"Straw into Gold: Metamorphasis of Everyday"

          This week we also read, "Straw into Gold". The speaker is Sandra Cisneros. She is a Mexican-American writer, who explain her life and achievements. Her tone is simple and practical. Of course the audience is the reader. In her autobiography, Cisneros explains the troubles she went through, but with hard work and dedication she succeeded.
          In the beginning, we are introduced to Cisneros, as a student who is poor and living off grants. Gradually, we start to truly understand her character and her way of thinking. She was very exited to be invited to her friend's house and eat Mexican food, but she did not expect that she had to make anything. Her friends assumed, just because she is Mexican, she has to know how to cook something. She had to make tortillas. She compared making tortillas and her master's test to turning straw into gold, because she is portraying that she is given a task, that is impossible to accomplish. In her family, she was the "black sheep", but she did inherit a sappy heart from her dad and her intelligence from her mom. Finally, at the end of the autobiography, she talks about her achievements and her travels. You can turn straw into gold, but only with the help of imagination.