In sandra cisneros’s novella The House on Mango Street the author uses many rhetorical strategies to capture her audience's sympathy for Esperanza. These strategies include assonance, consonance, alliteration, and syntax. In the first vignette “House of My Own” (108) Esperanza declares that she has finally moved away from Mango street and into her own home. The author uses repetition to emphasize that the house belongs to her. She begins the first few sentences with ‘Not’ emphasizing that it doesn’t belong to someone else. This short choppy syntax thrust the image over and over into the reader's head making the image much more vivid. Then she follows up with ‘my’ talking about all of the items that she now posses. The repetition grinds
In 102 Minutes, Chapter 7, authors Dwyer and Flynn use ethos, logos, and pathos to appeal to the readers’ consciences, minds and hearts regarding what happened to the people inside the Twin Towers on 9/11. Of particular interest are the following uses of the three appeals.
In “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Gilman, the author utilizes repetition to showcase the growing frustration of the main character towards her husband’s ineffective treatment. Gilman repetitively asks herself “But what is one to do?” Her repetitive questioning conveys to the reader that the treatment that her husband is giving her for her illness is obviously not working. In reality, her husband is unable to figure out what she has and he only puts her in isolation to hope she gets better. This puts an emphasis on the growing frustration the main character is feeling; she knowns that the treatment is not working and she knows her situation is only getting worse. She is frustrated at this, which is evident through her questioning.
The House on Mango Street, a fictional book written by Sandra Cisneros is a book filled with many hidden messages. The book revolves around a young girl named Esperanza who feels out of place with the life she has. She sees that the things around her don’t really add up. The story is told from Esperanza’s perspective and the events she goes through to find herself. Through the strategy of fragmenting sentences, Cisneros establishes that the sense of not belonging, creates a person’s individuality that makes them who they are.
Creative Section Prompt: Write a scene where an “unlovable” character is involved in a surprising or unexpected hobby or appreciation for something.
“People who had incurred the displeasure of the party simply disappeared and were never heard of again.
The Letter from Birmingham Jail was written by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in April of 1963. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was one of several civil rights activists who were arrested in Birmingham Alabama, after protesting against racial injustices in Alabama. Dr. King wrote this letter in response to a statement titled A Call for Unity, which was published on Good Friday by eight of his fellow clergymen from Alabama. Dr. King uses his letter to eloquently refute the article. In the letter dr. king uses many vivid logos, ethos, and pathos to get his point across. Dr. King writes things in his letter that if any other person even dared to write the people would consider them crazy.
Throughout The House on Mango Street Esperanza learns to resist the gender norms that are deeply imbedded in her community. The majority of the other female characters in the novel have internalized the male viewpoint and they believe that it is their husbands or fathers responsibility to care for them and make any crucial decisions for them. However, despite the influence of other female characters that are “immasculated”, according to Judith Fetterley, Esperanza’s experiences lead her to become a “resisting reader” in Fettereley’s terminology because she does not want to become like the women that she observes, stuck under a man’s authority. She desires to leave Mango Street and have a “home of her own” so that she will never be forced to depend on a man (Cisneros 108). During the course of the novel Esperanza eventually realizes that it is also her duty to go back to Mango Street “For the ones that cannot out”, or the women who do not challenge the norms (110). Esperanza eventually turns to her writing as a way to escape from her situation without having to marry a man that she would be forced to rely on like some of her friends do.
“Someday, I will have a best friend all my own. One I can tell my secrets to. One who will understand my jokes without me having to explain them” (9). These are the longing words spoken by Esperanza. In the novel The House on Mango Street, Esperanza is young girl experiencing adolescence not only longing for a place to fit in but also wanting to be beautiful. This becomes complicated as Esperanza becomes more sexually aware. Throughout the novel, Cisneros argues the importance of beauty and how Esperanza deals with beauty as a part of her identity. When Esperanza meets Sally a new friend, Esperanza’s whole world is turned upside down. Esperanza’s views on beauty change from a positive outlook to a negative one by watching how beauty has damaged Sally’s life.
Esperanza is first influenced by an experience out of her control when she is forced to uproot from her previous home and move to a new house on Mango Street. Her initial idea of the house was that it was just another house; falling apart like the ones before with,
When looking at Golding and Marquez's techniques of plot and dialect, one can determine that these methods of writing are used to advocate civility. The authors of both works use their ability to tell stories as a platform for their own beliefs to be heard. These techniques they use, such as plot and dialect, serve as the hidden implications of themselves. The main characters Ralph and Maria transition from an individual in a new and isolated environment to a savage who is a part of this place.
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For example, when esperanza wants to describe what it’s like having to tote around her annoying sister, she sums up her loneliness by saying "Until then I am a red balloon, a balloon tied to an anchor". By using such fluid and poetic writing, Sandra gives us a great mental image of how Esperanza is feeling. This helps us understand Esperanza more as a character and it once again sums up Esperanza’s feelings of loneliness. Sandra Cisneros writes in a very short and choppy way that makes reading her book very easy but still contains the same power in her sentences. For example, “There was a family. All were little. Their arms were little, and their hands were little, and their height was not tall, and their feet very small.” This quote is short and choppy, but still gets the point across. It helps us to understand what this family looks like and makes the sentences easy to read and understand. Also, Sandra’s writing style as in writing vignettes makes the book more powerful. The reader only knows certain points throughout the character life, and mostly those that change the character or effect them in some way. This makes it easier to see how the character changes throughout the book and which things affect the character the most. Esperanza's mom tells her to not "lay her [her neck] on the threshold waiting for the ball and chain" of marriage. This is a sample of a vignette and poses as a good example of a powerful sentence the author uses to give you a good mental
HYPOTHETICAL INTRODUCTION: Eudora Welty’s short story « Why I Live at the P.O. » is a story of family relationships. The narrator, Sister, imposes her point of view to the reader about the disturbing return of her sister, Stella-Rondo. By confronting Stella-Rondo, Sister gradually becomes a stranger to her family, and eventually leaves the family home to live in the post office where she works. In this paper, I will question the point of view of the narrator, who is rather unreliable. Also, I will analyze how denial can lead to isolation. Finally, I will study how Welty’s use of irony affects the story.
In “Walking in the City”, written by Michel de Certeau, the concepts of strategies and tactics are discussed. Certeau begins with suggesting that having a trajectory will initiate movement of an operation. For example, one must have an idea, or concept, to start a project. Once the idea is made, an operation will be in the works and the concepts of a strategy will protrude. Strategies are concepts of early planning-when one decides to transform an area, they must rationally plan it. They are used by larger corporations such as construction firms, architects, and the rich and the powerful. However, with strategy comes tactic. Tactics are portrayed by those who are subordinate. These people tend to be opportunistic and defensive to challenge the ideas of organizational power structures. Tactics are meant to fight higher order through the creation of the people’s own laws and regulations. They are also personalized ways in how people get from one place to another.
Often, the value of a piece of literature is measured by how accurately it reflects certain contemporary social issues or recurring psychological phenomena, as understood not only by scholars, but also laymen. Literature, therefore, is collectively a study of linguistic experiments and human responses. The ability to manipulate diction and syntax to create convincing and original narratives that calculatingly evoke specific emotional reactions strikes me as a weapon as empowering as it is enthralling. Nabokov’s “Lolita”, the epitome of the unreliable narrator trope, commands poetic language that never fails to fascinate and beguile readers; its influence and effectiveness are what I hope to someday emulate in my writing.