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Only Daughter by Sandra Cisneros
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The End
Character Motivation
Theme
Sandra's father believed that his daughter's destiny would lead her to become someone's wife because of his tradition.
''What I didn't realize was that my father thought college was good for girls- good for finding a husband.''
'' After four years in college and two more in graduate school and still no husband, my father shakes his head now and says I wasted all that education.''
''This is my only daughter. She teaches.'' Es maestra - teacher. Not even profesora.
Sometimes in life, you are rejected by the ones you love, but it may lead you on the path to success.
Because of her father's traditional ways, Sandra learns how to use her loneliness as a way to think more productively.
''Being an only daughter in a family of six sons forced me by circumstance to spend a lot of time by myself...''
''But that aloneness, that loneliness, was good for a would-be writer - it allowed me time to think and think, to imagine to read and prepare myself.''
I should have written: ''I am the only daughter in a Mexican family of six sons.'' Or even: I am the only daughter of a Mexican father and a Mexican -American mother. '' Or: I am the only daughter of a working-class family of nine. All of these had everything to do with who I am today.''
Figurative Language
''Or the fotonovelas, the little picture paperbacks with tragedy and trauma erupting from the character's mouths in bubbles.''
''Use this,'' my father said, tapping his head, ''and not this,'' showing us those hands.
''Pedro Infante was about to burst into song, and my father was laughing.''
Sandra Cisneros