Parents and children have a special connection together. Parent and child’s relationship are really important because that is what that puts the child in a good life. Parents/child relationship sometimes can be complicated, and they can not understand each other, but at the end they are together due to their special relationship. “Only Daughter” is an essay by Sandra Cisneros about her relationship with her father, and “Public and Private Language” is an essay by Richard Rodriguez about how they had to learn a new language. The next two paragraphs will explain more about this essays, which are “Only Daughter” by Sandra Cisneros, and “Public and Private Language” by Richard Rodriguez.
The first essay was about one girl that talks about her family and her writing. Sandra tells how being the only daughter affected her life. For example, “Being an only daughter in a family of six sons forced me by circumstance to spend a lot of time by myself because my brothers felt it beneath them to play with a girl in public” (Cisneros 1). She thinks that being lonely had its bright side because she was able to write and imagine better. She also tells her story that girls are
Megrabian 2…show more content… Her father saw college for girls as a chance for girls to find a husband. She wanted it to write for her father as an example “In a sense, everything I have written has been for him, to win his approval even though I know my father can’t read English words...” (Cisneros 1). She wanted to impress her father with her writing talent. Her book got translated into Spanish, so she takes a book to his dad so she can get his approval. She eventually reads her book to her father who liked the book. At the end, her father accepts his daughter by saying “Of all the wonderful things that happened to me last year, that was the most wonderful.” (Cisneros
