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Family Of Little Feet Metaphor
In the chapter “The Family of little feet” there is a metaphor and a symbol that Cisneros uses that encapsulates the topic and theme of the vignettes with an explanation of how it expresses the topic or theme which is growth, maturity, and sexuality. The metaphor used is "Today we are Cinderella because our feet fit exactly. . ." (40). There is two other quotes that can be used too, “We are tired of being beautiful” (42) and “Your lemon shoes are so beautiful…” (41). This metaphor and quotes links back to growth and maturity because it describes how as kids all everyone wanted to do was act like adults and wished to grow up. But, when we grow up we realize that it really isn’t fun. To symbolize this, the author used lemon shoes.
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