Dialectical Journal(song of Cisneros) by Danielle Pena https://padlet.com/danielle_pena5678/klo3d4b332w2 en-us 2020-02-13 22:07:53 UTC 2025-11-12 00:24:39 UTC hello@padlet.com Theme Statement danielle_pena5678 https://padlet.com/danielle_pena5678/klo3d4b332w2/wish/445326655 Cisneros uses metaphors, similes, and connotations within the vignette "Born Bad" in order to emphasize the theme of feeling trapped and helpless within your own uncontrollable life.]]> 2020-02-13 22:09:58 UTC https://padlet.com/danielle_pena5678/klo3d4b332w2/wish/445326655 Evidence using literary devices danielle_pena5678 https://padlet.com/danielle_pena5678/klo3d4b332w2/wish/445327820 “a little piece of meat on an open shell for us to look at." (Cisneros 60).]]> 2020-02-13 22:13:19 UTC https://padlet.com/danielle_pena5678/klo3d4b332w2/wish/445327820 What is happening? danielle_pena5678 https://padlet.com/danielle_pena5678/klo3d4b332w2/wish/445328888 Esperanza is describing her late aunt's sickness.]]> 2020-02-13 22:15:32 UTC https://padlet.com/danielle_pena5678/klo3d4b332w2/wish/445328888 What theme/big idea is being conveyed by Cisneros? How does the use of literary devices help convey the theme? danielle_pena5678 https://padlet.com/danielle_pena5678/klo3d4b332w2/wish/445330027 Cisneros is conveying a theme of helplessness and being trapped. In the text it explains how Esperanza's aunt is feeling trapped within the confines of her own body as due to her illness she is unable to move and take care of her self.]]> 2020-02-13 22:19:04 UTC https://padlet.com/danielle_pena5678/klo3d4b332w2/wish/445330027 Evidence using literary devices danielle_pena5678 https://padlet.com/danielle_pena5678/klo3d4b332w2/wish/445331495 "Hard to imagine her legs... not bent and wrinkled like a baby, not drowning under the sticky yellow light." (Cisneros 59).]]> 2020-02-13 22:23:49 UTC https://padlet.com/danielle_pena5678/klo3d4b332w2/wish/445331495 What is happening? danielle_pena5678 https://padlet.com/danielle_pena5678/klo3d4b332w2/wish/445332141 Esperanza is depicting how her aunt once used to have strong and healthy legs which are now weak and unable to support her.]]> 2020-02-13 22:25:42 UTC https://padlet.com/danielle_pena5678/klo3d4b332w2/wish/445332141 What theme/big idea is being conveyed by Cisneros? How does the use of literary devices help convey the theme? danielle_pena5678 https://padlet.com/danielle_pena5678/klo3d4b332w2/wish/445332516 By adding the use of the word "drowning" Cisneros is using connotation to express to the reader a situation in which one is completely helpless, ever sinking into their inevitable demise with no hope of escape; completely trapped.]]> 2020-02-13 22:27:02 UTC https://padlet.com/danielle_pena5678/klo3d4b332w2/wish/445332516 23lgallagher04172 https://padlet.com/danielle_pena5678/klo3d4b332w2/wish/445332881 2020-02-13 22:28:24 UTC https://padlet.com/danielle_pena5678/klo3d4b332w2/wish/445332881 23lgallagher04172 https://padlet.com/danielle_pena5678/klo3d4b332w2/wish/445333188 2020-02-13 22:29:16 UTC https://padlet.com/danielle_pena5678/klo3d4b332w2/wish/445333188 Evidence using literary devices danielle_pena5678 https://padlet.com/danielle_pena5678/klo3d4b332w2/wish/445334170 "I want to be like the waves on the sea, like the clouds in the wind, but I'm me. One day i'll jump out of my skin. I'll shake the sky like a hundred violins." (Cisneros 60-61).]]> 2020-02-13 22:32:27 UTC https://padlet.com/danielle_pena5678/klo3d4b332w2/wish/445334170 What is happening? danielle_pena5678 https://padlet.com/danielle_pena5678/klo3d4b332w2/wish/445334914 Esperanza is reciting a poem she once read for her aunt.]]> 2020-02-13 22:34:50 UTC https://padlet.com/danielle_pena5678/klo3d4b332w2/wish/445334914 What theme/big idea is being conveyed by Cisneros? How does the use of literary devices help convey the theme? danielle_pena5678 https://padlet.com/danielle_pena5678/klo3d4b332w2/wish/445335166 In the text Esperanza's poem portrays the feeling of being trapped through the use of simile. In the poem she begins by by explaining how she wishes to be like many things - all of which free, open, flowing, forces but then says she cannot as she is just herself. By phrasing the poem in this manner it expresses to the reader how Esperanza believes she cannot be free and is instead trapped. Trapped in her own life, trapped on Mango street.]]> 2020-02-13 22:35:38 UTC https://padlet.com/danielle_pena5678/klo3d4b332w2/wish/445335166 Topics Discussed 23ootool53100 https://padlet.com/danielle_pena5678/klo3d4b332w2/wish/448359156 Weakness
Broken]]> 2020-02-20 22:44:31 UTC https://padlet.com/danielle_pena5678/klo3d4b332w2/wish/448359156 Topics Discussed 23sramirez51157 https://padlet.com/danielle_pena5678/klo3d4b332w2/wish/448359640 Hope
Ambition
Freedom]]> 2020-02-20 22:46:13 UTC https://padlet.com/danielle_pena5678/klo3d4b332w2/wish/448359640 Evidence using literary devices 23ootool53100 https://padlet.com/danielle_pena5678/klo3d4b332w2/wish/448376278 “There is a good Bugs Bunny cartoon on T.V. I know, I saw it before and recognize the music and wish I could go sit on the plastic couch with Ernie and the baby, but now my fortune begins.” (Cisneros 63)]]> 2020-02-20 23:50:49 UTC https://padlet.com/danielle_pena5678/klo3d4b332w2/wish/448376278 What is happening? 23ootool53100 https://padlet.com/danielle_pena5678/klo3d4b332w2/wish/448376558  Esperanza is going to get her fortune told, but instead she wishes to sit with Ernie and the baby and watch Bugs Bunny on T.V. because she finds it more entertaining and nostalgic. ]]> 2020-02-20 23:51:52 UTC https://padlet.com/danielle_pena5678/klo3d4b332w2/wish/448376558 What theme/big idea is being conveyed by Cisneros? How does the use of literary devices help convey the theme? 23ootool53100 https://padlet.com/danielle_pena5678/klo3d4b332w2/wish/448377149 In this quote Cisneros conveys the major theme of wanting to be someone your not. This is portrayed through the use of allusion. In the text Cisneros references "Bugs Bunny" a popular cartoon and by doing so allows the reader to further understand what she is writing about. This shows that she would rather be enjoying her childhood watching a cartoon rather than facing her fate at the hands of a fortune]]> 2020-02-20 23:53:58 UTC https://padlet.com/danielle_pena5678/klo3d4b332w2/wish/448377149 Topics Discussed 23ootool53100 https://padlet.com/danielle_pena5678/klo3d4b332w2/wish/448377234 Innocence
Envy]]> 2020-02-20 23:54:16 UTC https://padlet.com/danielle_pena5678/klo3d4b332w2/wish/448377234 Evidence using literary devices 23ootool53100 https://padlet.com/danielle_pena5678/klo3d4b332w2/wish/448377735 "Her T.V. is color and big and all her pretty furniture's made out of red fur like the teddy bears they give away in carnivals." (Cisneros 62)]]> 2020-02-20 23:55:50 UTC https://padlet.com/danielle_pena5678/klo3d4b332w2/wish/448377735 Evidence using literary devices 23ootool53100 https://padlet.com/danielle_pena5678/klo3d4b332w2/wish/448377821 "Ah, yes, a home in the heart. I see a home in the heart. 
Is that it?" (Cisneros 64)]]> 2020-02-20 23:56:10 UTC https://padlet.com/danielle_pena5678/klo3d4b332w2/wish/448377821 What is happening? 23ootool53100 https://padlet.com/danielle_pena5678/klo3d4b332w2/wish/448377885 As Esperanza goes to get her fortune told she describes the surrounding in Elenita's home to the reader.]]> 2020-02-20 23:56:28 UTC https://padlet.com/danielle_pena5678/klo3d4b332w2/wish/448377885 What is happening? 23ootool53100 https://padlet.com/danielle_pena5678/klo3d4b332w2/wish/448377910 As Esperanza gets her fortune told Elenita promises that there is "a home in the heart" in her future. This displeases Esperanza as she hopes for a literal home rater than a symbolic one.]]> 2020-02-20 23:56:34 UTC https://padlet.com/danielle_pena5678/klo3d4b332w2/wish/448377910 What theme/big idea is being conveyed by Cisneros? How does the use of literary devices help convey the theme? 23ootool53100 https://padlet.com/danielle_pena5678/klo3d4b332w2/wish/448378200 The theme being portrayed by this text is that of envy. This is conveyed by the connotation in the quote. Esperanza in the text first complements the T.V. and furniture in her description of the home. Then, by comparing the furniture to that of a teddy bear at a carnival she adds a positive connotation to the house. Carnivals and stuffed bears are associated with happiness and positivity so making this comparison shows how much Esperanza adores the house in comparison to her own. This shows that Esperanza is envious a life similar to that much more enjoyable and she would prefer to have a life like that.]]> 2020-02-20 23:57:41 UTC https://padlet.com/danielle_pena5678/klo3d4b332w2/wish/448378200 What theme/big idea is being conveyed by Cisneros? How does the use of literary devices help convey the theme? 23ootool53100 https://padlet.com/danielle_pena5678/klo3d4b332w2/wish/448378217 This text helps the reader to understand the theme of wishing to be different which is being made apparent through the use of metaphor. The quote uses the metaphor "a home in the heart" to explain what Elenita has foretold for Esperanza's future. Esperanza however, is aware that the metaphor is purely symbolic and as such is unpleased as she wished to be someone else; someone with a better life and a real house.]]> 2020-02-20 23:57:45 UTC https://padlet.com/danielle_pena5678/klo3d4b332w2/wish/448378217 Topics Discussed 23ootool53100 https://padlet.com/danielle_pena5678/klo3d4b332w2/wish/448378293 Favorability
Happiness
Innocence]]> 2020-02-20 23:57:59 UTC https://padlet.com/danielle_pena5678/klo3d4b332w2/wish/448378293 Topics Discussed 23ootool53100 https://padlet.com/danielle_pena5678/klo3d4b332w2/wish/448378319 Regret
Disappointment]]> 2020-02-20 23:58:04 UTC https://padlet.com/danielle_pena5678/klo3d4b332w2/wish/448378319 Born Bad 23ootool53100 https://padlet.com/danielle_pena5678/klo3d4b332w2/wish/448384689 2020-02-21 00:20:02 UTC https://padlet.com/danielle_pena5678/klo3d4b332w2/wish/448384689 Elenita, Cards, Palm, Water 23ootool53100 https://padlet.com/danielle_pena5678/klo3d4b332w2/wish/448384964 2020-02-21 00:20:58 UTC https://padlet.com/danielle_pena5678/klo3d4b332w2/wish/448384964 23ootool53100 https://padlet.com/danielle_pena5678/klo3d4b332w2/wish/448472020 2020-02-21 06:25:22 UTC https://padlet.com/danielle_pena5678/klo3d4b332w2/wish/448472020 23ootool53100 https://padlet.com/danielle_pena5678/klo3d4b332w2/wish/448476050 2020-02-21 06:54:28 UTC https://padlet.com/danielle_pena5678/klo3d4b332w2/wish/448476050 Theme Statement 23ootool53100 https://padlet.com/danielle_pena5678/klo3d4b332w2/wish/448476196 In the vignette "Elenita, Cards, Palm, Water" Cisneros expresses the theme of envy and wishing to be someone different through the use of connotation, metaphor, and allusion.]]> 2020-02-21 06:55:28 UTC https://padlet.com/danielle_pena5678/klo3d4b332w2/wish/448476196 Topics Discussed 23lgallagher04172 https://padlet.com/danielle_pena5678/klo3d4b332w2/wish/451720094 Illness
Vulnerability]]> 2020-02-27 22:41:19 UTC https://padlet.com/danielle_pena5678/klo3d4b332w2/wish/451720094