The Monkey Garden

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The Monkey Garden is a short story about an adult telling her story as a young child and her loss of childhood innocence. The, now mature woman, remembers her initiation into adolescence through the images and events that occurred to her as a child. While a young girl, Sandra is not ready to mature into her adolescence and soon uses her imagination to transform an old lot into a garden. This is where Cisneros goes to escape from the real world and hide from being an adult. In The Monkey Garden by Sandra Cisneros, the imagery of hiding is showed multiple times. The narrator goes into the garden frequently because she wants to hide from the real world. She feels that going to her special place will let her put off what is bound to happen even more that it needs to be. Sandra realizes that changes will need to be made in order to grow up, but she runs from these by escaping in her ‘garden.’ When she finally comes to the conclusion that she can no longer run from what is going to happen sooner or later, she attempts to hide from herself; trying to solve the problem a different way. Hiding from herself only leaving Cisneros confused on who she is and what she is meant to do. The young, innocent girl wanted the garden to just go away when she was ready for it to. She wanted the garden to be hidden or forgotten as a child like “the murdered pirates or the dinosaurs” (paragraph 7). I feel the narrator wanted this to happen and wanted the garden to go away more when she was getting older because she was starting to realize that everything she had made the garden and all the experiences she had put into it was going to vaporize. She didn’t want those memories of all the time she wasted in a fantasy place all because she was scared of growing up. The imagery of hiding was a good way to avoid the obvious for Cisneros. She did what she thought was the right thing
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