Only Daughter By Cisneros : Purpose And Audience

Purpose and Audience

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It is normal for Cisneros, as being a mexican daughter t to use many Spanish words in her writing as per needed. Spanish being her first language is sure to be portrayed in her writtings and we can see a lot of those types of words. Those words are usually explained or defined in English again because her readers are not Spanish readers only and she has become an international writter. So in order to make her writing meaninfful she uses Spanish words and too make her writing clear to understand and meaningful she again explains the Spanish words.

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Cisneros essays are generally social type of issue based essays. In the essay Only Daughter the same items can be seen. The essay is composed of her feelings of being the only daughter in family of six sons. Incidents of her childhood, conversation with parents, loneliness, conservative thoughts of her parents are major incidents mentioned in her essay. Her main thesis is Gender Inequality which is backed by those incidents and her writing.

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Her father, although being a conservative Mexican father, allowed her to attend college and encouraged her in her writtings. He never neglected her in  her moments of life. He was a different dad as compared to other mexican dads of her times where gender inequality prevailed. So her father was always sympathetic rather than being unsympathetic.