes in Woman Hollering Creek. She writes about experiences within her life that interlace with the way inferiority can leverage minority. The short stories “Salvador Late or Early”, “Barbie Q”, and “My Friend Lucy Who Smells Like Corn” explore childhood innocence, and reveals the way poverty and socioeconomic status can influence young children of all cultures.

The short story “Salvador Late or Early” demonstrates

The narrator is a young girl from a lower class neighborhood, who has difficulty affording new toys and accessories that are a necessity for her reputation around her friend group. In the story, she explains, “So what if our Barbie’s smell like smoke when you hold them up to your nose even after you wash them and wash them and wash them.” (Barbie Q). This quote infers that the narrator is upset with the circumstances she has around getting new dolls, and that she doesn’t care that her toys come reused from a neighborhood market. Throughout the story, the author uses figurative language to describe the way poverty can affect the childhood innocence of the narrator. Even though we can infer that the girl is from a lower class neighborhood, the narrator still explains that she is able to be creative in solving problems from economic difficulty. As the girl is playing with her dolls, she says, “This and a dress invented from an old sock when we cut holes here, here, and here, the cuff rolled over for a glamorous, fancy free, off the shoulder look.” (Barbie Q). From this quote, we can infer that the narrator is from a lower class neighborhood, and is unable to afford new toys, so she improvises by creating her own Barbie fashion. This short story uses figurative language to describe the way childhood innocence is affected through socioeconomic