In the book “The House On Mango Street” by Sandra Cisneros is a coming to age novel. It tells a story about Esperanza a latina girl growing up in the wonderful world of Chicago with her friends and family. Esperanza and her family recently have moved to mango street. They have moved around a lot in her lifetime because they are poor. Esperanza is determined to leave the house on mango street but in her latino culture most women leave by…
Sandra Cisneros, born in Chicago on December 20, 1954 is a renowned Latin-American novelist who is best known for her novel “The House on Mango Street.” Throughout her childhood Cisneros and her six brothers were frequently bouncing from home to home, each time in a seemingly worse neighborhood. Although Cisneros moved on to earn many academic accolades in her adult life, she struggled to maintain good grades at the Catholic school she attended in Chicago. However, once she attended high school she became interested with poetry and became the magazine editor of her school, and eventually moved on to earn her bachelor's degree from Loyola University in 1976.…
The chapter 5 and chapter 6 and throughout chapter 8 of the book called, The House On Mango Street; represent an ethnic picture from both the past and the present of Mango Street and the surrounding neighborhood. Cathy, Esperanza’s friend indicated what the neighborhood may have been like in the past, while the two families that moved into her house once Cathy’s left were more representative of the whole neighborhood as Esperanza came to experience it. Along the Mango Street lived the black man who was unwelcome from the rest of the neighborhood, different from the people Esperanza sees from day to day. This guy race makes him so unfamiliar that Esperanza is afraid to talk to him. Cathy has shown Esperanza the neighborhood’s two cultures, Latin American and American, and two languages, Spanish and English, which revealing the new cultural makeup of Mango Street. Cathy also provided a window into how outsiders view Esperanza’s neighborhood, even though Cathy is blind to her own family’s similarities to the families around them. Cathy’s family was moving because the neighborhood is “getting bad,” a racist reason that Esperanza immediately understands. Esperanza’s immigrant family, as well as other families like hers, was, in Cathy’s family’s view, causing the neighborhood to deteriorate, and the only thing to do was to move. However, Cathy’s family did not seem to be struggling any less than the other families in Esperanza’s neighborhood. Their house, which Cathy’s father…
Night is a story of a boy named Elie and his experience at Auschwitz concentration camp. Auschwitz was the biggest death camp in the world, 2,000-3,000 people were killed ever hour according to pbs.org. House on Mango Street is a story of a girl growing up in not the best of conditions. She also struggles with fitting in. The book "Night" and "House on Mango Street" differ in their use of figurative language; whereas the symbolism of Night is dark like a nightmare, so that it can show the hardships of the holocaust. The symbolism of House on Mango Street is bright and hopeful to show where Esperanza is and wants to be when she grows up.…
Esperanza is the main character in the book “The House on Mango Street”. She started off as a naive girl that doesn’t know anything about the real world she lives in. As time passes she learns more about herself and the world around her. Another major character in this book is Sally. Sally was born into a harsh family where her father will beats her. Sally was always trapped by her father until one day she marries a man that treats her just like her father but, she doesn’t notices.…
The characterization, in The House on Mango Street, of Esperanza’s great-grandmother and Rafaela is used to convey how women were inferior to men in Esperanza’s society. According to Esperanza, her great-grandmother was a very wild woman. That is why she refused to marry until a man “threw a sack over her head and carried her off” (Cisneros, 11). This shows how unimportant women are, of that time, that a man could kidnap a woman and she could do nothing, no matter how wild she was. Also, despite her wild personality, Esperanza’s great-grandmother shows how women could be forced into marriage without a say in who they marry. Like Esperanza’s great-grandmother, Rafaela has many hopes such as dancing at the dance hall or bar. However, she never…
In the narrative "The House On Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros Esperanza goes through some troubles in the reading. In my time of being alive I have also gone through troubles that are similar and also different. First, she moved into different house as a child allot. When I was a kid we never really stayed in one place, we also moved around and I would always change schools which made it hard to keep and make friends just like her.…
"Esperanza. I have inherited [my great grandmother's] name, but I don't want to inherit her place by the window." Young Esperanza's opening thoughts in Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street begins with the introduction of a surprisingly insightful disadvantaged Hispanic girl named Esperanza, who has just moved into a poor Latino neighborhood. Esperanza's opening remarks foreshadow a theme that continues to develop throughout the entire novel, cumulating piece by piece until a complete puzzle is produced. As Cisneros' Mango Street chronicles an emotionally pivotal year in the life of a young girl, the author herself presumably draws on personal experiences of being raised in an environment in which she struggles and feels like she does not belong. It is evident that Cisneros creatively expresses her own experiences in her writing, and goes so far as to dedicate the book "a las Mujeres," or to the Women. Though not purely biographical, striking similarities of race and background exist between the author and narrator such that Cisneros…
The vignette “The House on Mango Street” shows a serious issue; it discusses poverty and even though it was set in the 1960s, the issue, as shown by articles, is still relevant today. “The House on Mango Street” was written by Sandra Cisneros and is told from Esperanza, a girl struggling with poverty and is told through a series of vignettes. The two articles that will be referenced is “How Does Poverty Affect a Teen’s Lifestyle?” by Ayra Moore, and “Increasing the Minimum Wage Would Help Reduce Poverty” by Elise Gould. Poverty has always been a problem. In fact, 46.7 million people were in poverty in 2014. Out of that number, 33% of those people in poverty are under 18. Clearly, poverty is still a serious issue today that affects many people.…
The House On Mango Street, this is a book with drama, action, sorrow, and some happiness. The book by Sandra Cisnero,. has a lot to do with being a Mexican American. Now I do not know what it's like to be a Mexican American and how back in this time period they were treated, but how the explains not the best.…
In 1984 Sandra Cisneros wrote the novella The House on Mango Street based on the narrator, Esperanza’s, first year living on Mango Street. A young Latino girl, by the name of Esperanza, is growing up in the suburbs of Chicago and is determined to leave her life on Mango Street in her past. In this novella Cisneros explores the effect of loss of innocence on Mango Street. The roles of women and how they treat each other is highly prominent in The House on Mango Street. Throughout Esperanza’s year on Mango Street she begins to realize that women have a responsibility to not harm each other but to help.…
The House on Mango Street is the “coming of age” story of a Mexican-American girl named Esperanza Cordero. The story covers a year in Esperanza's life starting with when she moved to the house on mango street. As the year progresses Esperanza grows emotionally and artistically, as the novel roams through her experience of life. Esperanza, her friends (Rachel, Lucy), and her sister Nenny have many adventures throughout the book. Esperanza has many life experiences including the art of poetry and music also the downsides of poverty and shame. Although the novel includes unforgettable men it also includes women who a trapped in many ways. For Example, Mamacita does not leave the apartment b/c she is afraid of the English language. Rafaela who…
The work of fiction House on Mango Street is written by Sandra Cisneros. It shows the dreams of Esperanza, a little girl who lives on Mango Street, an impoverished area of Chicago. She likes writing and wants to be an author. Both Alicia and Esperanza view education and writing as a pathway to better life. Through these characters, the author suggests that education would offer a kind of freedom.…
In the book, House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, Esperanza the main character faces a lot of conflicts throughout the book. However, I think the one that caused the greatest change in her was the external conflict of what society and men expect of her and other woman. She found out that love was nothing like she thought it would be, and that woman are thought of as objects and not people.…
There are many themes that are important to the story in The House On Mango Street. Alienation and initiation are two themes that I found myself coming across repeatedly. Both of these themes are central in Esperanza’s story. Esperanza is someone who is torn between two different cultures, those being her Mexican heritage and her life in Chicago. In The House on Mango Street we watch as Esperanza struggles to grow up in a place where it is difficult to connect with both her life at home and integrate into the culture she is currently living in.…