Friday, March 25, 2011
I think that Sandra Cisneros book The House on Mango Street is her dedication, or going back to her old House on Mango street. She writes in the last Vignette of her book Throughout the book this character Esperanza travels a lot and lives in many houses, well not in the book. But before Esperanza comes to the house on Mango street; she hoped that when she came to that house it would be her house. Esperanza imagined the House on Mango street being that grand house; but it wasn’t.
Throughout the book she goes through A bunch of stuff that really carves out who Esperanza is, she has her first kiss, she learns about boys, she gains her friends, and most of all she realizes who she is as a person and what she wants to do in life. Esperanza does not like Mango street, and nothing that it brings with it.
So when she’s leaving in the last Vignette she said her own little goodbye to Mango Street .First she went to a fortune teller to try and fight what her future brings and she asked the fortune teller one thing Will I leave mango street? and when she asked this question she said it in her head, not out loud and the response to her question or the fortune tellers message was "when you leave you must remember to come back for the others" (page 105). That’s when Esperanza had her upbringing that she had to come back to Mango street.
“They will not know I have gone away to Come back. For the ones I left behind. For the ones who cannot out” (page 110). I think that Sandra cisneros book the House on Mango street is her coming back to mango, this is her dedication letter to mango. When you really think about it there both from Chicago, in the beginning Esperanza said she wishes she had a different name; maybe she changed it to Sandra Cisneros, and on top of that there’s this constant quote between writers, write what you know; Sandra Cisneros Knows House on Mango street. This is her coming back to the girls or people who couldn’t go to Mango.Sandra Cisneros is Esperanza.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
“Everybody dies but not everybody lives”, Nicki Minaj featuring Drake’ Moment for Life
0 comments Posted by Ale'ah Bashir-Baaqee at 10:02 AMTable of Contents
1. I love my Name!
2. The Bird’s Nest
3. Escalators, and Casinos
4. Squirrel
5. Nikes
I love my name!
My name is gorgeous I just think that it’s amazing, I don’t mean to sound cocky but my middle name could be the name of like a restaurant “Hi, welcome to Neyyerah’s”. My name in Arabic Ale’ah means Peace, Joy, and Hope. I think that I live up to two of those standards I think that I have a lot of Hope, and I strive for things, and I think that I’m Joyful; I guess.But I know I’m not Peaceful, I’m very violent like the time when I went off on my math teacher, like a lion pouncing on his prey, or the time I scratched my boyfriends face on accident, and he got a scar like Scar from The Lion King, for like the rest of the year he had this deep cut, it was thick enough to hold a penny, after that I tried stop being violent and being peaceful; but I guess I’m not the most peaceful person. That’s right my name Go!, and everybody is going to know who Ale’ah Neyyerah Bashir-Baaqee is.
Squirrel
I look like a squirrel, and I know it. So I don’t really care when people call me a squirrel because I ‘m very used to being called Squirrel. When I was little I used to play with fire, I liked playing with fire like dogs like playing with bones, I was attached, once I was in the bathroom trying to warm up some water in a plastic bottle, and I was holding the bottle with a napkin, and the napkin caught on fire and I made a big mess, and when my grandma found out she was so appalled.All the times that there was a fire lit I would come and blow it out. It was me but my grandma thought that it was her adoptive son Herald. Ever since than my grandma called me a squirrel and a fire Bug. Last year I went to a new school, and the first nickname I got was squirrel, at first I didn’t understand why I was being called squirrel, and I didn’t like it but I got used to it.
Purple were calling me Squirrel cuase’ I look like a squirrel
In the last month of school me and all my friends Nokono, crazy Zaleigha,and Aziza were all sitting in class when my new math teacher was teaching; and she heard some dogs bark; and then she started this story about the movie Up, then she said in the movie Up the dogs yell squirrel! And every looked at me when she said Squirrel! Everyone in the class laughed and so did I and ever since then I don’t mind if people call me Squirrel!
Escalators and Casinos
The sky walks quicker, that is what the old bearded man said to my grandma, sister, and I when we standing at light for over 2 minutes.How we get to the sky-walk, my grandma said.
The bearded man replied go up those stairs, he pointed, then through the upstairs sushi bar and casino and down the escalators then you will be in the Atlantis hotel.
‘Nyah, Leah hurry up we have to go if we want to be awake to go skiing. So that's what we did we rushed upstairs with our four bags of stuffed animals straight from Circus Circus in the great city of Reno, Nevada.
Therefore, we went up the cold concrete stairs that smelled of rotten urine, through the cigarette-covered alcohol smelling sushi and right around the bright pink and green upstairs Mini-Casino.
Then we saw it. What looked like an ordinary transportation device wasn’t a simple transportation device. It was full of death, pain, and screams, and anything else you could think of that is bad.
Then, we went down and everything was normal, until it snuck out and grabbed me. It was so quick I could not believe it. It grabbed me and it held me and it wouldn’t let me go; I stayed up there and I couldn’t get down. But the Escalator of death was trying to bring me down but the nail had me, it had my shoelace more specifically it had my ankle; and I was stuck
But that’s when Everyone on the escalator flew. They flew to my rescue people I had never even seen came to my rescue and then we all flew. That thing, that nail had no choose but to let me go, and give my ankle back. Yeah I learned and lived that day; I learned that when we are in need no matter what people size, shape height, color, anything: it doesn’t matter people will always help you.
The Birds Nest
That is what they called it and that is what it looked like, a birds nest. I’d seen one before in a tree at my home, with little hummingbirds flying in and out of it every year; but this one was different. It was big silver bright, glowing. Anything you can imagine that is what it was.Most of all it was amazing. Spectacular even. I wanted to be in the birds nest. But only the best of the best could have ran track in the Birds Nest stadium in Beijing, China. Only the rich could buy a ticket to see these track runners perform, and only the lucky like me could see it. But when I saw it it was amazing. But then again I was in the amazing city of Beijing, China; and I was there to dance.
That’s right dance in the Chinese festival of international dance I was, invited me and my dance company of the African Queens to perform. The only African dance troupe there. And me I was there living the life, walking the great wall, dancing in amusement parks, living in five star hotels. Opening pearls, and looking at Jade. Oh and don’t forget shopping at one of the biggest malls in the world. That is right; and walking the forbidden city; that’s right I lived and learned life is short so do it right and do it big.
Shoes
I love shoes, and shoes love me. I have a bunch of shoes Nike's, Jordan's, Air-Nike's, Boots, flats, Uggs, converse, and anything else. My favorite shoes are tennis shoes I can rock with anything else. I love matching I’m always matching so I need enough shoes that I can rock with anything else. My shoes are like my veins, I need my shoes with ought them I'm dead.My shoes are my world.
Friday, March 11, 2011
The House on Mango Street: Symbolism: Kisses/Lips
0 comments Posted by Ale'ah Bashir-Baaqee at 10:28 PMI
n the book house on mango street there are a lot of symbols using the same words to describe these symbols. Certain words come up more than others such as Falling, Trees, Red/Pink, Blue, Yellow, Rats/Mice, Clouds/Sky, and Kisses/Lips. In this particular blog posts I'm going to focus on the symbolism Cisneros shows with her Kisses/Lips.
We know so far that Cisneros main character is very Insecure about herself especially sexually. Early on the book a bunch of boys get moved into the neighborhood, and that’s somewhat when Esperanza kinda gets confused about where she stands with boys. The weird thing is in the beginning I understand why she’s afraid of kissing because she’s a little girl.
But later on in the book even though Cisneros doesn’t make it completely clear I’m pretty sure that Esperanza is fifteen when this specific Incident happens:
“ Your son and his friends took sally keys, and now they wont give them back unless she kisses them...What do you want me to do, she said call the cops?”
Right before this quote Esperanza went jetting down the street from the monkey garden to go tell Tito’s mom (Tito is the boy forcing sally to kiss him), and when she went back to the monkey garden she tried to get Tito and the boys not kiss sally by using a brick but they all looked at her like she was crazy; and she left embarrassed and by this time I’m pretty sure she had to be fifteen.
But it’s ironic that before that she was dreaming of kissing Sire “Sire. How did you hold her? Was it? Like this? And when you kissed her? Like this?” Before this quote Esperanza the narrator talks about how when she started living on Mango street a gut named Sire would stare at her, and talk about her admirably. So later on she has a dream of Sire kissing her and admiring her even more.
In the last quote “he grabs my face with both hands and kisses me hard on the mouth and doesn’t let go.” In this quote Esperanza just got her first job and a old man continuously kissed her. Esperanza already has this really bad experience with men and kissing, and not it’s just made worse.
n the book house on mango street there are a lot of symbols using the same words to describe these symbols. Certain words come up more than others such as Falling, Trees, Red/Pink, Blue, Yellow, Rats/Mice, Clouds/Sky, and Kisses/Lips. In this particular blog posts I'm going to focus on the symbolism Cisneros shows with her Kisses/Lips.We know so far that Cisneros main character is very Insecure about herself especially sexually. Early on the book a bunch of boys get moved into the neighborhood, and that’s somewhat when Esperanza kinda gets confused about where she stands with boys. The weird thing is in the beginning I understand why she’s afraid of kissing because she’s a little girl.
But later on in the book even though Cisneros doesn’t make it completely clear I’m pretty sure that Esperanza is fifteen when this specific Incident happens:
“ Your son and his friends took sally keys, and now they wont give them back unless she kisses them...What do you want me to do, she said call the cops?”
Right before this quote Esperanza went jetting down the street from the monkey garden to go tell Tito’s mom (Tito is the boy forcing sally to kiss him), and when she went back to the monkey garden she tried to get Tito and the boys not kiss sally by using a brick but they all looked at her like she was crazy; and she left embarrassed and by this time I’m pretty sure she had to be fifteen.
But it’s ironic that before that she was dreaming of kissing Sire “Sire. How did you hold her? Was it? Like this? And when you kissed her? Like this?” Before this quote Esperanza the narrator talks about how when she started living on Mango street a gut named Sire would stare at her, and talk about her admirably. So later on she has a dream of Sire kissing her and admiring her even more.
In the last quote “he grabs my face with both hands and kisses me hard on the mouth and doesn’t let go.” In this quote Esperanza just got her first job and a old man continuously kissed her. Esperanza already has this really bad experience with men and kissing, and not it’s just made worse.
Friday, March 4, 2011
In the book House on Mango Street the author Sandra Cisneros writes this book in the case of Vignette’s. Vignette’s are like short story’s empasizing a certain point. In the Vignette’s My Name, No Speak English, Sally, and Raphael Who Drinks Papaya Juice on Tuesday all have something to do with Windows and the symbolic presence they represent in Esperanza (The main characters) life.
In the Vignette My Name the quote "She looked out the window" (pg.11) is representing that Esperanza “She” is the one looking out the window. In a lot of stories the representations of women sitting in the window is usually women looking for a way out. It’s kinda sad that women post up a chair by the window and hope for more. It’s kinda like when women are looking out of windows there dreaming but what there dreaming off is never going to come.
In No Speak English, they represent this by the quote "She sits all day by the window, and plays all the radio shows"(pg.77). Women who have lost their way or are confused, hurt, betrayed, etc. Sit by windows There somewhat of a looking glass of what there life could have been; if blah blah hadn’t happened to them.
Women who sit by the window really look at people and observe other’s lives and comment on every single thing that’s going. Either it is like they will sit by the window depressed/sad or over nosey. Raphael who drinks Papaya juice on Tuesday “And then Raphaela who is still young but is getting old from leaning out the window too much”, (pg 79). See a little bit after this quote the narrator (Esperanza) says how the Raphael locked Raphaela in her room because she was so pretty. Was does this do to a females’ self esteem-it makes her want to sit by the window.
For example Sally “and if you open the little window latch and Gage it a shove the window would swing open and all the sky would come in”, (pg.82). This is kinda like a metaphor that can help Esperanza’s self confidence if you open up the window’s and experience the world then you can better live.
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