Question

my professor asked the class to interpret the theme of a passage

Answer 1

like write a report?

Answer 2

no, find the message in the poem i think...

Answer 3

Ok, what is the poem?

Answer 4

my name.
give me a sec and i will post it.

Answer 5

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“My Name”
Sandra Cisneros
In English my name means hope. In Spanish it means too many letters. It means
sadness, it means waiting. It is like the number nine. A muddy color. It is the Mexican
records my father plays on Sunday mornings when he is shaving, songs like sobbing.
It was my great-grandmother’s name and now it is mine. She was a horse woman
too, born like me in the Chinese year of the horse – which is supposed to be bad luck if
you’re born female – but I think this is a Chinese lie because the Chinese, like the
Mexicans, don’t like their women strong.
My great-grandmother. I would’ve liked to have known her, a wild horse of a
woman, so wild she wouldn’t marry. Until my great-grandfather threw a sack over her
head and carried her off. Just like that, as if she were a fancy chandelier. That’s the way
he did it.
And the story goes she never forgave him. She looked out the window her whole
life, the way so many women sit their sadness on an elbow. I wonder if she made the best
with what she got or was she sorry because she couldn’t be all the things she wanted to
be. Esperanza. I have inherited her name, but I don’t want to inherit her place by the
window.
At school they say my name funny as if the syllables were made out of tin and
hurt the roof of your mouth. But in Spanish my name is made out of a softer something,
like silver, not quite as thick as sister’s name – Magdalena – which is uglier than mine.
Magdalena who at least can come home and become Nenny. But I am always Esperanza.
I would like to baptize myself under a new name, a name more like the real me,
the one nobody sees. Esperanza as Lisandra or Maritza or Zeze the X. Yes. Something
like Zeze the X will do.

Answer 6

This is out of my range sorry...

Answer 7

thank you though

Answer 8

Well the theme is evident, it is about "my name", basically the theme is about the symbolic nature of a person's name. When people interpret a name its usually a distinction of people but as listed in the passage. A person's name is much more, it is the symbol of history that is passed through family as well as all the struggles one has been through in their lives. A name is connoted as a symbolic life story instead of a discrete distinguishable form of labeling people.

You get where I am going? The theme is the historical identity of a person.

Answer 9

I think the theme is about different ethnicities and how we are all one. How one person"s name shows how we all are very different and also very much the same.