Personification is not as readily used by Cisneros in
The House on Mango Street--there are many more examples of simile
and metaphor. However, there are some key examples of personification. In the vignette
titled "Born Bad," Esperanza explores religious guilt and her belief that she will go to
hell. Her mother has told her that the family will have to pay for their sins against
their Aunt Lupe. Her aunt became sick with a terminal illness, and Esperanza uses
personification to characterize the disease and the time before her aunt's
death:
"Maybe
the sky didn't look the day she fell down.""But I think
diseases have no eyes. They pick with a dizzy finger anyone, just
anyone."
These examples
suggest that Esperanza feels like her aunt's disease had a mind of its own and that
there was no reason why it should have been her aunt to get sick. Esperanza explores
the unfair, random nature of fate and how it has affected both her and her
family.
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