Transcript My Lucy Friend Who Smells Like Corn

My Lucy Friend Who
Smells Like Corn
Sandra Cisneros
Author
 Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago but
spent most of her childhood and youth moving
back and forth between Chicago and Mexico.
By addressing themes of identity, poverty, and
gender in lyrical and sensual language, she
has become one of the nation’s most well
known and respected Chicana authors.
Talk to the Text
 Asking questions  Reflecting and
relating
 Predicting

Evaluating
 Visualizing

Revising
meaning
 Making
connections
 Forming
interpretations
 Summarizing
 clarifying
Character Analysis
 Write a 2 chunk paragraph for each character,
analyzing their appearances, behaviors, and
personalities.
Character Analysis
 Consider how the author discloses the character:
By what the character ways or thinks.
By what the character does.
By what other characters say about him/her.
By what the author ways about him/her.
The short form for this is STAR (says, thinks, acts,
reacts).
 How would you describe Cisneros's style in "My Lucy
Friend Who Smells Like Corn"? Why do you think
Cisneros makes some of the linguistic and stylistic
choices that she makes in that story?