Esperanza's Use Of Personification In The House On Mango Street

As the book progresses, Esperanza witnesses the emerging sexuality of her peers and begins to encounter her own sexuality, too. This is a confusing state to be in, and Cisneros captures the confusion by blending these moments of sexual exploration with the brutality of gendered violence. Men beat their wives and daughters, and in most cases the sexual encounters in The House on Mango Street are unwanted. The boys and men of this book tend to take things, while the girls and women deal with the consequences. Esperanza knows all this already, and it contributes greatly to her desire to

Although Esperanza grew up in a very poverty stricken neighborhood, she didn’t let that define her as an adult and was able to be successful later on in life. Esperanza grew up in a place that was very looked down upon. On page 5, Esperanza was asked by a nun where she lived. After pointing to her house, the nun responded “You live there?” She was not only in an area that was clearly not nice, but she was also judged and she felt embarrassed about it. People who even just drove through her underprivileged neighborhood think of Esperanza and her neighbors as “dangerous. They think [they] will attack them with shiny knives. They are stupid people who got lost here by mistake” (18). This neighborhood wasn’t the type of place people wanted to be near or in. It was so run-down and such a seemingly threatening place, people would be scared just

Self-exploration is hindered in this book and my life. I can very much identify with Esperanza perspectives on societal issues that Latin women face. A society dominated by men and women relying on them, whether it is a father, spouse or friend. Men are considered the strong reasonable as where women are weak and emotional, in turn women need men for protection. A young girl may have two story paths, one where she relies on the protection of her father while she watches her mother cater to him or two, witnesses the struggles of a single young woman and absence for a father. This book describes marriage as priority for every girl or else how could she survive; appearances and physical features are highly valued traits. This attitude is not one that Esperanza agrees with, nor do I. For example, Marin she is the girl standing on the street just “waiting for a car to stop, a star to fall, someone to change her life.” This character implies that she does not dream of actively setting life goals for herself and working to earn them, instead she will wait until a man makes it happen for her. The ideology behind this thought being that as a woman she must thrive to be as attractive as possible to heighten her chances of marriage and acquire

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”

That is to say Esperanza considers her sister as her first responsibility outside home. A s we can see the author of the book presents “Mango Street” as a district that one can compare to a jungle in which the influences are coming from everywhere that is the raison why Esperanza is obliged to take his sister like her friend just to look after her.

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

"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.

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

Esperanza’s sexuality and sexual experiences are developing as she continues to grow. In the chapter “Sally”, Esperanza learns a lot about sexual behavior. Sally represents what a “pretty” girl is. Esperanza pays attention to some details about Sally. Esperanza notices how Sally dresses more provocative than other girls.

She doesn’t let men rule over her. In this vignette thou, Esperanza doesn’t agree that hips were made to do “womanly” things. As stated in the quote that says “Hips are good for holding a baby when you’re cooking.” Women have hips to hold babies and do other things women are expected to do. For example, women are expected to pick up the plates and clean the table after everyone is done eating. “I am the one who leaves the table like a man, without putting back the chair or picking up the plate.” Here Esperanza is making a statement. She isn’t doing things women are expected to do. By defying this “rule”, Esperanza is showing that she is different and she doesn’t believe that men should be the dominant gender role.

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.

The polarizing thing about Sally is she herself is enduring a hardship of her own. Esperanza can empathize with how women should be able to freely do as they wish. She is a family women like so many throughout the novel, continuing to persevere on. However, Sally is kept captive by her abusive relationship nonetheless. To the point where her own environment and outer surroundings induce and strike fear. Actually, she is afraid to “look out her own window” (102). In essence, her soft feelings convey the reality of the situation. Not being able to be independent and forge one’s destiny is quite scary indeed. Her incessant fear to creep out of the vale of a toxic relationship represents the inferiority of women in a

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

But she is a very lonely person, she can't seem to find someone who fully understands her. She was alone in the monkey garden, she was alone at the fair, she was just alone. After Lucy left the picture, Sally came in. Esperanza basically was in Aw over Sally, wanting to know how Sally did her eye makeup, where Sally got her jacket and nylons from and if they were expensive. In that chapter the reader really sees Esperanza trying to be someone different than herself. Sally eventually became Esperanza's best friend, the one she was waiting for. The Monkey Garden, Sally was waiting outside looking mad because some punk kids “stole” her keys. The boys were there with Sally, and Esperanza felt out of place. She wanted to be with the other kids, it didn’t feel right to be in this group. Somethings went down, and Esperanza was really just out of it. She was back in the Monkey Garden, under a tree wishing it could all just end. She felt alone under the tree, “I looked at my feet in their white socks and ugly round shoes. They seemed far away. They didn’t seem to be my feet anymore. And the garden that had been such a good place to play didn’t seem to be mine either.” Esperanza felt so completely alone in this moment, so alone she wanted her life to end. She felt so out of place in the world. She felt that the garden, her special place, wasn’t even hers anymore. Red Clowns, at the fair Esperanza was

Marriage is mentioned a lot in this novel, she tells how her friend gets married to get away from her family, resulting in her becoming sheltered, unable to have any type of relationship, or freedom outside her home. Her friend Sally married an older man, because she wanted to escape the abuse she received from her father because of her beauty. In doing so she now is unable to have a social life other than being a house wife whose job is known to cook, clean, and make sure that everything is satisfactory for her husband. Since Sally’s husband was said to become violent at times she had to do what her husband wanted her to do. It looks as if she really didn’t escape anything at all, just put into a different situation with another man. Then you have her friend Minerva whom is a teenage mother and has fallen accustom to her husband deserting her and coming back along with beating her as well. Which she also mentioned that with her husband continually leaving, Minerva is a single mother just as her mother was. Here both these young girls are experiencing life as a full-grown adult, however they both do not know how to escape these issues they have put themselves in whether they wanted to or not. Esperanza is the person looking in on the outs and she can see that, that is not the life she wants for herself and though she wants to help them both she can’t because she does not know how, and neither do they.