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    There is a young African American woman around the age of sixteen named Neihandra Jadarian. Neihandra and her mother Alitash live in her father’s home. Her father’s name is Zebenjo. He inherited a castle from his father‚ for his family used to be rulers of their village. The village of KooFrey. It was a cloudy Tuesday and Neihandra had just finished school and decide to walk home with her friend Rudo-Sahaka so that they could study together. Neihandra father told Rudo to go home and Neihandra

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    “Don’t be afraid to start over.” because Esperanza over came and she came very far. Now she has grown up‚ she works‚ and babysits. Esperanza was a brat‚ now she is very loyal and responsible. She is a character in a book called Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan. She has to overcome her momma being sick‚ working in the fields‚ and moving The main challenge was her momma being sick during the time and doing her mom’s work. “...it might take 6 months to get her full strength back.” (page 57) Esperanza

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    In The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros‚ the main characters‚ Esperanza‚ gets a job at a photo development store and says that she "borrowed money for lunch and bus fare because Aunt Lala said I wouldn’t get paid till next Friday’ (Cisneros 54). Esperanza is Hispanic-American

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    Response Paper to the House on Mango Street Sometimes in life‚ people wish for things they do not have. No matter how hard people wish on a star or on a candle‚ the wishes never seemed to be answered. Everyone has felt that bitter disappointment on Christmas morning when they finally realize that they were never going to be able to get what they wanted. This is the same exact feelings that the author in Cisneros ’ The House on Mango Street has. Unlike us‚ the disappointment

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    My head’s spinning now need another cigarette‚ only have 2 left. When the taxi smoothly rolled towards the house I began revising my speech. The rocky gravely road allowed me to decide how to avoid the oncoming piercing glares as I exited the relieved striped taxi. As I took the longest strenuous trudged footsteps to the front gate‚ past the uniformed stocky

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    Graffiti sprawled on the wall like blood on a crime scene and a partly destroyed staircase upward. It was apparent that this was bit was not the factory but an old house conjoined to the factory. This house back in its day was a beautiful grand house‚ but now it was like a crack den. “Careful‚ you don’t want to slip‚ trust me.”seab said quietly. Almost all the floorboards had fallen through and old wooden doors were placed on the floor to be walked on

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    House on Mango Street Study Question Key “The House on Mango Street” (section 1) 1. Esperanza is the narrator of this story. What is her attitude toward the house on Mongo Street? -She does not like the house. It is not their dream house. It is falling apart. The family owns this house‚ so they are no longer subject to the whims of landlords‚ and at the old apartment‚ a nun made Esperanza feel ashamed about where she lived. The house on Mango Street is an improvement‚ but it is still not

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    It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time‚ being ceaselessly drunk.on war‚ on poetry‚ on virtue as you wish. reads Roy. Midnight approaches‚ and while the peak of activity has passed‚ the city whine’s; a soporific noise neither rises nor falls but is pregnant with trepidation. Inside a room‚ its dark and unnoticeable; but adequate light fills the room as we adjust to the darkness. White wall depict a picture frame like window‚ in that black and luminous square; life

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    hopes up too high because things don’t always work out as planned. The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros is a multi-cultural novel that goes through the eyes of a girl named Esperanza. She is a young chicana‚ Mexican-American girl‚ around the age of 12. Her whole life has revolved around moving apartment to apartment. She dreams to move into a real house‚ like all the other kids live in. When they finally move in‚ the house isn’t at all what she thought it would be like‚ it was run down and super

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    The House on Mango Street is a fictional novel made up of interconnected forty-five short vignettes‚ written by a Chicana author Sandra Cisneros. Sandra Cisneros is an American novelist‚ short-story writer‚ essayist‚ and poet‚ born on December 20‚ 1954 in Chicago. Cisneros is one of the first Hispanic-American writers who have achieved commercial success. She is lauded by literary scholars and critics for works which help bring the perspective of Chicana women into the mainstream of literary feminism

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