House On Mango Street Quotes With Page Numbers

Question #1: Explain how the house on Mango Street is different from the other places Esperanza has lived.

“They will not know I have gone away to come back. For the ones I left behind. For the ones who cannot out.” ( chapter 44, page 110.) “ The House on Mango Street,” by Sandra Cisneros is a classic book in which discusses coming-of- age. Esperanza who's a Latina girl growing up in Chicago, struggles to define herself and underscore her every encounter and actions. Also, Esperanza identity changes over the course of the novel. In the beginning of the novel Esperanza wants to change her name into Zeze the X so she can define herself on her own terms, instead of accepting a name that express her family heritage. Esperanza wants to

In The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, Esperanza’s name causes her to feels trapped and hopeful for a new identity. When Esperanza says “I have inherited her name, but I don’t want to inherit her place by the window” (Page 11) in My Name. The quote is talking about how even though Esperanza shares a name with her great-grandma she does not want to share her sadness in life. This quote is important because Esperanza feels trapped because of many different things including her name and her social economic status. However, her name is something she can never really get away from unless she goes through the difficult process of changing.

A Japanese proverb says, ¨Fall down 7 times, stand up 8¨. This quote is suppose to mean how when everything that has happened to Cole, he still manages to try again. Cole is a 15 year old boy who has been getting into trouble for more than half of his life. He beat up a classmate and robbed a hardware store. His bad behavior brought him to either jail or banished to an island. His actions could affect his life forever. Cole should return to the island because he is becoming more trusting and trustworthy, he wants better for his future, and he is becoming more reflective.

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.

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

In the novel The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, the residents of Mango street interact in a way to help one another get free from their lives, they try to build their own appearance through interactions, and their interactions are mired with shame. The children of Mango street play together constantly, and through their playing they symbolize trying to break from their current life, evident when Cisneros writes, “This is the tree we chose for the First Annual Tarzan Jumping Contest. Meme won. And broke both arms” (22). This quote shows how they children play and how the children do what they can to have fun and fly away, shown how Meme failed to fly, breaking his arms.

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.

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.

1) Tita was born to serve her Mama Elena until her death, in which affected her deeply. These emotions of hatred for such stupid tradition made her life worst ever since he met Pedro. After the death of Mama Elena, Tita began to realize that hers and her family's value and honor wasn't what people thought, but more as a mess. She strongly opposed the tradition idea that Rosaura had in mind for Esperanza, she said,"There's one thing for sure, I'm not going to allow you to poison your daughter with those sick ideas you have in your head. I'm not going to let you ruin her life either, forcing her to follow some stupid tradition,"(pg 215). She doesn't want Esperanza to suffer the same misery that she felt.

The ending of The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros, is very effective for two main reasons. The last chapter of the novel, titled “Mango Says Goodbye Sometimes,” summarizes everything Esperanza has learned throughout her time living on Mango Street, and explains her plans for the future. The reader learns that she no longer wants to leave Mango Street forever; rather, she says she will have “gone away to come back.” This leads to the other reason the ending is very effective. The ending demonstrates just how much Esperanza has changed throughout her childhood, showing that she has gone from a young girl whose only wish is to escape Mango Street and the poverty that comes with it to a young woman who plans on going back to where she

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

Throughout The House on Mango Street Esperanza learns to resist the gender norms that are deeply imbedded in her community. The majority of the other female characters in the novel have internalized the male viewpoint and they believe that it is their husbands or fathers responsibility to care for them and make any crucial decisions for them. However, despite the influence of other female characters that are “immasculated”, according to Judith Fetterley, Esperanza’s experiences lead her to become a “resisting reader” in Fettereley’s terminology because she does not want to become like the women that she observes, stuck under a man’s authority. She desires to leave Mango Street and have a “home of her own” so that she will never be forced

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

By the end of the story, Esperanza accepted the fact that she lived on Mango Street even though she never felt she belonged. She learned that even though she may leave Mango Street, Mango street would never leave her. In the chapter titled, The Three Sisters, who happened to be fortune tellers, they told her that she would one day get her big house and a better