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    daily struggles for Esperanza in her book‚ The House On Mango Street. Throughout the novel‚ Esperanza searches for her identity and longs for freedom‚ while experiencing gender bias and objectification in her neighborhood. She rejects a life of poverty‚ submission to men‚ and stereotypes. During her year on Mango Street‚ she grows‚ dreams‚ and learns how to overcome these struggles. Esperanza does not want to become like the rest of the women on Mango Street. She notices the male dominant society and

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    The House on Mango Street Plot: Esperanza was happy to live in a house of her own‚ but it wasn’t at all she expected it to be. She wanted to leave the house on Mango Street immediately. Esperanza makes one new friend‚ Cathy. Cathy is only Esperanza’s friend until next Tuesday‚ by then Cathy will move since the neighborhood is too awful. After Cathy leaves‚ Esperanza makes two new friends Rachel and Lucy‚ who are sisters. Throughout the story‚ it shows how Rachel and Lucy’s friendship grows with

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    Women today are seen very differently than the women years ago. The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros portrays the women of the Mexican Culture and their life here in the United States set in Chicago. The women are portrayed by Esperanza who narrates the novel. The roles of women are different for each charterer in the vignettes from being entrapped by men‚ to coming of age‚ the daughter at home or leaving Mango Street. Women become entrapped by their husbands and fathers in this town

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    Can growing up in poverty affect a child? In the article “Effects of poverty”... ‚ by the American psychological association they explain and give different ways kids are affected when they are living in poverty. In the novel House on mango street by sandra cisneros‚ it talks about characters like alicia‚lois‚and sally that all live in poverty. Growing up in poverty will affect a child negatively because they won’t have the money to play sports or for school supplies‚ another reason is they may not

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    “The House on Mango Street” by Sandra Cisneros is series of vignettes put together to create one remarkable novel. The story unfolds from the perspective of Esperanza Cordero‚ a young Latina girl growing up in inner-city Chicago. The plot is loosely based on the author’s childhood. The setting of the novel‚ Mango Street‚ is important to the work’s themes of social classes‚ self-identity‚ and gender roles. Social class is very important to the narrator. Esperanza is ashamed of where she lives and

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    if you have hope when you’re going through a rough time in your life‚ you’ll always have something to believe. Two works that support this quote are The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros and Of Mice and Men by John Steinback. Two literary techniques that both of these authors use are irony and characterization. In The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros‚ Esperanza and her family moved around incessantly from one apartment to another. They moved so much that Esperanza can’t even name all

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    The subject of shoes is a recurring symbol in The House on Mango Street. Esperanza notices and observes various pairs of shoes belonging to different characters throughout the story. The shoes can stand for many distinct concepts‚ such as a journey‚ growth‚ or characters’ personalities. However‚ it can be interpreted that the most prominent idea that they symbolize is sexual maturity. Sandra Cisneros uses a number of vignettes‚ including “The Family of Little Feet‚” “Chanclas‚” “Sire‚” and “Sally

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    against about 50 percent of the world’s population of humans. So‚ those who oppose this would try to show the world that the idea of sexism is wrong‚ and Sandra Cisneros is one of then. She indirectly discusses it in a book‚ "House on Mango Street." This book‚ "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros‚ showed feminism and machismo in the Latino culture. For example‚ I quote‚ "I thought I would because he was so old and just as I was about to put my lips on his cheek‚ he grabs my face with both hands

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    women’s rights on the grounds of political‚ social‚ and economic equality to men. The theme of feminism in the Hispanic culture appears frequently throughout Sandra Cisneros’s‚ The House on Mango Street because of the time period she’s writing about‚ traditional gender roles are present. In The House on Mango Street‚ the theme of feminism is portrayed in numerous chapters through Esperanza’s view on many women’s inequalities.

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    In Sandra Cisneros book‚ The House On Mango Street ‚ the theme is of how fantasizing keeps you going. In the story there are many different quotes and stories explaining how Esperanza and her friends would daydream about life in the future. Explaining how Esperanza’s friends are waiting for the perfect husband to come and marry them and take them off out of Mango street. Almost every story has someone daydreaming about how much better life is going to be when they get older. Explaining

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