Read the paragraph from a student’s literary essay comparing two different works. (1) sandra cisneros’s “mericans” is about a young american girl of mexican descent who is struggling to find her own cultural identity. (2) cisneros illustrates this through a number of images and ideas. (3) for example, the speaker, micaela, calls her grandmother “awful,” and seems to resent the woman’s strict views and religious ideals. (4) the speaker also mentions how she and her brother emulate characters from popular american television programs when they play make-believe. (5) lastly, she describes physically standing outside her family’s church, an act that symbolizes the fact that she feels like an outsider to mexican culture. (6) although micaela is of mexican descent, she seems to feel a stronger connection to the united states. this paragraph supports the idea that micaela

The essay illustrated supports the idea that she is struggling to find her own cultural identity.

Culture simply means the total way if life of people. it has to do with their lifestyles, food, art, etc.

In this case, Sandra Cisneros’s “Mericans” is about a young American girl of Mexican descent who is struggling to find her own cultural identity.

She is an outsider to the new culture.

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Wishes her heritage was different because she has difficulty relating to her grandmother.

Explanation:

Based on the excerpt from the essay "Mexicans" by Sandra Cisneros, it can be inferred that the speaker/ protagonist Micaela, is finding it hard to actually come to terms with the Mexican heritage of her grandmother. She feels more like an outsider, even though she is also from the same Mexican blood. Her grandmother's Mexican identity seems different from the Mexican identity she was used to. The passage seems to support the idea that Micaela wishes her heritage was different because she has difficulty relating to her grandmother.

a complex sentence consists of an independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.  

to write complex sentences, we must use subordinating conjunctions.  

all the complex sentences begin with a subordinating conjunction and when it occurs, a comma must be place at the end of the dependent clause. on the contrary, if the sentence begins with an independent clause, then no comma is used.

after  

although  

as  

because  

before  

if  

since  

when  

for example,  

after she won the competition, she became very popular.  

although my father was hurt, he continued fighting for his rights.  

as all of you got a ten, you will be able to leave early today.  

before he went to the war, he asked his parents to bless him.  

if it is cold, i won’t go out.  

since you didn’t bring the homework, you will get low grades.  

when it is hot in the town, everyone goes to the beach.