Sandra Cisneros Research Paper

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Sandra Cisneros born in December 20, 1954 in Chicago, Illinois. Cisneros’s parents had eight children, and among them, Cisneros was the only woman. She lived most of her childhood moving from one place to another, from Chicago to Mexico several times. Cisneros being a more independent writer, she started to travel at different parts of the country crossing the geographic and cultural borders (Pearsce 1). Cisneros one of the Hispanic- American contemporary writers most successful worldwide, writes her life through her writings. The inspiration for Sandra Cisneros to write The house on Mango Street was her own life experience. “Richard Rodriguez's Days of Obligation (1992) and Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street (1984) both employ the house as the master metaphor for the construction of identity” (Kaup 363). Her childhood was hard because her parents did not have enough money to support the big family and the fact of having six brothers, affected her. According to Sutton, “she was to recall her …show more content…
She started to write short poems at an early age. Living the American and Hispanic culture at the same time, she needed to focus on something to be proud of both cultures. Putting her feelings and emotions on the paper, led her write numerous short stories and poems. Cisneros received: Third Woman 1987, Random House 1991 and 1992, Alfred A. Knopf 1994, Vintage 1991, Knopf 2002, PEN Center West Award for Best Fiction of 1991, the Quality Paperback Book Club New Voices Award, the Anisfield- Wolf Book Award, the Lannan Foundation Literary Award and Mountain & Plains Booksellers’ Award (2). Sandra Cisneros is a proud Hispanic-American culture woman. She is a novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist. She has been one of the first Hispanic women residents of the United States to obtain commercial success through
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