Mango Says Goodbye

In the vignette “The House On Mango Street”, Esperanza doesn't like her house and she is embarrassed of her house. However, in Mango “Says Goodbye Sometimes” she still hates that house, but she feels like she is more a part of it. “In the House On Mango Street” Esperanza has no desire to go back to that house in the future, although in “Mango Says Goodbye” Esperanza wants to come back to her house in the future to say hello to all her neighbors and all her friends that she once knew before she escaped. She finds all the cons in living in a house like that. Yet in “Mango Says Goodbye” Esperanza finds all the pros in her life. In the “House On Mango Street” Esperanza takes on lots of challenges through her life and during the coming of age moments. Over time in “Mango Says Goodbye
At the end of the story, Esperanza is more positive in her life and can see through the bad things and once she leaves mango she knows she will miss it. The first vignette shows that Esperanza is more of a child then the Esperanza in the second vignette which in this case is not very kid like and is more mature than the Esperanza in the first vignette. In the vignette hairs she explains how her family has different hair then she does but near the end of the book she doesn't care as much and she knows who she is and fhe is proud to be who she is. In the book Esperanza is knowledgeable about being mature and being a grown up and how to get out of being a child to get that coming of age out of the way as she grows up. In conclusion Esperanza in the beginning is very different to the Esperanza at the end in many different ways. Esperanza will continue to evolve her whole life but this moment for her was the coming of age moment. The moment she becomes more mature and leaves her kid self