What Are The Similarities Between The House On Mango Street And To Kill A Mockingbird

people and see things from their point of view. Scout learns and understands this lesson firsthand

"She sits at become afraid to go outside". The leave home, she would need permission. She evolves from a victim of child abuse to a slave-like wife. Esperanza sees this despair throughout her story.

Esperanza is new to the neighborhood, and was never proud of her previous houses, but the negative intonation that the nun uses on her makes her feel like she is being judged, not on who she is, but what her family can afford. There is the place Esperanza now has to call home and the degrading presumption that the neighborhood already has causes her to accept that she can’t change her image without money and let her personality shine through. She seems to accept her label as poor in the story, “A Rice Sandwich”, where she believes the special, also known as rich, kids get to eat in the canteen and she wants to be part of that narrative, so she begs her mother for three days, to write her a note to allow her eat in the canteen. When she couldn’t endure her daughter’s nagging anymore, she complied. Thinking this would be enough affirmation, Esperanza went to school the next with the note and stood in the line with the other kids. She wasn’t recognized by the nun who checks the list, and has to face Sister Superior, who claims that she doesn’t live far enough to stay at school and asks Esperanza to show where her house is. “That one? She said, pointing to a row of ugly three -flats, the ones even the raggedy men are ashamed to go into. Yes, I nodded even though I knew that wasn’t my house,”(45). Esperanza was compared to the most raggedy men, and had to accept

With all of the bad things going on around Esperanza, she was very optimistic and made the best of everything she could. For example, in chapter one, Esperanza explain how she and her family had always grown up poor and that they always had dreams of one day owning a big beautiful house like the ones that they saw on television. One with a back yard and a basement. When Esperanza's family was forced to move her parents had purchased the first house that they could afford so they wouldn't have to continue paying rent. The house was nothing like what they had spoke of or dreamt about. But Esperanza states, "I then knew I had to have a house. One I could point to. But this isn't it. The house on Mango Street isn't it. For the time being, Mama said. Temporary, says Papa. But I know how those things go.." Within this paragraph it shows that Esperanza isn't exactly happy about where she is living but she is going to make the best of it and do what she has to do to get out of there and have a house of her own. One that she can point to.

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

reprimand, Atticus tells the children it is wrong to pester and ridicule people, especially someone

I feel like all the women on Mango Street are either sad or upset. For example: In the vignette “My name ,“ the reader can infer that they are all sad or upset because it says “She looked out the window her whole life, the way so many women sit their sadness on an elbow” (10). This demonstrates what I mean by all the women are sad or upset. I wonder why all the women are sad or upset because it’s their life can’t they change it and make themselves happy? In the vignette “ Marin,”it says “ Marin...is waiting for a car to stop, a star to fall, someone to change her life”(27). How Marin says she is waiting for someone to change her life I don’t understand why she can’t get out and try to find someone who can change her life. This shows that they

She learns that, with family, there is always the one person who uses it as an excuse to be a “know-it-all.” Her Aunt Alexandra, for example, says, “Just what I said. Grandma says it’s bad enough he lets you all run wild, but now he’s turned out a nigger-lover we’ll never be able to walk the streets of Maycomb agin. He’s ruinin’ the family, that’s all he’s doin’”(110). Her Aunt is judgmental and, because Atticus is her brother, thinks she can say/do what she wants.

By doing this, Scout matures. She is no longer the impetuous girl who would hasten to beat up Cecil Jacobs. So in that way, she has grown up.

By the end of the three years covered in this book, Scout has grown and matured more than any other character. Through becoming more aware of the world around her, she learns to distinguish what is right and wrong. Respect of other people and their feelings develop into a clearer concept for her as well. She understands life better and acts more appropriate as a result. Scout becomes all around a more adult-like human

Scout relies heavily on her father Atticus to explain new concepts to her, and many of them revolve around very grown up issues that she is just barely grasping. For example, racism is very prevalent in Maycomb, and Mrs. Dubose is a fine representation of the racists in the town. She is an irritable, cranky old woman that constantly belittles the Finch children. It is clear she hates African Americans as she says, "Yes indeed, what has this world come to when a Finch goes against his raising? I 'll tell you!" She put her hand to her mouth. When she drew it away, it trailed a long silver thread of saliva. "Your father 's no better than the n**gers and trash he works for!" (Lee 135). She first heard the slur "n**ger" being used by her cousin Francis, when he called her father a "n**ger lover" (Lee 110). She is extremely upset by it as she can tell it is an insult, although she is unaware of the meaning. Her confusion is

Atticus tries to lecture the children the Finch ancestry but fails and makes Scout cry

Over the course of this book, Scout is a character that changes significantly in the way she thinks. Her way of thinking changes because she has many encounters that has, in a way, forced her to have to adjust her way of approaching situations. One of the main ones, for example, is that she learns to be calm instead of fighting.

The book is written in Scout’s point of view. Unlike many of Scout’s peers, she has been

* Scout’s moral development throughout To Kill a Mockingbird has to do with how she is taught to see “the other”, her exposure to racism and injustice, and that she had Atticus as a parent to guide her through her childhood. These factors together create a stable learning environment for Scout to grow and develop in.