Analysis Of The Movie Caramelo By Sandra Cisneros

Caramelo, written by Sandra Cisneros, revolves around the main character Ceyala s life and her family. The story unfolds with Ceyala’s family traveling to Mexico for their annual trip. It then later begins with the family’s history exhibiting that the search for work and money causes Ceyala’s family to move to the US, in order to find financial stability. Throughout the time, Ceyala’s family moves through Texas, Chicago, and Mexico, Cisneros exhibits the theme of identity through the family’s history, relationships, and other interactions the characters have with one another. Everybody’s role and identity within a latino family are explored throughout the text. Sandra Cisneros uses smaller main ideas and symbols of home, love, roots, and womanhood in order to further elucidate the greater theme of identity. One of the symbols and smaller main ideas that the characters explore is the meaning of home. Ceyala’s family struggles to find their place, and identity. They question what or where is home, whether it is family, the US, or Mexico. Cisneros uses the idea of home through many characters. In the last part of this book, Cisneros uses Inocencio, Ceyala’s father, and the conflict of when the border patrol come and talk to him. After they converse, the border patrol commands that he moves back down south to Mexico. His family later received the bad news of returning back to Mexico, this sparks questions in Ceyala s understanding of what is home. Ceyala’s family had