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Theme- "There Was an Old Woman She Had So Many Children She Didn't Know What to Do"

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Theme- "There Was an Old Woman She Had So Many Children She Didn't Know What to Do"

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Cisneros' uses similes, euphemisms, and idioms within the vignette "There Was an Old Woman..." in order to illustrate the theme of people having individuality, and how people's personality's are based off of their parents, and their life experiences.
Literary device
The literary devices used are represented throughout the text. One example is a simile, "dropped from the sky like a sugar donut"(Cisneros 30). This exemplifies the falling child, and the innocence of a child that was harmed due to the recklessness of others' actions.

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Evidence for "There Was an Old Woman..."

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Evidence for "There Was an Old Woman..."

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"They are bad those Vargases, and how can they help it with only one mother who is tired all the time" (Cisneros 29). This represents the direct effect of the mother's actions that have caused the kids to rebel. Esperanza notices the kids wildness that is an effect of the way the mother acts.

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Topics for There was an Old Woman She Had So many Children She Didn't Know What To Do"

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Topics for There was an Old Woman She Had So many Children She Didn't Know What To Do"

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Some topics I found in this vignette were that it gives some insight to those who were abandoned and not as privileged as us because Rosa Vargas is a single mother left to care for all her children she doesn't even know what to do with and she's tired of everything and can't teach her children respect, manners, and common sense. For example, on page 29, it states, "The kids bend trees and bounce between cars and dangle upside down from knees," any kid would know not to do any of this if they were parented correctly but since the Vargas kids were not parented, they don't know right from wrong.

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Cisneros uses tone, point of view, and similes within the vignette "Those Who Don't" in order to emphasize the theme that Esperanza will always be considered The Other because of her ethnicity and gender.
Literary device
One example of a literary device is point of view. The words, we, and they, are often used. This is representing the two different sides. Esperanza's side is portrayed as dangerous, and the other side is seen as "proper", or prejudiced. Esperanza's side is unified, because of the constant use of "we."

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"All brown all around, we are safe. But watch us drive into a neighborhood of another color and our knees shakity-shake and our car windows get rolled up tight and our eyes look straight." (Cisneros 28) The evidence displays the alienation that Esperanza and her neighbors feel because of outsiders seeing them as dangerous or less than others.

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Topics found in this vignette are stereotypes and assuming without knowing. This vignette talks about how people that don't know Esperanza's neighborhood won't go in it because they think it is a bad neighborhood with dangerous people just because of what it looks like. But, all the people in the neighborhood are kind people and have many kids in the neighborhood. The vignette talks about how all the people in the neighborhood are "brown" so when people see them they see the stereotypical "dangerous poor neighborhood" for people of Mexican decent. Esperanza just wants people to understand that they aren't what the people on the outside think.