Friday, March 15, 2019

Mericans :: World Literature Sandra Cisneros

In the short story Mericans by Sandra Cisneros, we appear to be reading about a small place in Mexico. The condition uses many details in the story for us to visualize the pagan environment. The mix of Spanish words in the story such as, La Virgen de Guadalupe and la ofrenda give the sense of a different culture. The use of the dire grandmother kneeling at mass makes you visualize a limited heritage and ethnic behavior. The word barbarian that the grandmother uses to describe the place of origin of the children, also points out cultural differences. It fronts the author is trying to make us sense a primaeval culture, and not to make assumptions based on physical characters. The awful grandmother (Cisneros p.30) is an example of a person in the story living in two cultural worlds, while she clings to her cultural heritage, she still doesnt want to accept the American culture of the children. The children, in the story, may look like Native Americans or Mexicans, but their mai n lyric poem is English. The children also use examples of American culture with the comic characters, Flash Gordon and Ming the Merciless. The children in the story embrace more of the American culture than a native culture with the use of the comic characters. The little girl tends to struggle dread her grandmothers cultural heritage, and it seems to take her quite a bit of effort doing it. The children seem to be content playacting and carrying on without the bother of what the grandmother is doing, and they build no references to heroes of their native culture.The story tends to have a familiar put to me, one that I am around, especially with the children running around and playing carefree. My grandmother is quite religious and she also does many of the things that the grandmother in the story does.

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