American Author

American Author Proposal

The author I will be doing my American author will be Sandra Cisneros. I want to read her books because I’ve heard that she is a very good writer. Many people have told me that her book House On Mango Street is very good so that’s the one I’m really interested in reading. Another thing that draws me to this author is that she is Latina so that’s very important to me. It also seems like she writes from her past experiences, and her parents were not born here and she was we that in common.

I could use this author’s work and use it in my ten-page paper because my thesis could be the influence of Latino authors and what they bring to the table. Make it based on them bringing a different kind of gender to the basic American literature. My thesis could also talk about how many authors talk about their childhood or past experiences. At the moment I’m not really clear about what exactly I would want to base my thesis but maybe as I read her books I will get some more ideas.

Sandra Cisneros to me meets the requirements of an “American” author in many ways one of them being that she was born in the United States. Another reason is that she writes in English, and has received many awards for her outstanding writing. Something that also symbolizes that she is an American author is that she has paved the way for many other writers that are from other ethnicities other then white. She has shown that it is possible to come from immigrant parents and still be considered an American author. Her wanting to show people how it feels to grow up in a country where your parents were not born and you having to live here but having to still keep your cultures traditions is hard. That ‘s what an “American” author is to me.

At this point the books I’m interested in reading are, well I’m really interested in reading all her books but my top 3 choices are House On Mango Street, Loose Women, and My Wicked Wicked Ways. These books are my top 3 choices because they are the ones that caught my eye the most. I really want to read House On Mango Street because I’ve heard it was good and it was giving a very good review on the websites I’ve being looking at. I started to read it a couple of years ago but unfortunately couldn’t finish it. The other two books I had never heard about but of all her other books they seem more interesting to read. Like Loose Women is a book of poems that talk about women and what they go through and all the experiences both good and bad that women have go through. Well its obvious I want to read this book because I’m a girl so it catches my attention. I’m also pretty drawn to poems because they are simple but go to a big statement. Last but not least I want to read My Wicked Wicked Ways, this is my last choice because it was a book that kind off caught my attention but not really but who knows it might be a good book.

My order to read these books is going to be House On Mango Street, Loose Women, and finally My Wicked Wicked Ways. I choose this order because the first two books are the books I really want to read, then the last one is more like an experiment because I had never heard of it and it’s not really of my interest but hopefully by the end of the book I will be impressed or if not I might want to change it if I think it’s boring.