The Housewives of Mango Street and Bread GiversSandra Cisneros was born in Chicago and raised in Illinois. She was the only girl in a family of seven. Cisneros is known for her collection of poems and books focused on the Chicano experience in the United States. In her writing, Cisneros explores and transcends geographic, ethnic, gender, and language boundaries. Cisneros writes in lyrical but deceptively simple language. She makes the invisible visible by focusing on the lives of Chicanos – their relationships with their families, their religion, their art, and their politics. Anzia Yezierska has written two collections of short stories and four novels about the struggles of Jewish immigrants in New York. Lower East Side. Yezierska's stories explore the subject of characters grappling with America's disillusionment with poverty and exploitation while searching for the "real" America of their ideals. It presents the struggles of women against family and religious injunctions and socio-economic obstacles in order to create an independent style. His stories all incorporate autobiographical elements. She was not a master of style, plot development, or characterization, but the intensity of feeling and longing is evident in her narratives which outweigh its imperfections. The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, written in 1984, and Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska, published in 1925, are both aimed at adolescent and adult audiences and deal with deeply disturbing themes regarding serious social conditions and their effects on children as adults. Both books are told in the first person; the two narrators are young girls living in disadvantaged neighborhoods; and the two young girls witness the harsh realities of the lives of those who are poor, mistreated and desperate. Although the narrators face these insurmountable obstacles, they manage to survive these harsh environments with their spirits and strength remaining intact. Esperanza, a Chicano with three sisters and a brother, has dreamed of having her own business since she was ten years old. She lived in a one-story apartment that Esperanza thought was finally a "real house." Esperanza's family was poor. His father barely made enough money to make ends meet. His mother, a housewife, had no formal education because she did not have the courage to overcome the shame of her poverty, and her escape was to quit school. Esperanza felt that she had the desire and the courage to invent what she would become..