Question

How does Cisneros play around with connotation and denotation with the word "only"?

(example: "I am the only daughter and only a daughter")?

Answer 1

Cisneros plays around with connotation and denotation with the word only by using the word in different ways. As in this example sentence, it says they are the only daughter, inferring that there is one female child, but they say they are only a daughter, inferring that they feel they can be nothing more than a daughter.

Answer 2

Answer:

Explanation:

I think in both stories there is some type of idea that you have to be perfect  to make their parents happy when in reality you don't

You don't have to be exactly like your parents you don't have to take the same paths they took ; Because we only get one life and you should live it as you choose and not the way someone excepts you to.