Summary Of Salvador Late Or Early

In the story “Salvador, Late or Early” written by Sandra Cisneros, a young boy named Salvador is living in poverty and it is about how he handles living in these harsh conditions and how he helps his brothers through it. The author uses imagery to show that Salvador acts like a savior to his brothers and people around him and no one ever notices all the good acts that he does for everyone.
Cisneros uses imagery to display how Salvador acts towards his family and other people in his life. In the story his brother, Arturito, drops a box of crayons that is stored in a cigar box. Colors just go flying onto the ground in front of all the traffic. Instead of getting mad at his little brother, Salvador just apologizes and picks all the crayons up. “Salvador inside that wrinkled shirt, inside the throat that must clear itself and

He helps his family everyday but his mother doesn’t even notice what he does. “Helps his mama, who is busy with the business of the baby.” Even though he helps his mom everyday with the chores of the family she never even notices because she is always busy with something else. That isn’t the only person who doesn’t notice him his teacher doesn’t remember his name and he has no friends because students don’t even notice him at school. These actions don’t even bother him because of all the pain he already been through in his past. “Grows small and smaller to the eye, dissolves into the bright horizon, flutters in the air before disappearing like a memory of kites.” The author is trying to state that nobody notices Salvador and just forgets him. Although someone could have cared about him at one point in his life, now they don’t even care about him and don’t notice him at all. Even though many people don’t care about Salvador, he still cares about everyone and helps them every single