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Growing Up In The House On Mango Street By Sandra Cisneros
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Growing up, everyone expects it as this unbelievably spontaneous thing . In Sandra Cisneros book “The house on Mango Street” states that growing up can happen to people variously, in good and bad ways.
In the pages 46- 57 there is a lot of growing up in many of the characters especially Esperanza. Esperanza gets her first job, during her break time she mingles with an oriental man; “ He grabs my face with both hands and kisses me hard on the mouth,”(55). Esperanza has just gotten her first job and her first kiss, not the way she probably wanted. She grew up a little wanting to help her parents pay for her public school. In Esperanza’s growing up it showed that she is a maturing in a good way that will help her in the long

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