Identify the point of view of the story. Do you think the narrator is maleor female? What details lead you to that conclusion?

What will be an ideal response?


Cisneros presents her material through the eyes and the sensibility of a very young first-person narrator; everything in the text is limited to her perspective. Ask your students whether the narrator is male or female, and they will no doubt automatically assume the latter because the author is a woman; then ask them what details in the story “prove” the point (the narrator shares a bedroom with Nenny [end of paragraph 5], who is “my sister” [end of paragraph 1]).

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