Esperanza's Coming Of Age In The House On Mango Street

A boy comes up to ask her to dance and she declines, still focusing on how her feet don’t fit her shoes. Later, however, she is forced to dance with her Uncle Nacho and she notices that, “All night the boy who is a man watches me dance. He watched me dance” (48). The boy she declined watched her dance gracefully with her uncle and this made her feel unconformable. It seems she is just understanding what girls, or women, represent to boys, or men. She doesn’t need to be told because she is now more aware. There is a feeling that she doesn’t like it and it makes her more self conscious of how she looks, but that comes with growing up. In the last vignette, “Hips,” Esperanza is connecting the information she has been told by Alicia to her new experiences. Esperanza continues to inform everyone else what she has learned, saying, “They bloom like roses. They just one day open. Just like that. One day you might decide to have kids, and then where are you going to put them? Got to have room. Bones got to give”

TS: Esperanza changes emotionally once she begins to like boys, particularly a boy in her neighborhood, Sire.

Esperanza has a variety of female role models in her life. Many are trapped in abusive relationships, waiting for others to change their live. A female role model or friends seems to be important to Esperanza. Some of the women that are her role models are, Esperanza's great-grandmother, Marin, and Rafaela. Even though she may not have known these women very well they still impacted her life immensely , some showed the way that Esperanza did not want to live in her life to information about boys she found interesting.

"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.

Imagine feeling like you don’t belong and never will, or that the odds of your success is a slim chance to none. The House on Mango Street written by Sandra Cisneros, leads us into a world of poverty, broken dreams, and slithers of hope. The House on Mango Street follows the life of a young girl by the name of Esperanza Cordero, who occupies her childhood in an indigent Latino neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois. The books expresses her dire need to have a place where she can call home, and escape the harsh reality of her expected life. Though, her life on Mango Street is bearable with help of her little sister Nenny, her two best friends Rachel and Lucy, and her other friend Sally. On her journey to adulthood, Sandra Cisneros will show how Esperanza assimilates into a mature young lady, who truly find her identity, and develops emotionally as well as physically.

Lots of things can change when era changes except gender roles but after read this story, gender roles are changing distinctly than others. Even though it has changed a lot now, woman still has difficulty with when they get a job so we must strive until the equality of man and woman is evenly distributed. Esperanza make effort to improve her life and cultivate own self but not make effort to gender equality. She has interest in gender role but not that much so she think about it but not to act. From this essay, I have gave examples of how people might react to the idea about gender roles. However, we need to realize that women should take action for themselves instead of following

Throughout the course of Mango Street, Esperanza’s relationship towards her house change. As time passes her feelings about the house itself change and the emotional impact of the house of her changes as well. Esperanza’s house on Mango Street symbolizes her Mexican culture. For so long she has wanted to leave it. She envisions a different type of life than what she is used to - moving from house to house. “this house is going to be different / my life is going to be different”. One can look at all the things she envisions - the "trappings of the good life" such as the running water, the garden etc. as symbols for the new life.

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

This relates to the theme of the struggle for self definition, because at first Esperanza was under the impression she could change a man, but as she’s exposed to these horrible encounters she comes to the conclusion that boys and girls live in different worlds.

Esperanza is able to look at her great grandmother and realize what she does not want to become, but also she realizes what she does want: to become a strong, independent woman.

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

Living on Mango Street was not the ideal home for Esperanza and her family. Saying there was tough at times, but living there enabled Esperanza to become a confident, young women; capable of achieving her dreams. From being a little girl to becoming a strong, independent women, Mango Street has changed Esperanza for the better.

Gender role is represented as a social construction in The House on Mango Street. Men are depicted as a solid figure and are looked as a primary force while women are looked down upon and are treated as a sex object. Out of all the female character in the novel, Esperanza is distinctive. She does not see a future where she is subject to anybody. She has interminable dreams of her own. Her dreams of “having a house of her own” (pg. 4) starts at a very young age. As she moves into the new neighborhood in the Mango Street, she gets baffled since it is not the house her parents talked about and also not the real one’s she has seen on

She was taught by Marin about fundamental facts related to boys. She also experienced sexual awakening when exploring the neighborhood in high-heeled shoes and therefore quickly learned that the society when she is living denied the role of women. In fact, women in her society are treated unfairly as men use force to take what they do not want to give willingly like the bum man that attempts to kiss Rachel or the Oriental man forcing Esperanza to kiss on her first day of the job. Women are also left with the responsibilities to raise children by themselves like Rosa Vargas, some have their fates decided to stay behind the rolling pin or spend whole life in the factories like Alicia. Moreover, Esperanza morally develops from desiring to escape from the Mango Street into becoming familiar with her neighborhood, and she accepts her place as a part of the community that she is even afraid whenever she is in other places. There is also a revolution in her writing ability as it is improved from loosely linked parts of daily life observation to more logical

In the chapter, The House on Mango Street, Esperanza has a very negative and unsatisfied outlook on her life, mainly centered around her house. She wishes and dreams for a life in which she can live without feeling ashamed or embarrassed about what neighborhood her house was in. Her parents told her “ For the time being… (and) temporary“ (5) when they moved into the shabby and crowded house on Mango Street. Esperanza has grown accustomed to a life where she has been let down and disappointed, this shapes her attitude towards Mango Street and her personal viewing of herself. Esperanza is a character where the way she feels about herself is based upon the opinions of others and judgemental nuns, for example have put her into a place where she feels insecure and dissatisfied about her family and where they live.In Chanclas Esperanza receives shiny new clothes that boost her confidence until she realizes that her shoes remain shabby. In this chapter, we see the recurring theme of Esperanza's dissatisfaction, even though she receives more than she had before. During the dance, she forgets she is wearing ordinary shoes (47) and by having a good time with her family, she is satisfied in the moment. This