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Autobiographical elements

Sandra Cisneros' early life was a subject she would later draw on as a writer in books like The House on Mango Street. She was the only daughter in a series of six kids. The story also is about the subject of migration, and about the struggles of her life during it, which included poverty, as well as misogyny.