Analysis Of ' The House On Mango Street '

In The House on Mango Street, written by Sandra Cisneros and published in 1984, we join young Esperanza as she faces the struggles that come as a female Mexican American living in Chicago. Family businesses are significant in The House on Mango Street because they represent the diversity of cultures, and communities in Chicago during the 1960s and 70s. Young Esperanza is not accustomed to a permanent living situation. She spent a lot of her childhood moving from apartment to apartment, none of which were properly furnished with basic amenities. Despite her family making the significant accomplishment of purchasing a house to call their own, Esperanza is not fulfilled.

The House on Mango Street is a novel on the growth of a young girl named Esperanza going through the challenges of puberty in a Latino neighborhood in Chicago. She wishes to be different from all the other women who have lived on Mango Street, because they have lived unfortunate lives. She wishes to have “a house all my own … a space for myself to go” (“A House of My Own” 108), to be an independent person, unlike most of the women, who have tied themselves down or have been tied down by their boyfriends, husbands, or parents. Sally is beaten by her father, so she defies him and goes to hang out with boys.

The House on Mango Street explores a year of Esperanza Cordero’s life and those around her in a series of vignettes and how it shapes her as an individual. Esperanza is a young, Latina girl, whose father is Mexican and mother Latina. Esperanza and her family moved from the other side of Chicago to a home in a Latinx community in which Esperanza describes as small and red, with tight steps in the front and windows so small, you would think they were holding their breath (Cisneros, 2009, p. 4). The home is in no way how Esperanza imagines, but it is an improvement from where they were staying. During the year in Esperaza’s life, readers see how she matures socially, emotionally, and sexually. She has an ultimate goal, which is to leave Mango

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros is a novella following the experiences of a growing young latino girl, dealing with poverty and the harsh realities of life as a girl in a bad neighborhood. Esperanza has been exposed to many traumatic experiences in a gradience. It began with an non consensual kiss, soon after followed by rape and sexual abuse. She grew up with other bad influences in her neighborhood, such as Joe the baby grabber and abusive husbands and fathers. Throughout Esperanzas childhood, many terrible experiences have shaped her identity into a determined and independent woman, but the single most dominant influence is poverty.

This discusses how identity is found in someone's culture. The reason people have incorrect ideas about where Esperanza lives and who lives there is that their cultures are different. They may have a different way of going about life, so they form wrongful assumptions because they don’t how they would live in that situation. This all coincides with how Esperanza is starting to feel and how she is realizing people view her

In The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros, a little girl from a Latino heritage is given birth to. Not literally, but in the sense of characterization. Esperanza is a fictional character made up by Cisneros to bring about sensitive, alert, and rich literature. She is the protagonist in the novel and is used to depict a female’s life growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Cisneros creates the illusion that Esperanza is a real human being to communicate the struggles of growing up as a Latina immigrant in a modern world, by giving her a name, elaborating her thoughts and feelings, and illustrating her growth as a person through major events.

The House on Mango Street is an important coming of age story that observes the life of a young "Chicana" (Mexican-American) girl through her creative use of words and storytelling over the course of one year. It is an interesting style to read because of the way it paints several pictures then leaves the reader to bring them together to see the bigger image of the area in which the protagonist, Esperanza, lives.

In The House on Mango Street, written by Sandra Cisneros, Esperanza, a young Latina girl, searches for her identity after years of being impacted by her surroundings and cultural beliefs. We see Esperanza grow from an innocent child to a mature woman through challenges and excitement. Introduced to new surroundings, Esperanza finds herself exposed to the world's harsh realities, but learning to see the beauty in the pain of growing. Sandra Cisneros uses the notion of cultural beauty standards to represent developing sexuality and reveal the pressure on young women to become more feminine in the male gaze. Cisneros uses symbols of strong feminism and womanhood to represent Esperanza's fight against toxic masculinity and losing her authentic

Esperanza, a strong- willed girl who dreams big despite her surroundings and restrictions, is the main character in The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. Esperanza represents the females of her poor and impoverished neighborhood who wish to change and better themselves. She desires both sexuality and autonomy of marriage, hoping to break the typical life cycle of woman in her family and neighborhood. Throughout the novel, she goes through many different changes in search of identity and maturity, seeking self-reliance and interdependence, through insecure ideas such as owning her own house, instead of seeking comfort and in one’s self. Esperanza matures as she begins to see the difference. She evolves from an insecure girl to a

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.

The House on Mango Street is a novel that seeks to bring awareness of Mexican-American culture and how it affects women in particular. Accordingly, Esperanza is used to portray what it is like to be a Mexican-American female in this world. Throughout the novel she learns what is expected of her and what is supposedly out of her reach. She finds her own identity to be influenced by her culture and socioeconomic status, which creates her to be independent and caring.

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros tells the poignant and heartwarming story of Esperanza Cordero, a Latina girl maturing in Chicago. As Esperanza grows, she is faced with new hardships and expectations associated with being a woman, and becomes ashamed of her life. Esperanza learns to accept her life because she is exposed to different perspectives of women who feel trapped on Mango Street.

The House on Mango Street is a story about a teenage latina girl in a Chicago ghetto. Esperanza´s society is dominated by men, who only like women for the way they look, not what’s inside. The House on Mango Street describes how latina women face problems in their society not abling them to fit in, treating them as second class citizens.

Everyone has challenges in their life, their feelings behind their actions make them who they are. In the novel The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros there are many conflicts which explore the characters, to get to know them closer. The internal conflict is used to discover the identity of the main character, Esperanza.

Have you ever felt like the place you belonged to didn’t belong to you? In The House on Mango Street, this is how the main character, Esperanza, felt. The author, Sandra Cisneros, did a good job in portraying a girl who couldn’t find her place. She had a problem accepting where she was from, The House on Mango Street is heartfelt novel and is great to pass the time. In this story, you will be shown the lives of Esperanza, her sister Nenny, their two best friends Rachel and Lucy, and the many people who lived on Mango Street. This book is about a girl who went from denying her place to accepting it.