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In this story, Cisneros explains that she found it difficult to be seen in her family due to the fact that she was an only daughter. Cisneros saw how her father acted towards her brother and she wanted to be seen as important in his eyes as well but her father always diverted his attention to his sons. Her fathers neglect is what pushed her to write because she wanted to earn his approval. By the end of the story we see that Cisneros did not only become a published writer, she finally got the approval from her father which was the most amazing thing that could have happened to her.

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“Where can we get more copies of this for the relatives?” Of all the wonderful things that happened to me last year, that was the most wonderful.   

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“Where can we get more copies of this for the relatives?” Of all the wonderful things that happened to me last year, that was the most wonderful.   

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"My father represents, then, the public majority. A public who is disinterested in reading, and yet one whom I am writing about and for, and privately trying to woo"

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"My father represents, then, the public majority. A public who is disinterested in reading, and yet one whom I am writing about and for, and privately trying to woo"

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"Everything I have ever written has been for him, to win his approval" Cisneros wanted her father to acknowledge her and be proud of her

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"Everything I have ever written has been for him, to win his approval" Cisneros wanted her father to acknowledge her and be proud of her

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"I wanted him to interrupt. I wanted my father to understand what it was I was scribbling."

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"I wanted him to interrupt. I wanted my father to understand what it was I was scribbling."

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Only daughter in a family of six sons

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Cisneros wanted to go to university to get an education, but her father wanted her to go in hopes that she would find a husband

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Cisneros wanted to go to university to get an education, but her father wanted her to go in hopes that she would find a husband

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"Forced me by circumstance to spend a lot of time by myself because my brothers felt it beneath them to play with a girl in public"