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Never Marry A Mexican Analysis

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In the story “Never Marry a Mexican” Sandra Cisneros discusses the theme do not look for someone that can hurt you and be careful what you choose because it can damage you. Sandra Cisneros the author of the book Woman Hollering Creek and Clemencia the main character of the story” Never Marry a Mexican” teach us about culture in one way. I choose some main ideas that can relate to the story “ Never Marry a Mexican” one of the main ideas is love yourself for you. Another main idea is do not do what someone showed you and the last one is she was broken from the inside but didn't show it. My thesis statement is think before you act because what you choose determines what happens next. Clemencia the protagonist did not love herself for who she was. Clemencia, who is a Mexican American is straddling two different cultures. She feels like she doesn't belong in any social class. In the story Clemencia the protagonist stated that “ They've …show more content…

This can relate to the story “Never Marry a Mexican” in different ways. An evidence from the story the protagonist Clemencia said “That man she met at work, Owen Lambert the foreman at the photo-finishing plant who she was seeing while my father was sick”(73). In other words her mother plays a really big part in her life because of her mother's cheating on her father while her dad was bedridden and sick. This was Clemencias’s example at an early age that having an affair would be okay. Later in the story Clemencia and Drew who was the man she was having the affair with stop seeing each other and years past and Clemencia seduces the son of Drew . In the story she stated “All I know is I was sleeping with your father the night you were born, in the same bed you where you were conceived”(76). To rephrase she was now sleeping with Drew's son she thought it was okay because her mother had an affair with a white man while her dad was sick and she might of wanted

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