Analysis Of Where Is The Mango Princess

1. The Bite of a Mango by Mariatu Kamara and Susan McClelland, is a powerful story about the experiences of young Mariatu Kamara, a Canadian refugee from Sierra Leone. The culture of Sierra Leone during the 90’s and 2000’s impacted Mariatu’s life and how she ends up in Canada. One aspect of the Sierra Leonean culture is that young girls get married and have children at a very young age. When Mariatu was only 12 years old, an older man named Salieu wanted to marry her, but she rejected him. After that, while Mariatu was all alone at her house, Salieu came in and raped her, making her pregnant. She later gave birth to a baby, Abdul, who died due to malnutrition. Mariatu getting raped by an older man shows how the Sierra Leonean culture impacted her life because, in the West, this would not be acceptable, and Salieu would have been punished, although in the book, he is later shot by rebel soldiers. Next, another culture aspect of Sierra Leone is that a civil war is going on during Mariatu’s time there. Rebels and soldiers alike were attacking and destroying the country. One day, Mariatu had to go to a nearby village to get food, where rebels captured her

The Novel, The House on Mango Street, was based on the writer Sandra Cisneros. She was writing this when she was living in Chicago. She was like Esperanza. She want though poverty. She has been heartbroken and deeply joyous. She inventing for herself who and what she will become. This is the life of Esperanza Cordero and based on Sandra Cisneros to all women out there.

The most recent book that I have read over the first marking period was the book, A Mango Shaped Space.” In this story, a girl named Mia is in the 8th grade. She has a cat named Mango, whom she found on the street. Her cat was very sick and was taken to the vet. Mango survived luckily, but needed many medications in order to keep staying healthy. Mia also had a condition called synesthesia, which enabled her to connect colors with words. Mango was always in critical condition, but was always loving to the family. That was, until Mia makes a mistake. She accidently leaves Mango outside

A Mango Shaped Space, was one of the most intriguing books I have read. Mia’s story not only gave me the freedom to consider the gifts I take for granted every day, but taught me to appreciate the strengths others have. At the beginning of my journey with Mia, I was jealous of her Synesthesia. I saw her as a unique, almost superhuman teenager and myself as an average one. Because of this, A Mango Shaped Space was more than personal growth story for Mia. I grew as well.

In the short story “Saturday Climbing”, there was a single father named Berry who has a poor relationship with his daughter Moira. Even though Berry struggles to connect with Moira, but it usually ends with both of them getting anger. This time the father strives to rebuild the relationship by going to a rock climbing trip with her daughter. However, the father met many difficulties in the climbing. “For a moment, he suffered vertigo…Inside his flesh, his bones trembled.”(paragraph11) But in ordered to fix the relationship with his daughter, he had to struggle and overcome every difficulty. “His voice sound faint and breathy. He was glad she could not see his momentary weakness” (paragraph4) Father’s behavior not only shoed he was brave, but also how he loved his daughter. Meanwhile, Derry started to see and treat Moira as a real lady. All the struggles or challenges Berry has had to himself help him for fixing the relationship with Moira

In the book “Monique and the Mango Rains,” by Kris Holloway, a woman from United States, was influenced by a young woman named Monique Dembele during her time serving as a volunteer Peace Corps in Mali, West Africa in 1989-1991. Monique, a young Malian woman, became a midwife in a country where healthcare was almost non-existence. In this autobiographical account tells the story of Monique from the view of the Author as she gets to know her and the city. They became friends and mention how she was able to witness and assist Monique delivered numerous births throughout the village. The author mentions that during her time in Mali her biggest concern was healthcare and fighting for women’s rights. This is also an example of how males using their gender role to control the woman in their lives.

Monique and the Mango Rains written by Kris Holloway is a compelling story of a friendship between a young Peace Corps volunteer and a midwife. This book is about how Monique wants to better the lives of women and children who constantly poverty, unhappy marriages, and endless work. Throughout the story it can be seen that there are many different concepts that the culture encounters every day, and for women it is not easy. Three of these major concepts include but are not limited to gender inequality, infant mortality and violence against women. While there is not technical term for violence against women it can be described as violence that causes physical, sexual, psychological or economic harm; it is a violation of human rights and a

The Bite of the Mango speaks about the war in Sierra Leone in the 1990s and is through the eyes of Mariatu Kamara, a female and amputee, while A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier is written by Ishmael Beah, a boy soldier that lost everything. They both were casualties to one of the most brutal civil wars; however, their experiences were different due to gender.

Since the start of the Sierra Leonean war in March of 1991, innocent civilians have been the primary target of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF)’s wrath. The people of Sierra Leone have faced significant problems due to the invasions and attacks by the Rebel Forces and are the main population that is being affected by this group’s disapproval of the government. One person who experienced profound changes in her life due to the start of this war is Mariatu Kamara, a victim of a Rebel attack that cost her both her childhood and her hands. Throughout her memoir, “The Bite of the Mango,” she is faced with numerous traumatic events and meets an abundance of people who were very significant in her life and some of whom helped her survive the war. Kamara also gives the reader a variety of themes to use as a foundation to understanding war life, which also serve to help readers learn more about life, grow as people, and rise above to help others in need. Mariatu Kamara has not only changed the lives of people all throughout Sierra Leone by giving them a voice and an outlet to share their experiences, but has also proved to be an inspiration for countless amputees around the world.

While reading The Bite of the Mango, there are many traumatic events Mariatu experiences. Even these events are extremely devastating, heartbreaking, and life changing, Mariatu learns to seek the positives in her situations to make her life more joyful. The first traumatic event that Mariatu experienced was her little brother Santigie dying when Mariatu was 6 years old. Over the past years, Mariatu has formed a strong bond with him through playing and talking. When he died, in order to cope with her loss, she imagined that Santigie could be a spirit watching over her. “I was walking one day, I thought I could hear his voice calling me. I turned to look, but there was no one there. This happened several times over the next year.” (Kamara 19), mariatu proclaims. These occurrences made Mariatu think that Santigie was truly a spirit looking over her. Mariatu contemplating this assumably helped her cope with her issues by thinking that Santigie is in a better place now, looking over her shoulder.

Mariatu Kamara and Susan McClelland’s co-written non-fictional novel, The Bite of the Mango is a page-turning adventure through the mind of a young girl who struggles with many physical and emotional challenges in her daily life as a poor village girl in Sierra Leone. Mariatu Kamara is an eleven-year-old girl who has learned how to live without her hands. In result of being a victim and survivor of a rebel attack, Mariatu is now a double amputee and has made many lifestyle changes to work around her disability.

On Mango Street, it’s nothing new for kids to jump off a building and end up killing themselves. Rape? That's no big deal it happens all the time. Not only is Mango street like this, but the majority of Southern Chicago is like this. Many people are forced to live in this type of environment because of their economic state. Many people like Esperanza hate the place they live and are desperate for a change. Esperanza knows that there is a little chance of change. Around her she sees people living their suffering lives and not their bright future they had planned. Looking at the people around her makes her want to leave Mango street and start a better life. She knows that if she stays in this neighborhood, she will have a dark future like

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Life is full of many unknowns. It is unknown what will happen tomorrow, what will happen next week, next month, next year, and twenty years from now. Some unknowns are negligible. For instance, like what will be served for dinner next Sunday. But some unknowns are life-changing. Ishmael Beah’s and Mariatu Kamara’s unknowns were the wars that lead to the demolition of their childhoods. But, both fortunate enough to survive their civil wars, Beah and Kamara have written memoirs of their experiences in the war, Beah, as a child soldier in the war, and Kamara, as a child victim of the war. This provides vastly different perspectives, however, due to Ismael Beah’s A Long Way Gone containing more psychological and physical aspects of the war, it

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