Esperanza Character Analysis: The House On Mango Street

All the people on Mango Street were struggling to get by, but they seemed satisfied with just making it. Esperanza was not. There were characters like Esperanza’s mother who was a “smart cookie,” and could’ve been anything, but she let shame get the best of her and dropped out of school. There was also Rafaela who got married before the 8th grade just so she could move into her own house, but her husband never let her leave the house afterward. He never let her see her friends, and the highlight of her week was getting coconut or papaya juice from someone who would send it up in a paper bag attached to a clothespin since she couldn’t leave the house. Lastly, there was the time when she was left stranded by the tilt-a- whirl waiting for a friend that never came back and got molested by a group of boys. The only witnesses were the red clown statues that seemed to be laughing at her. Nevertheless, she let none of this stopped her from going forward and perusing her dream. She still seemed to be struggling with a sense of belonging, but maybe that’s because she didn’t.

I chose this quote because it hints at the stage where Esperanza changes from an adolescent to an adult. When Esperanza is assaulted by a group of boys, and this experience wasn’t how people describe it as. It shows how she is growing up and understanding the pain and anguish that several women in her community had to face. Here, Esperanza has to deal with the loss of innocence while being exposed to the harsh reality of to sexual

This elucidates how the figurative language builds Esperanza's character because it helps the reader better understand her views on life. It explains how she feels about herself and future; she wants to free with no one controlling her to go where she wishes and free of other burdens weighing her down. This also proves that Esperanza feels like she does not have a lot of freedom and opportunities because if she already had freedom, she would not write a poem about it. This is not the only example of figurative language that Cisneros adds into the book. Later, Esperanza explains how she is an ugly daughter and how her mom says that she will become more ladylike as she gets older, and men will start to like her.

She said it was small and the bricks were crumbling. And she didn’t want to be there. Now that Mango Street is her home she tries to understand it more, but she still isn't happy living there. Another problem Esperanza faces is finding herself.

Another example of optimism portrayed by Esperanza was that despite her horrible first experiences with the opposite sex, (as in chapter 21, The First Job and chapter 39, The Red Clowns) she still has dreams of sitting outside at night with her

Esperanza, a strong- willed girl who dreams big despite her surroundings and restrictions, is the main character in The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. Esperanza represents the females of her poor and impoverished neighborhood who wish to change and better themselves. She desires both sexuality and autonomy of marriage, hoping to break the typical life cycle of woman in her family and neighborhood. Throughout the novel, she goes through many different changes in search of identity and maturity, seeking self-reliance and interdependence, through insecure ideas such as owning her own house, instead of seeking comfort and in one’s self. Esperanza matures as she begins to see the difference. She evolves from an insecure girl to a

In conclusion, we know that Esperanza’s negativity of herself begins to slowly change as she slowly experience what accepting means and how she began to accept where she was from . Throughout this book, Cisnero showed us accepting is an important part of growing in life as well as determining the true you. In the beginning she hated her life always wanted to escape out of Mango Street versus the end she says she is going to come back. From the beginning to the end, Esperanza finally accepted where she was from and how Mango Street has developed who she became

Now, Esperanza doesn't plan on taking these societal expectations laying down, and with the support of her community, she can make her dreams come true. She has hopes and dreams that she intends to fulfill, no matter what others want from or for her. She will have get own house, her own job, and her own life,

It is displaying how Esperanza doesn’t have a home and how she will support anyone who will ask for it because she knows how it impacts a person. She doesn’t want anyone else to be impacted in that way like she was.

Esperanza clearly shows a struggle within herself, she is grasping for the person she herself can identify with inside of herself. She wants to be an individual, get lost and her thoughts and find her way to self by telling stories and writing it all down. Making the choice as to

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 began to feel like an outcast, like she was completely alone. She felt absolutely ashamed of who she was. Her identity was lost in her yearn to find comfort in friends to feel as if she belonged. “I want to be like the waves on the sea, like the clouds in the wind, but I’m me. One day I’ll jump out of my skin. I’ll shake

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

One of Esperanza's challenges she faced as a immigrant was discrimination in the U.S,During this time people were unfair toward mexicans. They had something to say about that “Can’t you tell by my clothes I dug ditches”

In Pam Munoz Ryan’s book “Esperanza Rising”, Esperanza discovers a new perspective in life although she faces difficult obstacles. Just like anyone else Esperanza the main character of my book struggles with obstacles in her life. Esperanza finds herself dealing with a lost, but not just any lost her father’s. She has trouble starting over in a country and having a low status. And just when things seem to be stable