Discuss the border as both a physical place and as metaphor

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Assignment: The stories in each depict perspectives of living on the border or in the margins of society. For example, Mango Street is set in a Chicago barrio, which is an ethnic enclave; Anzaldua's, Rios's, and Cisneros's poems discuss the border as both a physical place and as metaphor. How do the various settings shape the narrators' identities across these stories?

"To Live in the Borderlands Means You," by Anzaldua, from Frontiers (1996).

"The House on Mango Street" by Cisneros (1984).

"Border Boy" by Rios.

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