(As in, easy to read.) So readable, in fact, that you can pick up this book, open it to any page, and make sense of what's going on, without having any idea of what came before or what's going to happen next. So, let it be said that we totally agree with Cisneros's assessment of her own style. After all, she's had a long career as an educator, so she wants you to understand how writing works and why she does the things she does. (Introduction.20) Isn't that nice of her? Cisneros is incredibly straightforward about her writing process. For instance, here's what Sandra Cisneros has to say about the style she developed for writing this book: She experiments, creating a text that is as succinct and flexible as poetry, snapping sentences into fragments so that the reader pauses, making each sentence serve her and not the other way round, abandoning quotation marks to streamline the typography and make the page as simple and readable as possible. OK, you know that really great introduction to the 25th anniversary edition of The House on Mango Street that we keep telling you to read? It's really helpful in understanding why Sandra Cisneros writes the way she does. Clear and Readable, Succinct, and Poetic.
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