House On Mango Street Quotes

In the book The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, the protagonist realizes many things in chapter, The Monkey Garden. Ms, Cisneros uses imagery to contribute to the story by setting the scene for us. “Yellow spiders ran when… so many crusty lady bugs.” The quote shows us the garden the protagonist loves. It demonstrates to us, that even though it is full of bugs, she loves it.

Someone’s outward appearance never fully shows their true self. Sandra Cisneros uses the novella, The House on Mango Street, to show that people need to be accepting of themselves. Esperanza does not see the good things in herself. She tries really hard, but can not find them. She later learns that she is perfect just the way she is. Esperanza’s negative view on herself slowly changes as she begins to focus on her larger community and her place within it. Through this, Cisneros shows that knowing and accepting where one comes from is an important part of growing up and determining one’s identity.

This is an Assignment For my 9th-grade literacy class. We had to make a thematic statement on the Book The House on Mango Street” written by Sandra Cisneros. My thematic statement is Be careful because the worst can happen to the best of us. This is Relevant to us because It's true. The people Going through the recent hurricanes they didn't deserve to be ripped from their homes. Every 100 Seconds One American Is Assaulted. None of them deserved this a good portion of them are underage.

Have you ever felt like the place you belonged to didn’t belong to you? In The House on Mango Street, this is how the main character, Esperanza, felt. The author, Sandra Cisneros, did a good job in portraying a girl who couldn’t find her place. She had a problem accepting where she was from, The House on Mango Street is heartfelt novel and is great to pass the time. In this story, you will be shown the lives of Esperanza, her sister Nenny, their two best friends Rachel and Lucy, and the many people who lived on Mango Street. This book is about a girl who went from denying her place to accepting it.

In today’s world there are countless social problems. People are often treated as an inferior or as if they are less important for many different reasons. In The House on Mango Street, the author Sandra Cisneros addresses these problems. Throughout the story Cisneros does a thorough job explaining and showing how these issues affect the public. This novel is written through the eyes of a young girl, Esperanza, growing up in a poor neighborhood where the lifestyles of the lower class are revealed. Cisneros points out that, in today’s society, the expectation of women and their treatment, discrimination based on poverty, and discrimination because of a person’s ethnicity are the major

At first, we examine Responsibility which is shown in both books such as “Bloodline” and “The House on Mango Street” in such a way all the problems revolve around it, that is to say the sense of responsibility is present in all the situations that the characters live in and it constitutes one of the most important challenge to overcome in the life as presented by the Sandra Cisneros and Gaines. Responsibility is also addressed as a way of facing the duties or sometime as an inevitable fate which some characters understand early they cannot do anything but adapt it to overcome and achieve their obligation. However according to this situation of responsibility it will be necessary to analyze some aspects about the responsibility attitude as presented

Cathy, a non-Latino girl, is the first person to befriend Esperanza on Mango Street. This quote reflects the racism theme of this novel because Cathy notes that her family is moving away because they blame the Latinos for making their neighborhood bad (the neighborhood was probably more Caucasian in the past). It also shows the way other cultures look down on the Latino people even though everyone living on Mango Street is on practically the same economic/social status.

Have you ever gone out and felt attractive, and wondered what others thought of you? Did this thought ever make you think things like, what is this guy or woman thinking of me? This thought is one that slowly takes away what makes you innocent. In Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street, she writes an upsetting coming of age story that shows the progression of young Esperanza as she loses her innocence. The first time Esperanza

Lindsey Rietzsch once said “A negative attitude drains, a positive attitude energizes.” This quote means that having a negative attitude lowers your self versus having a positive attitude where is actually increases attitude and it energizes you by inspiring you. “The House on Mango Street” sets up in Chicago, where the narrator(Esperanza) lives on Mango Street. The House on Mango Street that Esperanza lives in is really bad condition and old. It is so small that the narrator has to share beds in the same room with her family. Esperanza begins to lower her self esteem because she does not like where she lives and every time when some asks, “Where do you live?” She wants a real house that she could point to and she thinks the House On Mango street is not. But later, along the times, Esperanza’s negativity of herself begins to slowly change by looking at nature and take a closer look at the environment she lives in. Cisnero shows that knowing and being able to accept where our background is from is an important part of growing in life also as determining the real you.

This quote intrigues me because it makes me connect to the author about life today. In this chapter Cathy shows who the truly is as a person. She thinks that just because Rachel and Lucy “smell” or look different than she does that Esperanza should not be friends with them. She does this quite often. I can infer this because of the author’s use of a simile. Cathy makes fun of her neighbors trying to act like she is better than them in a way. However, I think this quote shows Esperanzas true self. No matter what Cathy says about Rachel and Lucy, she likes them and no matter what they look like, she wants to be friends with them. This is a lot like today's society. There are some people who judge people on their looks, but, like Esperanza, there

The novel, The House on Mango Street, focuses on a young girl who strives to figure out her identity. She continuosly struggles to find her confidence, along with who she is. People tend to struggle with self-acceptance due to society. Society analyzes each person and dissects every one of their flaws, making them want to change themselves to fit expectations. Moving to her new home, Esperanza began to spend all of her time embarrassed. She was ashamed of her new home, and also uncomfortable with her outside appearance. She felt as if her outside didn’t convey the true personality hidden inside her. All Esperanza understood was that she didn’t fit in, and that she is different. Esperanza tries to find the person she truly wants to

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros is a coming of age novel of a young Mexican-American girl developing in a working class Chicago neighborhood. The author is much like the main character Esperanza in many different ways. One being that Cisneros was also a Mexican-American girl growing up in a Chicago working class neighborhood. Esperanza is a foil of Cisneros’ beliefs and opinions of her Mexican culture and heritage. While Esperanza is embarrassed of being a Mexican-American around white Americans, Cisneros is proud to be a Mexican-American girl. In Sara Rimer’s article, “San Antonio Journal; Novelist’s Purple

Everyone has challenges in their life, their feelings behind their actions make them who they are. In the novel The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros there are many conflicts which explore the characters, to get to know them closer. The internal conflict is used to discover the identity of the main character, Esperanza.

The thesis is “in my wanderings I attack it [poverty] wherever I can-in barrios, slums and favelas. The audience can be anybody but probable specifically targeted those who never ever were in poverty. The tone is serious and sad. My thoughts about this essay are it puts a grim and stark reality of the people who live in poverty and the hardship they have to live with every second. Even though Flavio, when he was 12-years-old boy was extremely sick and hungry had to work extremely hard all day just so his family lives with knowing he was going to die soon but instead worrying about his sibling’s health. The story of Flavio made the rich and blessed realize the pain and anguish people under poverty have to go through each second of their lives

Through this poem, the poet wanted to convey is that , there are people who face racial discrimination, but he/she should not give up, you should fight for your rights . This poem is a voice against racial discrimination in America, and it conveys, deep feelings of the