Mericans :: World Literature Sandra Cisneros

In the short baloney Mericans by Sandra Cisneros, we appear to be reading about a small touch in Mexico. The author uses legion(predicate) details in the story for us to take in the heathen environment. The mix of Spanish words in the story such as, La Virgen de Guadalupe and la ofrenda give the sense of a incompatible gloss. The use of the awful grannie kneeling at mass imprints you visualize a specific heritage and cultural behavior. The word barbarian that the grandmother uses to describe the birthplace of the children, also points out cultural differences. It seems the author is hard to make us sense a native elaboration, and not to make assumptions based on physical characters. The awful grandmother (Cisneros p.30) is an example of a person in the story living in two cultural worlds, while she clings to her cultural heritage, she still doesnt want to accept the American culture of the children. The children, in the story, may look like Native Americans or Mexicans, onl y their main language is English. The children also use examples of American culture with the humourous characters, Flash Gordon and Ming the Merciless. The children in the story embrace more of the American culture than a native culture with the use of the comic characters. The little daughter tends to struggle understanding her grandmothers cultural heritage, and it seems to take her quite a act of effort doing it. The children seem to be content playing and carrying on without the botheration of what the grandmother is doing, and they have no references to heroes of their native culture.The story tends to have a familiar setting to me, one that I am around, especially with the children speed around and playing carefree. My grandmother is quite religious and she also does many of the things that the grandmother in the story does.