The House on Mango Street Cisneross Style :: House Mango Street

The House on mango Street Cisneross Style  Sandra Cisneross writing expression in the myth The House on Mango Street transc leftovers two genres, poetry and the short-change story. The novel is written in a series of poetic vignettes that trifle it easy to read. These distinguishing attributes are combined to create the backbone of Cisneross unique style and structure. The novel has confused m both critics and readers because it reads like poetry, yet in actuality it is a narrative. Cisneros admits that many of the vignettes are "lazy poems." This means that they could be poems if she had taken the meter to finish them (Olivares 145). At many times throughout the novel the delivery rhyme and can almost be be sick to a slippery tune. For prototype, the chapter "Geraldo No Last Name" reads like a poem with obliterate rhyme and a structured pattern. "Pretty too, and young. Said he worked in a restaurant, but she cant remember which one" (Cisne ros 65). At the other end of the spectrum, the novel is a series of vignettes. "I would affirm that, although some of the narratives of Mango Street are short stories, most are vignettes, that is, literary sketches, like small-scale illustrations nonetheless..." says critic Julian Olivares (145). Cisneros has stated that she wants a reader to be commensurate to pick up the novel and understand its meaning from any advert within therefore, the novel is told in a series of vignettes, each of which makes it throw point. The vignettes are combined to create a larger story (Olivares 145). "Chanclas" is an example of Cisneross sound prose vignettes. "Meanwhile that boy who is my cousin... asks me to dance and I cant" (Cisneros 47).This chapter is a literary sketch which illustrates Esperanzas insecurity about being poor. Mango Street isnt needfully structured in chronological order. There are no forceful nor specific changes in time. The reader understands that the character is growing up, but the subsisting structure can be rearranged without compromising the readers understanding. The chapters "Hips" ("They(hips) bloom like roses, I continue because its obvious Im the only one who can speak with any authority...") and "The First Job" ("So the next morning I put on the navy blue dress that made me look older.