Essay on Analysis of The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

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.

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.

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

Esperanza had always desired a new home, but realizes Mango Street will always be a part of her. “I knew then I had to have a house. A real house. One I could point to. But this isn’t it” (5). At first Esperanza wanted an escape from Mango Street, she was embarrassed of where she came from. But as she grows as a person and is exposed to devastations in other people's lives around her, she realizes something much more ugly than just the looks of Mango Street. “You must keep writing. It will keep you free, and I said yes, but at that time I didn’t know what she meant” (61). Writing kept Esperanza free, and helped her cope with her problems. Esperanza later perceives why her aunt wanted her to continue writing, because not everyone had something to set them free from Mango Street. “They will not know I have gone away to come back. For the ones who cannot out”(110). Instead of leaving to never return, Esperanza realizes the women in her community have it

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.

Esperanza is a shy but a very bright girl. She dreams of the perfect home now, with beautiful flowers in their luscious garden and a room for everyone to live in comfortably all because of the unsatisfied face the nun made that one afternoon--when she moves to the house of Mango Street. She thinks it’s going to be a “grand house on a hill that will have a bedroom for everyone and at least three washrooms so when they took a bath they would not have to tell everybody.” (Cinceros 4) Reality is so different for her when her dream is shot down in a heartbeat when she

Esperanza, a naïve thirteen-year-old girl is the main character on The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. I believe Esperanza will eventually leave Mango Street for a better and safer home. Throughout the book she kept saying she wanted to leave. She also brings up that she will not forget where she grew up. Esperanza starts out as a selfish girl and goes into a mature girl in the end, which makes me believe she will leave Mango Street.

The House on Mango Street is written by Sandra Cisneros. This book is a realistic fiction coming of age novel. The read is about a young woman named Esperanza who hopes and dreams of one day moving away from the poor community of Mango Street. This street is full of many pitiful apartments, many foreigners from other countries, and packed tight with trouble. As she faces the journey to one day leave this sorrowful street she comes to realize it will always be apart of her by the end of the story.

In the story “The House on Mango Street” by Sandra Cisneros it follows Esperanza a young twelve year old Chicana (Mexican American girl) who struggles to define herself; also, experiences sexual adversity which she overcomes with her passion of writing. Esperanza must define herself as a woman and her awareness changes over the course of the novel. Esperanza the novel’s hero and narrator is an aspiring writer who wishes to have a home of her own. Also, the story captures a year in her life as she matures emotionally and sexually. Rachel and Lucy Esperanza’s best friends are Mexican-American sisters who live across the street from Esperanza. Lucy the older sister was born in Texas while Rachel the younger one was born in Chicago. Sally is a young girl Esperanza befriends the same year she moves to Mango Street. Sally and Esperanza are the same age, but Sally is sexually and mentality mature which is what Esperanza likes about her. She doesn’t appreciate Esperanza’s friendship often ditching her to run away with the local boys. Her father physically abuses her, so she runs away before the eighth grade to marry a man who treats her miserably. Esperanza feels protective of Sally.

“And the thought of the mayor coming to Mango Street makes me laugh out loud. Who’s going to do it? Not the mayor,” (Cisneros 107). Esperanza has a variety of different female role models. All of her role models contribute to their life on Mango Street in a variety of ways.

Esperanza’s home is burnt down right after the death of her father. Her family is overwhelmed at the loss, all except her Uncle who wants Esperanza’s mother to marry him. The changes from this point on are dramatic and Esperanza is pulled along in a tide of world changing events. Her mother and Grandmother try to help her understand that they have to be strong and do what they have to do, to survive. At first, Esperanza feels hopeless and sad for her life, wanting to act as she always has, she resist’s changing. While her outlook on the world stays the same, the world does not. Esperanza’s grandmother tries different ways to make her understand that she will have to adapt to the changes she is facing and overcome them, finally showing her with an unfinished blanket with a zigzag pattern. Her Grandmother explains that life is full of ups and downs, just like the blanket she is teaching her to

Esperanza, a young girl is a narrator of The House on Mango Street (Cisneros, 1954). Since she was very young, her family have moved place a lot as much as she does not remember where she used to live. This story talk about houses she used to live and house she and her family desire to live in. The main character is Esperanza, and the narrator is also she. The author uses first person point of view in this story.

Since its publication in 1984, The House on Mango Street grows in popularity within inner-city grade schools to universities across the country -- it is a coming of age tale for a Mexican-American girl named Esperanza Cordero living in a fictional poor neighborhood in Chicago called Mango Street. Though it is called a novel, Cisneros creates The House on Mango Street with forty-four vignettes that thoughtfully depicts Chicano culture and what are the roles of women in this society; as Esperanza observes different characters in each vignette, she understands that the same force that ensnares Esperanza to Mango Street is the same force that encourages Esperanza’s desire to leave Mango Street. Cisneros uses Esperanza as a vehicle to go

The House on Mango Street (1984) by Sandra Cisneros is a novel like no other. Sandra Cisneros through a clever writing style shows us the society through a character by the name Esperanza Cordero. A wide range of themes is brought to light, from racism all the way to gender roles. Cisneros employs vignettes to show society from different points of view, among them Sally and Marin. Racism, gender roles, and classism are classic themes in any novel.

Cisneros' The House on Mango Street is a novel about the importance of not forgetting where you come from. Esperanza, a young Latino girl and the story's main character, wants to