House On Mango Street Syntax

Growing up on Mango Street, girls had to take two steps backward to take one forward. Just like ballroom dancing, women let men take the lead and sacrifice an extra step to continue moving on the floor. When Sally escaped from her father and married the marshmallow salesman, she had to give up her youth and femininity.

In "House on Mango Street," Sandra Cisneros utilizes syntax in order to convey a young, wise, omniscient narrator, who sees everything from her own eyes and describes it by conveying her way of looking at the world. Esperanza doesn't use big words and her sentences are short and choppy, yet they don't read uneducated as do the other characters in the novel. Instead, they read like a child. This is Sandra Cisneros' way of reminding the audience that Esperanza is a child despite the wisdom and self reflection each vignette is overflowing with. Furthermore, syntax, like repetition and short sentences, transforms the passage into a lyrical, easy read; "No speak English, no speak English, and bubbles into tears" (77). "House in Mango Street" is

In The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisernos, the main character, Esperanza, goes from having a negative outlook on life to a positive one. Many difficult situations Esperanza faces show her changing perspective on the world around her. An example of Esperanza’s negativity is her feelings towards her home. Esperanza and her family move into a new house, on the not-so perfect, Mango Street. Esperanza has this dream of a “...white [house] with trees around it, a great big yard and grass growing without a fence” (70), but, “The house on Mango Street isn’t it” (73). The home she lives in is described as being “...small and red with tight steps in front and windows so small you’d think they were holding their breath. Bricks are crumbling in places, and the front door is so swollen you have to push hard to get in” (49).

This elucidates how the figurative language builds Esperanza's character because it helps the reader better understand her views on life. It explains how she feels about herself and future; she wants to free with no one controlling her to go where she wishes and free of other burdens weighing her down. This also proves that Esperanza feels like she does not have a lot of freedom and opportunities because if she already had freedom, she would not write a poem about it. This is not the only example of figurative language that Cisneros adds into the book. Later, Esperanza explains how she is an ugly daughter and how her mom says that she will become more ladylike as she gets older, and men will start to like her.

In the vignette “Beautiful and Cruel”, Cisneros uses syntax to help establish the insecurities and lack of self-confidence that Esperanza has about herself. The vignette is toward the end of the book, from this we know how much self-confidence Esperanza is lacking. Cisneros starts to Establish Esperanza’s character by how insecure she is by comparing her to her sister. This shows that Esperanza is a little jealous of her sister and is shown when she talks about how Nenny is the pretty one and can get away with allot of things. Nenny wants to pick her husband and she can say that because she looks the way she does. Esperanza has decided that she doesn’t want a husband because she thinks that because the way she thinks because of the way she

Throughout the book Cisneros employs idiomatic phrases that increases brevity of writing and express various meanings. For example the phrase, ¨But I know how those things go. [5]. Esperanza does not believe that her house on mango street will disappear from her life. Although her parents say it is only ¨ẗemporary¨, in her head she is articulating and considering if her parents really mean what they said. This may have occurred previously multiple times in her life where her parents say that their current house is temporary and a better house will come later. Yet they still have not achieved the house they desire. The author shows the readers that Esperanza is intellectual as she contains the ability to foreshadow future events based on

Cisneros use of wistful diction to prove a certain point in the vignette “Marin”, from The House on Mango Street, enforces the idea of, as a woman, having to wait on others to move forward in her own life. The theme is evident when Marin wants to “ get a real job downtown” where she can look nice and wear make-up and “ live in a big house far away” (Cisneros 26), and would rather strive to reach her dreams of marrying a rich man she meets in Chicago, than to move back to Puerto Rico where her fiance is. The nostalgic message behind the plotline reveals how looking nice and living in a large house are a part of what women have to wait for until a man can provide them with those articles. This use of wistful word choice, also known as diction,

In all aspects of life, women are pressured to be someone they are not. They are put in situations that force them to chose a path of life. In “The House on Mango Street”, Esperanza is forced to think about leaving Mango Street in the future, because she is surrounded by women who are pushing her to become an adult.

That’s very good, she said in her tired voice. You just remember to keep writing, Esperanza. You must keep writing. It will keep you free, and I said yes, but at that time I didn’t know what she meant.” This describes Aunt Lupe’s reaction to Esperanza reading to her from her own writings. I think this scene was written into the novel by Cisneros to show an opportunity for Esperanza, to give her hope. It shows a positive mood in the story at a depressing time. You really start connecting more with Esperanza and how she views life because of how the vignette talks about her relationship with Aunt Lupe. Esperanza gains some confidence and hope when she hears that writing can provide a sense of freedom from her trapped life. “Born Bad” makes me think about how the life Esperanza is living isn’t under her control and it’s sad that due to her gender she is treated as lesser of a person, but here she realizes she may have some

The Novel, The House on Mango Street, was based on the writer Sandra Cisneros. She was writing this when she was living in Chicago. She was like Esperanza. She want though poverty. She has been heartbroken and deeply joyous. She inventing for herself who and what she will become. This is the life of Esperanza Cordero and based on Sandra Cisneros to all women out 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

Many people want a certain lifestyle. A well-built house, a supporting family, and a stable job. People would usually refer to this way of living as the American Dream. In the novel, The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, she writes short stories representing the American Dream very well. One of the well-known main characters of her stories in the book is a young girl named Esperanza. The Main topic the story revolves around is the difficulties Esperanza and her family go through in a poor neighborhood in the city of Chicago. Some of the struggles they have to overcome are so hard that money, time, and your family are very important and can all be affected.

Everybody has the dream of living in a nice house with a family, nice car and just overall living the contemporary lifestyle. What does it take to do that though? How can you succeed at living a healthy lifestyle? In the story The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros the protagonist Esperanza undergoes not being able to live the American dream. Growing up in Chicago in a poor neighborhood, things were just overall hard for her and her family. The obstacles to not being able to live the American dream are poverty, language border, and education.

“You will always be Esperanza. You will always be Mango Street. You can't erase what you know. You can't forget who you are” (105). No matter what, Esperanza’s experiences on Mango Street have become a part of her and she cannot change it. In the novella, The House on Mango Street, written by Sandra Cisneros, the author introduces Esperanza, a resident of Mango Street, who constantly dreams of becoming an independent woman with a house of her own ideals. As she and her family purchase a house and become a newcomer into a new neighborhood of a crowded and poor Latino area, Esperanza faces mental and physical changes that affect how she sees the world. Sadly, the characteristics of the house consist of nothing of her desires. Due to her

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