” As the chapters advance in the story Esperanza matures and talks about being a teenager. I wanted stories like poems, compact and lyrical and ending with a reverberation. Or that could be read in a series to tell one big story. I liked how he could fit so much into a page and that the last line of each story was important to the whole in much the same way that the final lines in poems resonate.Įxcept I wanted to write a collection which could be read at any random point without having any knowledge of what came before or after. I was greatly impressed by Jorge Luis Borges’ Dream Tigers stories for their form. That’s when I decided I would write about something my classmates couldn’t write about” In a Interview Sandra says “I recall I wanted to write stories that were a cross between poetry and fiction. But, I didn’t think it had anything to do with why I felt so much imbalance in my life, whereas it had everything to do with it! My race, my gender, and my class!Īnd it didn’t make any sense until that moment, sitting in that seminar. “ It wasn’t as if I didn’t know who I was. In the writers workshop she felt weird and strange being a Mexican-American women surrounded by people who were from very different and rich backgrounds. After graduating a teacher enrolled Cisneros in Iowa Writer’s Workshop.

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