This document provides biographical information about author Sandra Cisneros. It notes that Cisneros is an American writer born in 1954 in Chicago, Illinois. She was one of seven children and the only daughter. Cisneros is best known for her 1984 novel The House on Mango Street, which tells the story of a young Latina woman coming of age. The novel has sold over two million copies. Cisneros has written poetry collections and short story collections that explore the Latina experience in the United States. She has received numerous awards for her writing.

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Sandra Cisneros

4. Sandra Cisneros
American writer and poet. Born on December 20, 1954, in Chicago,
Illinois. One of seven children and the only daughter, she has written
extensively about the Latina experience in the United States. Cisneros
is best known for The House on Mango Street (1984), which tells the
story of a young Latina woman coming of age in Chicago. The novel has
sold more than two million copies.
Cisneros has explored many literary forms in her work. She wrote
several collections of poetry, including My Wicked, Wicked Ways (1987),
which was well received by critics. She created an impressionistic
portrait of life on the border between the United States and Mexico
through a series of vignettes in Woman Hollering Creek and Other
Stories (1991).
Cisneros has received numerous awards for her work, including the
MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 1995 and the Texas Medal of the
Arts Award in 2003. She lives in San Antonio, Texas.

5. Summary
The Story is about a young girl, growing as the only daughter of six other brothers.
When growing up, the father includes her as one of his Seven Boys. She grows up
near with her six brothers, and learns a lot about each other. She wants her father to
understand that she is important also, but the father diverts his attention to her
brothers. Then when she is in the 5th grade, she shares her dreams to go to college,
and do something with her life. Her brothers all laugh at her. Her father says while
in college, she will find a husband there. The father’s judgment and the common
stereotype states that Her destiny is to become a good “House Wife.” But after four
years of college and some time at the undergraduate school, she still hasn't got a
husband let alone a boyfriend. Her father says that she has wasted her education. She
later says that she always was writing for her father, and writing for mainstream
culture. Ten years went by, and now she is now a professional writer creating works of
art. Her father has developed an unwell sickness. She gives her father some of her
own story to read in Spanish (Father’s native language), and he likes it a lot. At the
end of reading, the father becomes very proud of her daughter.

6. Elements of the Story
 Plot & Setting: Takes place Chicago, Illinois in the mid to the late 20th century, in a
household of nine including six brothers and one sister.
 Crisis & Conflict: The girl trying to help her father believe that she is not a statistic of
some common belief, or some stereotypical theory by becoming a renounced and
professional author and writer.
 Point of view: The narrator is telling the story in First person, using the words “I, me,
my.” The narrator also is describing and telling the story like she was the story.
 First Person is usually used if the author is actually telling what was experienced, and
what really happened in the story.

7. NEW WORDS

8. Anthology =
A published collection of poems
or other pieces of writing.

9. Hilarious =
Extremely funny

10. Scribble =
Write something carelessly

11. Filmed =
To form a thin layer of liquid

12. Vial =
A small glass container of medicine