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Why Is Sandra Cisneros Important To Me

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Attending the Sandra Cisneros reading was a very pivotal moment for me. The closer I get to graduation, the more I think about what Im going to do with my life. Her speech motivated me in so many ways. What hit home for me the most is when she spoke about the loss of her father. She talked about how writing about her father was hard for her. She also talked about how she got over it by using her work as a way to pay her respects to him. She used her thoughts and memories from young to put her all into writing about her father in her book. I teared up a little hearing her read from her book and also explain her thoughts on writing about her father and her family. My mom died last year and I often have thoughts about writing a book or piece dedicated to her. I think about what I would write and how …show more content…

I also think about the possibility of getting to overwhelmed that I stop all together. While I have these thoughts, I also have the thought of how proud my mom would have been of me. Ever since I was a child, I always liked to write. I would write short stories and poems that I would then show to my mom. She would praise me and tell me that I would be able to write whatever I wanted. As I got older, I started to focus more on science being that my High School had concentrations for students interested in the medical field. I followed this false dream until I got into my sophomore year of college. This is when I made the choice of changing my major from Health Science to English. When I came home and explained to my mom about my plans, her first words were “I always thought you would either be into English or Journalism because you always loved to write.” This made me feel so good about my decision because it made me feel that she

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