Analysis Of The House On Mango Street By Sandra Cisneros

Sandra Cisneros’ novel, “The House on Mango Street,” is about the adventures and ways of a small side street. We get to see how the main character, Esperanza grows and matures throughout her time on Mango Street. Since the book is written in first person, Esperanza expresses her thoughts and feeling straight to the reader. In the novel, Mango street typically houses residents with poor backgrounds, and is used as a temporary home for most. Although many people who live on Mango street move out in a short period of time, Esperanza stays in the house she hates longer than anyone else. She constantly watches her friends leave, and has to make new friends every time someone moves in. After experiencing this many times, I believe that Esperanza no longer continues to see herself as a resident on Mango street, but a part of Mango street. This is her distinct point of view compared to the others on mango street.

Sandra Cisneros is a latina born in Chicago in 1954. She is the only daughter out of seven of her siblings. She worked as a teacher and counselor to high-school dropouts, as an artist-in-the-schools where she taught creative writing at every level except first grade and pre-school, a college recruiter, an arts administrator, and as a visiting writer at a number of universities including the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Michigan. When she began writing books it was soon translated into many languages such as Spanish, French, Dutch, Italian and many more. She is very proud of her family. Her grandfather even played piano for the mexican president. She is know mostly for her famous book, ‘The House on Mango Street’. The book was based off her neighborhood that she grew up In Chicago. In 1995,

The House on Mango Street, written by Sandra Cisneros, is a novel about a young girl growing up in the Latino area of Chicago. It is highly admired and is taught in a plethora of grade schools and universities. The House on Mango Street expresses the story of Esperanza Cordero, whose neighborhood is full of harsh realities and jarring beauty. Esperanza doesn’t want to belong- not to her run-down neighborhood, and not to the low expectations the world has for her. Esperanza’s story is of a young girl coming into her power, and inventing what she will become for herself. While Esperanza and the other women have many differences, as in the way she is fortunate to avoid the pitfalls of her environment and others are not, there are just as many

In the novel, “The House on Mango Street” by Sandra Cisneros, the main character Esperanza has many positive influences on her life. Hardships do not define one’s life either in a mental or physical capacity. Throughout the novel, Esperanza’s grandmother, Marin, and Rosa Vargas enable her to overcome the hardships of becoming a woman.

But when she saw the house that they moved into, it was not what she had expected. In the book, Esperanza says, “But the house on Mango Street is not the way they told it at all. It’s small and red with tight steps in front and windows so small you’d think they were holding their breath. Bricks are crumbling in places, and the front door is so swollen you have to push hard to get in. There is no front yard, only four little elms the city planted by the curb. Out back is a small garage for the car we don’t own yet and a small yard that looks smaller between the two buildings on either side. There are stairs in our house, but they’re ordinary hallway stairs, and the house has only one washroom. Everybody has to share a bedroom-- Mama and Papa, Carlos and Kiki, me and Nenny.” (Cisneros 4). By reading this, the reader can see the parallel between the house and Esperanza’s struggle with her identity. Esperanza expected her house to be this beautiful, huge, almost mansion-type place, whereas in reality it was a small house, with not much inside. Just like that, Esperanza wants to be this amazing, strong, confident, prolific writer, whereas she does not even know who she is yet. Like the house she imagined, she wants there to be so much to her, but now, she is like her house on Mango Street with not much to her that she has discovered

“You will always be Esperanza. You will always be Mango Street. You can't erase what you know. You can't forget who you are” (105). No matter what, Esperanza’s experiences on Mango Street have become a part of her and she cannot change it. In the novella, The House on Mango Street, written by Sandra Cisneros, the author introduces Esperanza, a resident of Mango Street, who constantly dreams of becoming an independent woman with a house of her own ideals. As she and her family purchase a house and become a newcomer into a new neighborhood of a crowded and poor Latino area, Esperanza faces mental and physical changes that affect how she sees the world. Sadly, the characteristics of the house consist of nothing of her desires. Due to her

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The House On Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros is a story about a mexican american girl named Esperanza growing up in chicago. Esperanza’s life is similar to mine because we both have an interesting life. But our stories are different because she faces more issues in her life.

In the book The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, Esperanza is finding her place in the world by growing physically and mentally, overcoming gender roles, and discovering her freedom.

In the novel The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros tells the story of Esperanza, a young girl who lives in poverty. Esperanza experiences connections with others to help her become more accepting to living on Mango Street, regardless of her initial thoughts of the house. Throughout the novel, Esperanza accepts her life on Mango Street due to new friends and good experiences.

The House on Mango Street In the book, The House on Mango Street Sandra Cisneros shows us many examples of women through the eyes of a young girl named Esperanza. Esperanza constantly sees the negative side of society standards toward women. Being pressured to marry from her culture and community; Esperanza questions her future and concludes that she wants to be independent and not rely on a man for happiness. Cisneros suggest to the reader that being a women doesn’t define your future and who you are. The author shows us how very few people that don’t rely on a man with Alicia .Cisneros

In Sandra Cisneros’ “The House On Mango Street”, Esperanza was faced with multiple struggles while living in her house on Mango Street, the theme of gender roles and expectations formed Esperanza in a negative way. From the beginning Esperanza never felt that sense of belonging in the neighborhood because she felt like she wasn't like others in the neighborhood. Almost all of the women on Mango Street had expectations on relying on a man to keep them successful. Yet Esperanza conforms to these expectations of being a women in Mango Street by learning from other girls in her community’s mistakes. This forms a jittery feeling for Esperanza to remain independent. The expectations of being a woman in Mango Street are powerful because most of the

Esperanza's overall opinion on sex and romance are like a storybook. Or at least that's what she has been told. She thinks that romance is a fairytale and prince charming is supposed to sweep her off her feet and fall in love with her. One of Esperanza's friends tells her everything. she talks about love with her friend sally, sally told her everything there is to know about love. She told her everything about Sally told her that falling in love is amazing and all she wanted to do was fall in love with someone who felt the same way. Everyone thinks that sally is crazy for thinking all of that but esperanza does not. She thinks that it's really sweet and she believes that sally will find someone.

In the beginning of the novel, the house on Mango Street was immediately shown to have a special place in Esperanza’s course of life. Although the house wasn’t in agreement to what she was expecting, it was finally a secure residency. “The house on Mango Street is ours, and we don’t have to pay rent to anybody, or share a yard with the people downstairs, or be careful not to make too much noise, and there isn’t a landlord banging on the ceiling with a broom.” (Cisneros, 3) Esperanza's bond with the house continues even further. The Cordero family stops growing for it seemed that each time they moved, “there’d be one more of us. By the time we got to Mango Street we were six - Mama, Papa, Carlos, Kiki, my sister Nenny, and me.” (Cisneros, 1) This pause in family growth might have given Esperanza the time to make her own developments while living on this street. There are moments where she matures physically, sexually, and

This was about a young girl and a house that she had wanted ever since they had started moving year to year. Her father had promised that they would have a house that they did not have to pay rent in or be bothered by the landlord.They could live happily not being bother by anyone. This was the house on mango street (by Sandra Cisneros).I believe that this girl living in that old apartment with bars on the window wants nothing more than to have a house to point at where they don't have to pay rent, to be proud of and for her not to have someone like her landlord knocking on the roof or even a house where she can’t make a lot of noise .