Analysis and response to 8 of the stories in Sandra...

BREAD SANDRA CISNEROS I question whether these two people in the story are having an affair, back together after a divorce, or whatever? Something as simple as bread can lead to that answer. The bread is much like their relationship, actually exactly like it. We were hungry. We went into a Bakery on Grand Avenue and bought bread. Filled the backseat. The whole car smelled of bread. Big sourdough loaves shaped like a fat ass(Cisneros 84). It was an affair. They were lusting each other and finally have to give in and it is Grand, like the Avenue, it fills the backseat, and the whole car smells of it. Comparing the bread to an ass also takes on a sexual tone. We ripped big chunks with our hands and ate(Cisneros 84). They gorged†¦show more content†¦I mean seriously. This girl is pretty pathetic. It is even kind of funny. This guy has killed and raped eleven other girls. He is probably going to look like a psycho. He brings this young girl a cup of freaking Kool-Aid and she knows she loves him. It do es not get much worse than that. Even the title, One Holy Night, hardly holy I would think, gives off a mocking tone. Barbie - Q Sandra Cisneros This story seems to contain the theme that to those who wait good things will come. And maybe even, be grateful of what you have, for many others are much less fortunate than you. The story is being told to the reader, as if the reader were a character. That character either being a friend or sister of the narrator in a similar financial situation. They make the most of what they have and can afford. That being one Barbie doll and one extra outfit apiece. But on this Sunday they go to the flea market on Maxwell Street [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHMHFO5n6Cc] and there they were. Lying on the street next to some tool bits, and platform shoes with the heels all squashed, and a fluorescent green wicker wastebasket, and aluminum foil, and hubcaps, and a pink shag rug, and windshield wiper blades, and dusty mason jars, and a coffee can full of rusty nails. There! Where? Two Mattel boxes...How much? Please, please, please, please, please, please, please, until they say okay(Cisneros 15). This young girl is beyond excited. Shes spitting out all these things stammering