Sandra Cisneros: Only Daughter

 In the Excrept of Only Daughter by Sandra Cisneros, the author describes the obstacles of expectaion she overcame; being part of a mexican american working class family. She introduces the ideologic role of a woman in a mexican american family as a person who's sole purpose is to find a husband. She then details how lonesome it is to be part of a family with 6 brothers. She explains how her father would often reffer to his children as 7 sons, instead of 6 sons and 1 daughter. She comments on how this would make her feel invisible as part of the 6 male syblings. However, she soon realizes that through this isolation and expectation of finding a husband that she is free to explore all the awaiting pleasures that college holds without any criticism or urging to succeed academically. It is through this pressureless perspective that she develops her passion for writing. She explains how the isolation provided by her family would later on prove to be great  for a would-be writer. She goes on to explain "the loneliness was good for a would-be writer-it allowed me to think and think, to imagine, to read and prepare myself".Ultimately the time provided for her as a child allowed her to identify her passion, and going to college without any kind of pressure to succeed in her studies led her to experience and develop her identified passion for writing.

My reflection on the excrept of Only Daughter by Sandra Cisneros has led me to much insight on certain morals about family's with morals. In addition to that I learned of the significance of isolation. I came to understand that family's with expectations for their children can often be misleading for their children and could potentially supress a developing childs talents for their passion. Although nothing like this occured in the excrept, I was able to understand that the writer was lucky enough to stumble upon such a perspective that led her to succeed in her career as a writer. But just as lucky as she was to find that mind set, others can be just as unlucky and could be forced into careers; or even roles in life that they would not prefer, ultimately leading to a regretful life. My understanding of isolation in this excrept is that when one is isolated, one is free or cut back from the surrounding influences around them. In turn this freedom and lack of surrounding influence can lead one to dive deep into a better and higher understanding of themselves, without having to focus on other peoples oppinions or actions. The excrept's thesis of people overcoming the obstacles of expectation was well supported. It was supported through multiple paragraphs that made refrences to the authors father whom was the leading figure head of the thesis. He thought of her daughter as somebody that should focus more on finding a husband rather than a career. This supports her thesis by introducing the conflict of her fathers expectations, and her own will of succeeding as an individual writer. Also Sandra Cisneros supports her thesis by concluding the overcoming of the obstacles of expectation by mentioning how her father supported her first translated book by saying "where can we get more copies of this for the relatives?". There were also many other supporting sentences and paragraphs that she used to detail her success of overcoming the expectations of her father. All togther is was a strongly supported and structured excrept with valid points of reason.