Wednesday, January 29, 2014

In The House on Mango Street, what is one stylistic device used in the chapter "Hairs"?

This incredible novel is full of small vignettes, or
fragments emerging from the impressions of the young narrator who reports about her life
on Mango Street from her perspective. Each vignette or chapter thus is incredibly vivid
as it communicates aspects of her existence told from her child-like perspective.
"Hairs" focuses on how she classifies different members of family by their different
hair. Most of all, she focuses on her mother's hair, which is described as
follows:



But
my mother's hair, my mother's hair, like little rosettes, like little candy circles all
curly and pretty because she pinned it in pincurls all day, sweet to put your nose into
when she is holding you, holding you and you feel safe, is the warm smell of bread
before you bake it...



Note
the number of stylistic devices in this one long sentence as the narrator is overwhelmed
by the memory of the smell of her mother's hair. It is compared to "rosettes" and
"little candy circles" using two similes. A metaphor is used to compare its smell to the
"warm smell of bread before you bake it." You might want to re-read this small vignette
and see how many other stylistic devices you can identify. Good
luck!

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