Comparison Between 'Monkey Garden And The Red Clown'

What you see may not always be true; sometimes it takes a little bit of thought to correctly process what is in front of you. The House on Mango Street, written by Sandra Cisneros, is centered around a young teenage girl, Esperanza, who is trying to find her identity. While trying to figure out who she is, she meets new women, such as Elenita, and other teenage girls, like Sally and Marin, who play a role in helping Esperanza to reach adulthood. “Red Clowns” is the most important vignette in The House on Mango Street because of how it uses repetition, imagery, and sentence length to show that what they may presume about what they see may not always be true and this idea is illustrated by Esperanza reflecting on her first sexual interaction

In this book I will be explaining the differences the similarities and the conclusion. The differences are not big differences but differences that need to be seen. The book and the movie that I will be comparing are Where the Red Fern Grows published in 1961 and the movie which was out in 1974. They did some changes that probably had to be made to fit the time limit, so it wasn’t to long.I don’t know what the other movie which was published in 2003 is the newest one made. My reading class watched the 1974 version. And I am going to tell you about the differences.

In Hollywood, there have been over forty-two movies made that were based on books, but many times the movies do not live up to their high expectations. The movie, Where the Red Fern Grows, was a movie which did not live up to the high expectations set by the book. The novel, Where the Red Fern Grows, is a story about a country boy named Billy Colman, who hunts coons in the Ozarks with his loyal redbone hounds. It is a story of friendship, love, loyalty, and adventure. However, tragedy strikes and Billy is forced to change from a young boy to a man. In the novel and the movie adapted from it, a plethora of similarities and differences can be discovered.

Two worlds. Two names. One person. In life there are always two sides to a situation, and two sides to a story. Sometimes there are two sides to someone’s life. There is always going to be tension between the two sides to show that every situation is going to have a more and less favorable side, and they are both there to show us who we are. The House on Mango Street is about a girl named Esperanza, and she is trying to find her place on mango street, and her place in life. Her life is impacted, in good ways and bad, by every person that she meets. We follow her, her family, her friends, and others in her journey of living on mango street, and experience her growing, developing, and experiencing the life made for her. In the book The House

For my project I decided to draw a picture of Esperanza’s dream house where she can go to write about her experiences on Mango Street. When I was drawing the picture of the house, I made the house to fit Esperanza’s dream of what will bring her happiness and an inspiration for her passions. This house acts as a safe place where she can write about her true emotions about Mango street. “I put it down on paper and then the ghost does not ache so much. I write it down and Mango says goodbye sometimes. She does not hold me with both arms. She sets me free” (110). This chapter and project reveals Esperanza’s true feelings about Mango Street and how she can make use of those feelings. A deeper meaning that is explored in this chapter is that women do not need a man to be happy and productive because when Esperanza thinks about this house, a man is not in the picture.

The Monkey Garden by Sandra Cisneros tells the story of a young girl’s loss of childhood innocence. The story is narrated by a mature woman remembering her initiation into adolescence through the images and events that occurred in an unused neighborhood lot. She is not ready to mature into adolescence and uses her imagination to transform the lot into a fantasy garden--a place where she can hide from the adult world.

Throughout the novel, “The House on Mango Street”, Esperanza struggles to learn who she really is. At a difficult age of 13, Esperanza is between childhood and adulthood and has to overcome many challenges such as wondering who she is going to become, having judgmental peers, and the very difficult challenge of being poor. While her friends are growing up around her, like Sally, she is left struggling to let go of childhood during this rough time. I think Esperanza begins the book with wanting to grow up, but by the end, her opinion changes. For example, when she sees her friend get married and abused, she no longer wants to grow up into the situation that she originally thought would free her from Mango Street. The red balloon

The highest point of the book is when all of the people in the band Herman E.Calloway realizes that Herman E.Calloway is Bud’s mom’s father. Bud’s mom ran away from Herman E.Calloway when she was 16. She didn’t like him and he was so mean that she wanted to get out of the house and go find a family. They were all shocked and sad when they heard the news of Bud’s mother died 4 years ago. That was the climax for me is was shocking and an exciting part. That is why I chose this part.

The author of Animal Farm, Orwell, tells a story of a farmyard tragedy and the deadly lives of a group of animals. Due to the disappearance of humans, Napoleon abuses his power and gradually transforms into a human. Orwell also used animals to clarify that humans are corrupted due to power. The author of Lord of the Flies, Golding, shows a similar story where it is about life and death situation for a group of lost boys on a island that is trying to establish a democracy while on the island. Both authors of novels, Lord of the Flies and Animal Farm demonstrate the comparison between the theme of human and animal nature in settings where traditional authority absent.

Two worlds. Two names. One person. In life there are always two sides to a situation, and two sides to a story. Sometimes there are two sides to someone’s life. There is always going to be tension between the two sides to show that every situation is going to have a more and less favorable side, and they are both there to show us who we are. The House on Mango Street is about a girl named Esperanza, and she is trying to find her place on mango street, and her place in life. Her life is impacted, in good ways and bad, by every person that she meets. We follow her, her family, her friends, and others in her journey of living on mango street, and experience her growing, developing, and experiencing the life made for her. In the book The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, we follow a constant tension created by the straddle of each character’s two worlds, and how the straddle impacts the character’s lives. This is shown in belonging and not belonging, with Esperanza not wanting to belong to the house on Mango Street, even when she does. When choosing who you are and who you want to be, when Meme wants to choose who he is even though he knows who he is. And finally, the constant tension between innocence and maturity, like when Esperanza and her friends encounter a situation which forces them to increase their maturity.

The House on Mango Street is about Esperanza Cordero's life. It starts when Esperanza is forced to move, she was excited to live in the house of her dreams but was soon let down. The house wasn't huge or white like the perfect ones on tv, which made Esperanza very bitter and unhappy. Throughout the book it shows many of Esperanza's friends and the hope they all have for each other. Esperanza is a very powerful and hopeful person, she's convinced she can stop all the racism, poverty, and the gender separatism in her life and in her neighborhood.

Another time that Esperanza shows change is when, Esperanza goes to get her future read. She goes to see a "witch woman" named Elenita in hope that she sees if anything in her future includes a house. However Elenita only sees "a home in the heart," which causes Esperanza to be disappointed. However this is a turning point for her in the book, because once this happens she begins to accept the fact that the house on mango street is the closes thing she has to a home right now and she begins to accept it. She still dreams of one day of having her dream house on her own when she grows up, however she finally realizes that The House on Mango street is where she is from. It is her home and there is nothing she can do to change this no matter how much she changes as a person the house on Mango street is still her home.

A common theme in House on Mango Street is the struggle of identity. Esperanza has to define herself both as a woman and as an artist, which changes throughout the novel. In the beginning of the novel Esperanza wants to separate herself from her family

In the House on Mango Street Esperanza wrote about the depiction of Sally’s marriage and her motives to do so. Living with her parents was almost as sad as her marriage. Sally was very beautiful and her father believed that “to be this beautiful is trouble” (Cisneros 81). Her family was very strict, especially when it came to religion and boys. Esperanza met Sally at school and quickly realized that Sally is not the same Sally when she goes home from school. She pulls her skirt straight, takes off her eye makeup, her personality changes and walks to her house fast. She is not able to express herself or have her own personality. Sally’s father also hits her very hard and she comes to school with her skin bruised. She's afraid to be in her own

The loss of a child’s innocence is seen in the short story “The Monkey Garden” by Sandra Cisneros. A garden by a little girl’s house that once was her playground is now a place she dreads because her sister, Sally, lost her innocence there. The author creates this loss by using symbolism and simile. The sisters live by a beautiful garden in which they make their playground. One day, the sisters are enjoying their time in the garden, when the boys they play with take Sally’s keys. Sally asks for them back, but the boys say they will only give back the keys if Sally kisses each and every one of them. Although Sally agrees, the little sister does not. She keeps thinking to herself, “It was just a kiss that’s all… only how come