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    Some people need more guidance than others. In The House on Mango Street‚ Esperanza needs help establishing her own identity. In the community she lives in‚ it is difficult to be who she really wants to be. She meets a lot of different people on Mango Street‚ but Alicia and the three sisters really help her become who she truly is. Alicia is just another women that grew up on Mango Street. The majority of women at this time period grew up to be house wives or factory workers but Alicia knew that she

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    House on Mango Street Reflection Guide Now that you have read House on Mango Street and have a better understanding of the themes presented in this story‚ read each statement below and respond to each by placing an A in the “AFTER” column showing if you agree‚ or a D for disagree if you disagree with the statement. Remember‚ these are the same statements as presented in your 3.03 Anticipation Guide Reflect on your responses. Analyze why your choices for the “after” column changed or did not

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    too will be able to leave this place behind. In Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street‚ Esperanza Cordero realizes that she really can’t leave from Mango Street‚ a rundown neighborhood in Chicago. In Esperanza’s journey‚ she yearns to leave while other women such as Sally‚ Minerva‚ and Rafaela aspire to do so as well but have failed to escape the neighborhood they are succumbed to. This dream of moving away from Mango Street is a common desire between these women‚ yet their ways of attempting

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    10:40-11:55 November 26‚ 2012 “The Setting of the House on Mango Street” The short story‚ “The House on Mango Street‚” is a story that is centered within a particular neighborhood‚ which is evidently inhabited by middle-to-lower class folks. Although the introduction of the story does not state a specific location‚ it is safe to say that it is not the typical neighborhood where you would find rich white folks living. For example‚ the house where the protagonists live is described as almost collapsing

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    I felt that the author used high heels in the book as a metaphor of Esperanza’s tremendous growth and maturity through the book of "house on mango street". Esperanza starts as an extremely immature insecure‚ with a childish personality of a young girl‚ but later on matures greatly throughout the book. IN the beginning of the novel‚ Esperanza really shows that she despises boys‚ not liking they and essentially does not want anything to do with them. But as the book progress‚ she begins to dream about

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    that Esperanza was writing in the beginning of the chapter and she sounds like six years old because she loves to write about her houses that she described many things about her homes that her family and she didn’t always live on Mango street. Before that‚ they lived on Loomis on the third floor‚ and before that‚ they lived on Keeler. She writes‚ “The house on Mango Street is ours‚ and we don’t have to pay rent to anybody‚ or share the yard with the people J downstairs‚ or be careful not to make too

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    house on mango street essay In the novel The House on Mango Street By Sandra Cisneros violence plays a large role in the characters lives. Violence is shown throughout the story through the eyes of Esperanza who is the main character. She has friends and neighbors all who are affected by violence. To begin with‚ in the vignette "Minerva who writes poems" Esperanza talks about her neighbor Minerva. She says that Minerva’s boyfriend comes to visit and beats her and then she goes to her house

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    Growing Up in Poverty In the novel‚ The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros‚ a young confused girl has trouble finding herself as she grows up in the Latino section of Chicago. Esperanza and her family move to a small‚ crumbling red house in a poor urban neighborhood. Determined‚ she decides that someday she will leave and move somewhere else and totally forget everything about Mango Street. Throughout the novel‚ Esperanza significantly matures sexually and emotionally. The many stories of

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    Response to The House on Mango Street The main character in Sandra Cisneros’ novel The House on Mango Street‚ Esperanza is a complex young girl. From the outside I just pictured a young‚ Spanish girl that’s not very wealthy or amazingly beautiful. Just average. But then I got to know the character and learn that she wishes to be different from her grandmother. She was born in a year that is considered “bad luck” if female. Her grandmother was a wild woman and didn’t wish to marry. They share a

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    The House on Mango Street written by Sandra Cisneros emerges as a piece of literary mastery demonstrated through the multilevel narration and celebration of subjective representation. The author utilizes the unusual practice of thorough weaving of the tapestry containing the main character’s opinions and cognitive processes that exist within the matrix of three levels of narration. Furthermore‚ the story world level‚ the level of narration and authorial level appear to execute distinctive functions

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