An Essay On Esperanza's 'The House On Mango Street'

In Sandra Cisnero’s novella, The House on Mango Street, Esperanza sees the importance of learning about her sexuality as she is growing up from her childhood to adolescence. In the first vignette, “The Family of Little Feet,” Esperanza and her two other friends receive three pairs of “dancing shoes” which they all are excited about. They get the idea to put them on and walk around town showing off how beautiful the shoes are. They feel good and special in front of everyone up until Mr. Benny at the grocery store notices the girls and asks, “Your mother know you got shoes like that? Them are dangerous. You girls too young to be wearing shoes like that. Take them shoes off before I call the cops” he threatens (41). At first, Esperanza and her friends don’t pay attention to what Mr. Benny

In the vignette “Chanclas”, the author, Sandra Cisneros, depicts Esperanza’s experience at a baptism party, as Esperanza expresses different feelings that change in course of the vignette. Her feelings are designated by six keywords, “plungers, drag, skinny, watches, movies, forgets”, each one of those words contributes to the effect of the passage and their effect changes from one to the other. At the beginning of the vignette, Esperanza feels self-conscious and holds herself down due to her shame and appearance (as an outcast). When Esperanza is finally willing to dance, her feet oppose her and she loses control over them like she describes, “my feet swell big and heavy like plungers”. Plungers, rubber suction cups attached to the end of a stick that are used to unclog

As a young girl, Esperanza is a young girl who looks at life from experience of living in poverty, where many do not question their experience. She is a shy, but very bright girl. She dreams of the perfect home, with beautiful flowers and a room for everyone. When she moves to the house of Mango Street, reality is so different than the dream. In this story, hope (Esperanza) sustains tragedy. The house she dreamed of was another on. It was one of her own. One where she did not have to share a bedroom with everyone. That included her mother, father and two siblings. The run down tiny house has "bricks crumbling in places". The one she dreamed of had a great big yard, trees and 'grass growing without a fence'. She did not want to abandon

The House on Mango Street Esperanza’s transition from a child into a young teen becomes evident when she begins to take an interest in boys. As a child Esperanza thought that, “The boys and the girls live in separate worlds. The boys in their universe and we in ours” (pg. 9). We can see that this comes from a child who believes that boys and girl are very different and have no relationship with each other. As Esperanza continues to grow, she begins to take an interest in boys.

When Esperanza experiences awful situations somewhere she has happy childhood memories, it begins the loss of her

Lindsey Rietzsch once said “A negative attitude drains, a positive attitude energizes.” This quote means that having a negative attitude lowers your self versus having a positive attitude where is actually increases attitude and it energizes you by inspiring you. “The House on Mango Street” sets up in Chicago, where the narrator(Esperanza) lives on Mango Street. The House on Mango Street that Esperanza lives in is really bad condition and old. It is so small that the narrator has to share beds in the same room with her family. Esperanza begins to lower her self esteem because she does not like where she lives and every time when some asks, “Where do you live?” She wants a real house that she could point to and she thinks the House On Mango street is not. But later, along the times, Esperanza’s negativity of herself begins to slowly change by looking at nature and take a closer look at the environment she lives in. Cisnero shows that knowing and being able to accept where our background is from is an important part of growing in life also as determining the real you.

Esperanza is the strong-willed main character who wants to break free from the limitations and expectations of a women set by her community. Unlike majority of the women in her neighborhood, she dreams of her escape from this discriminatory treatment. As she blossoms from a young girl to a mature women, she comes to the realization that she can never escape, because that house on Mango Street is a part of her. She can only learn from her experience living her never flee from it. When Esperanza creates creates an original piece of poetry, she shares it with Aunt Lupe, who in return, shares some insightful advice. (60-61) Writing through all forms can allow people to escape the realities and bounds of life.

People from all over the world change, change in either mentality, thoughts, maturity, physically, mentally, appearance, feelings and etc. What causes the transformation of that person is important, but how much did it affect them is also crucial. In Sandra Cisneros novel, entitled The House on Mango Street,the story depicts a Latina girl who transform throughout her time being on Mango Street. The girl named Esperanza is to faced obstacles of female oppression that she witnesses in the life of women on her street who they depends on men to bring them out of the street. In The House on Mango Street, Cisneros uses characterization to express the

Growing up and chasing your goals can be tough for some people because of their financial status or surroundings and more for a child that has to go through it at a young age. But what actually takes people far to succeed in life is to work diligently and to never capitulate. Esperanza Cordero, a girl who dreams are significant, is the main character on The House On Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, who represents the females of her needy neighborhood who desire to enhance and change themselves despite their surroundings and restrictions while she struggles to confront her neighborhood’s poverty. Because of her Mexican heritage, Esperanza hopes to change the typical role of women in her family and neighborhood. Throughout the book, Esperanza goes through several changes to seek her identity, maturity and independence. Throughout the novel Esperanza evolves from an immature, innocent girl to a mature young lady because of the experiences of having to deal with abuse, poverty and the fact that she wanted to be distinct.

Women’s Escape into Misery Women’s need for male support and their husband’s constant degradation of them was a recurring theme in the book House on Mango Street. Many of Esperanza’s stories were about women’s dreams of marrying, the perfect husband and having the perfect family and home. Sally, Rafaela, and Minerva are women who gave me the impression of [damsel’s in distress].CLICHÉ, it’s ok though. It’s relevant They wished for a man to sweep them of their feet and rescue them from their present misery. These characters are inspiring and strong but they are unable to escape the repression of the surrounding environment. *Cisneros presents a rigid world in which they lived in, and left them no other hope but to get married.

matter how hard people wish on a star or on a candle, the wishes never seemed to be

To say that Esperanza was sad at the beginning of the novel would be an understatement because so much had changed in a short period of time. Esperanza and her father were very close, when her father was killed by bandits her entire world changed for the worst. With her Papa’s stepbrothers seizing her ranch, forcing her mother into marriage, her home burning down, her Abuelita being injured and relocating to the United States it was hard to find something to be happy about. She was forced to start from scratch.

What does a house represent? For most people a house is a shelter from the weather, a safe environment, a place where one finds stability and strength, and where family gets together. In the novel written by Sandra Cisneros, “The House on Mango Street”, the author tries to explain that every person owns a home with which an individual identifies, it describes who one is, and determined by how a individual view itself, and so it is what makes every person unique. However, for Esperanza, the House on Mango Streets symbolizes the struggles they went through and the poverty they live in.

Aristotle Onassis, a businessman, once said, “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” This unequivocal quote connects with the writing style of the author in Sandra Cisneros coming-of-age novel, The House on Mango Street. Esperanza, the narrator, has never been blessed with everything she could ever wanted, whether it be her clothes, furniture, homes, or just the neighborhoods she predominantly lived in. The actuality of her families insufficiency of prosperity humiliated Esperanza, her entire life. Furthermore, Sandra Cisneros’ distinctive writing style of molding together a story that has a simple meaning. Nevertheless, creates a story where the words lucidly cascade off your tongue forging an engaging story of how a girl struggles to remember how you have to make the best of

Esperanza, from The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, is the strong-willed main character who wants to break free from the limitations and expectations from a women set by the community. Unlike the majority of the women in her neighborhood, she envisions her escape from this sexist treatment that she is facing. As Esperanza blossoms from a young girl to a mature woman, she comes to realize that she can never escape, because that house on Mango Street is a part of her. When Esperanza creates an original piece of poetry, she shares it with Aunt Lupe, who offers some insightful advice (60-61). Esperanza learns that writing can allow people to escape the realities and boundaries of life.