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Caramelo

Caramelo has been quite an interesting novel. It describes a Hispanic family to the tee. Sandra Cisneros chose her title perfectly for this book. Life's hardships and possibilities are explored throughout this fascinating novel.

The author describes the word caramelo in different ways and in two different occasions. The first occasion was to describe Candelarias' skin color. Celaya quoted: "Her skin a caramelo. A color so sweet, it hurts to even look at her." (p.37). She also says: "Her skin is as smooth as peanut butter and deep as burnt-milk candy. The other occasion caramelo is mentioned was to describe the awful grandmothers' rare, old, unique, and unfinished silk rebozo. "The grandfather pulls out a cloth from the walnut-wood armoire of caramel, licorice, and vanilla stripes." (p.58) These two events are mostly connected by the description of color. The author describes Candelarias' skin color being so sweet it hurts, much like a very......

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