Read and annotate Sandra Cisneros' introduction to The House on Mango Street. It is called "A House of My Own." After reading, for your Part 1 response, answer ONE of the following questions:
For your Part 2 response, comment on at least two other posts.
- Briefly describe the neighborhood where Cisneros taught. Why don’t the landlords and the city take responsibility? Consider specifically p. xviii.
- What is the difference between what Cisneros’ father wants for her life versus that which her mother wants for her life? Why were there these differences and how might this have affected Cisneros?
- Would you be friends with a person like Sandra Cisneros? Why or why not? Provide a couple of examples from the introduction.
For your Part 2 response, comment on at least two other posts.
1) In the neighborhood where Cisneros taught the Landlords and the city take no responsibility for the rats, trash that is not collected ofeten, porches collapse, appartments without fire escapes.
ReplyDeleteYou're right, Goffredo, but you need to expand! Why don't they take responsibility?
DeleteThey do not take responsibilty because it is a poor neighborhood, so there are not efficient pubblic services such as the garbage collection, and building are not checked if they match security standards, such as the fire escapes and porches collapse. There probably is also a very poor hygene hence there are rats.
DeleteReally good response to the question but too much general. Talk more about Cisneros neighborhood and what if it's right that the city and landlords act in that way.
DeleteVery good introduction Goffredo.Thoe you could have written more about the neighborhood. Overall the development of the ideas was satisfying.
DeleteGreat start my friend, but I would like to precise a thing or two. First of all it would have given a better impact if you described the situation in from the neighbor's point of view. Secondly, you could have linked the horrible situation the LandLords created to the reason for which Sandra Cisneros hoped to live alone with no preoccupations.
DeleteThe neighborhood were Cisneros taught was in his mother's old neighborhood on Chicago's south side. It was a Mexican Neighborhood called Pilsen. The landlords and the city took no responsibility on this neighborhood because they considered Mexicans the lower class of society. Cisneros said that the landlords and city didn't bother and took no responsibility for the rats. The trash wasn't collected often enought, porches collapsed, and their wasn't fire escapes. Cisneros explains that the city didn't care until a tragedy happened and at that point they started investigations for a while and go on util, the next tragedy and so on so on.
ReplyDeleteFranco, remember Cisneros is a woman! (you wrote "his mother's old neighborhood)
DeleteFranco, you wrote a very good introduction and even a satisfying development of ideas about Cisnero's neighborhood, thoe I would have written something more about what happened after the tragedy.
DeleteGood description of the atmosphere Franco. I liked much how you gave clear examples, but you should have written more about what the neighborhood thought. In addition you could have told us more about the tragedy that occurred.
DeleteSincerely talking, I think a friendship between me and Sandra Cisneros is very difficult. This because I don't like to write and especially to stay on my own, while she just wanted her queit office. This particularities indirectly tells me a lot of her character, which is not similiar to mine. Therefore in my opinion I would not be friend with Sandra Cisneros
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ReplyDeleteSandra Cisneros used to teach at a school in Pilsen, her mother's old neighborhood on Chicago's south side, a Mexican neighborhood where the rent doesn't cost a lot and too many families live crowded together. Landlords and the city take no responsibility for several issues sucha as: the rats, even the trash that isn't collected often enough, porches that collapse, apartments without fire escapes, until the end unfortunately several people die. Then they will do several investigations for a while, but the problems will go on until the next death. I think the landlords didn't take responsibility because this issues reguarded a poor and dirty side of the city that wasn't important for them.
Why wasn't it important for the landlords?
DeleteBrando your answer to the first question is right but you have to talk more about the side of the city and why the landlords didn't take part in it. Really good the response of the city and why it doesn't take it's reponsibilities.
DeleteExplained very well. Although you didn't talk a lot about the landlords who have an important role in a community and their not taking responsibility shows alot of things.
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