Straw into Gold: The Metamorphosis of the Everyday, by Sandra Cisneros (textbook, p. 252)

1. How did she feel other people viewed her as a child?

 

2. How did she view herself as a child?

 

3. What did she inherit from her parents?

 

4. She says “there was a hunger I didn’t even have a name for.” What did she turn to to satisfy that hunger and why?

 

5. Did she change? (Developing character?) How?

 

6. What did she discover about herself as she grew older?

 

7. What is the “straw” that the writer turns into gold? Give some examples of the everyday that the author transformed into literature.

 

8. Compare her metamorphosis to our Christian walk... (How is it the same? How is it different?)