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The House on Mango Street

Chapter - Meme Ortiz

The author uses very SIMPLE but SIGNIFICANT words.

DICTION

such as:

- sheepdog

- untied

- garage

- twenty-one

About her writing

About?

Although these words are commonly known, she uses a lot of descriptive aspects in her writing and her sentences are a great representation of what she's trying to say.

Cisneros uses continues with a subject-verb syntax, but towards the end she moves to beginning with prepositions.

SYNTAX

Syntax Examples

  • Meme Ortiz moved into...
  • Meme has a dog with...
  • Cathy's father built...

Examples

  • Around the back yard, mostly dirt...
  • Down at the base of the tree, the dog with...
  • All round, the neighborhood...

Literary Devices

Imagery (including a simile)

LITERARY DEVICES

Personfication

"Out front there are twenty-one steps, all lopsided and jutting like crooked teeth..."

"this tree, huge, with fat arms"

Simile / Personification

Irony

Simile

"like a dog dressed in a man suit."

This is the tree we chose for the First Annual Tarzan Jumping Contest. Meme won. And broke both arms.

"...clumsy and wild and with the limbs flopping allover the place like untied shoes."

The significance of this chapter is:

SIGNIFICANCE

showing how Mexican American people have to be two in one.

Meme Ortiz

Meme

Meme's real name is Juan, but here, in America, he went by Meme. Two names for one person.

Meme's dog..

had to have a Spanish name and an American name. Two names for in one dog.

The Dog

They mentioned that the stairs...

Stairs

had twenty one steps. 2 and 1

There is a clear motif of the numbers 2 & 1.

Tying it all together

Which brings the question... will Meme have to act like two different people based on who he's around?

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