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Sandra Cisneros is a very successful Latina author in today’s literary world. She is one of a few accomplished Mexican-American female writers who is recognized in the mainstream. As stated in the New York Times, “Cisneros is ‘one of only a handful of Latina writers to make it big on the American scene.’” She was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1954, which happens to be one of the large centers of the Mexican-American community. Cisneros’ father was Mexican and her mother was Mexican-American. She grew up with both the English and Spanish language used in her home. She was also raised with a mix of Mexican and American ways of life. Cisneros’ writing is influenced heavily by her upbringing and so she often writes about being considered an outsider and a minority in America. Cisneros appears to want to “motivate” readers to make the world a better place. She was motivated in college to write based on her own unique background when she realized that a majority of her classmates had no understanding of her world and therefore her writing. Their upbringings created totally different writing styles and inspired Cisneros to write about her real- life experiences with adve