Esperanza Character Analysis: The House On Mango Street

Growing up as a child in a poor family, Esperanza Cordero was very ambitious. She was ashamed of her family and her house, and she always had dreams of one day having a beautiful house on a hill, with flowers all around. A house she wouldn't be ashamed to point to and say it was hers. She knew

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”

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.

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

Esperanza comes to accept her house as part of her. During the course of the book she learns, you can't leave your culture, your roots. She observes and experiences growth. She matures. She develops opinions about dress and dating. She becomes more aware about the behaviors of people around her - she develops her sense of right and wrong. In the end, when she writes that she will "leave but come back for some" . she shows that she has become more comfortable with who she is. She does not reject her culture entirely - there are aspects of it that she embraces. She will always return to the

Esperanza is not comfortable with exposing her friend Sally and portraying her as an object, but no other women care about it. She decided to take matters into her own hands but only ended getting laughed at. She was not ready to be developed sexually and would rather remain at a slow pace. This idea is different compared to many women in her society who are ok with being mistreated like this.

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

In the beginning of the book, Esperanza talks about the meaning of her name and how she feels about it. She tells how her name sounds like when you say it; it sounds like “...the Mexican records my [Esperanza’s] father plays on Sunday mornings when he is shaving, songs like sobbing," (Cisneros 10). Here, Esperanza uses the sense of sound to describe her name like the sound of sad songs and dreary long sobs. The sensory detail of describing the name like music or a sound helps the reader "hear" the sounds and understand the way that Esperanza feels about her name. This detail illustrates how Esperanza thinks of her name as something sad and dreary as opposed to a beautiful or bright and happy name.

Esperanza has a variety of female role models in her life. Many are trapped in abusive relationships, waiting for others to change their live. Esperanza had many struggles in her life, not growing up where and how she wanted to so role models were very important to her. These role models showed her the way she didn't

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,

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

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

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

Esperanza always wanted to change her name, she felt it didn’t define the real her. “I would like to baptize myself under a new name, a name more like the real me, the one nobody sees” (111).This quote is the

Esperanza was a little girl who always felt like she was destined to have more than what she had, which, quite frankly wasn’t a lot. She