Claudia cisneros and alice walker

”Only Daughter” by Claudia Cisneros and “Beauty” by Alice Walker are two very similar stories. Both of them are about accomplishments of women in times where women were less than men and only good to become a housewife. Both stories are autobiographies and have to do with women and the relationship with their parents specially their father. Although both authors are from different ethnicities the bumps they found in their way were most of the times because of social standard ideas.

Sandra Cisneros was the only daughter of 7 kids. The macho ideas of her Mexican father didn’t help her at all. He wanted her to be a housewife; of course Sandra wanted something a lot better for her. Since Sandra wasn’t allowed to play with her brothers she spent a lot of her time alone, writing poems and short stories. All of her writing was dedicated to her father. Sandra tho

The main issue of Sandra was that she wanted to please her father, and that he never accepted anything she did for him. Alice had a self-stem problem; she didn’t accept herself for what she had on the inside. She had been taught since she was a little girl that beauty was the only way to get everything she wanted. Sandra’s issue was an external problem; because she did everything she could to please her father. Alice issue was internal because everything that is going on is inside her head, she is afraid of rejection of people making fun of her.

ught that even though her father couldn’t read English, he would feel proud of her because of her being a writer. Sandra grew up and became a teacher but that didn’t satisfy her father either. He was happy with his son graduated from the medical school his lifetime dream became true, a son with education not have to be a blue-collar worker. But Sandra’s hard work paid off and

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