Identity In The House On Mango Street

It's difficult growing up in America as a person of color. It's especially hard for caucasians to truly understand the struggles that people of color must face in their everyday lives. But Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street teaches us just that. The House on Mango Street is the story of a young Latina girl named Esperanza, living in Chicago during the 1960's with her poor family. It's Esperanza's daily struggles that shape her into the person she is.

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

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.

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

In “The House on Mango Street”, the young daughter desires to leave her neighborhood as a way to escape her Mexican-American culture. One of the cultures which are most powerful in this story is the Hispanic culture that Esperanza and all of her neighbors emerge from. Her Hispanic culture has such a powerful influence on her

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.

The most important Theme in The House on Mango Street is identity. Identity is a very

When first coming to this country as a Hispanic American you may face a lot of difficulties and find more problems than the average white American. Hispanic people go through different adversities and have trouble overcoming them. In The House on Mango Street the main character Esperanza is the one that narrates the story, she explains what it is like to live on Mango Street. She shows the readers that living on Mango Street is perceived as a terrible area, if one were looking from the outside in. But those that live there feel that they live in fair living conditions. The fact is most of the people who live on Mango Street don 't know what it 's like to live outside of mango street. In the story, they show a lifestyle that most Hispanic people deal with especially the ones that come to America and have to figure out how to make ends meet. In The House on Mango Street, the novel has many themes and problems, such as gender inequality, stereotypes, and language barriers. With short stories like "Aria" and "the myth of Latin Woman," a solution is always found. Sometimes there is a simple solution and other times, it is not so easy to find, or there 's just no solution to solving the characters problems and they are still trying to look for results.

Dreadful events can happen to anyone. It depends on who you are, what you do, and where you’re at. In this case Esperanza is a mature little girl in her pre-teens but struggles through dreadful events that she doesn’t deserve. In The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros utilizes young characters to remind us about the things we take for granted and how some people aren’t so fortunate to live in a nice neighborhood opposed to a dangerous one where dreadful events happen to innocent people.

     In The House on Mango Street, we see how the youth struggled with the discrimination being pushed on them by Whites. Esperanza describes how they lived in such a poverty-stricken area of the city, and did not interact with the Whites. She talks about how the Whites saw Mexicans as bad people who committed crimes. Esperanza shows how personal identity for Mexicans was made

The author conveys the theme identity through the point of view. Since the point of view is through Esperanza’s eyes the reader can see how she is affected by everything she goes through. This was the author can demonstrate how Esperanza’s internally developing. During the novel, Esperanza had to get a job at a young age to help pay for the private school she went to. She felt very out of place and uncomfortable throughout the experience. “...I wouldn’t have minded it except that you got tired after a while and I didn’t know if I could sit down or not…” (House on Mango Street p.54) The audience can see from her point of view how she is feeling. For example, she felt so uncomfortable that she didn’t know when it was acceptable to sit. She would only sit once the other ladies would. This is showing how she is feeling because it’s an example of her

The House on Mango Street is a novel written by Sandra Cisneros about a young girl named Esperanza Cordero, and her transition from childhood into adulthood. Although Cisneros used many different symbolic objects to use as a way to represent Esperanza’s thoughts and feelings, she chose to use shoes in particular as something to represent Esperanza’s loss of innocence as she grows up on Mango Street.

In The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros, a little girl from a Latino heritage is given birth to. Not literally, but in the sense of characterization. Esperanza is a fictional character made up by Cisneros to bring about sensitive, alert, and rich literature. She is the protagonist in the novel and is used to depict a female’s life growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Cisneros creates the illusion that Esperanza is a real human being to communicate the struggles of growing up as a Latina immigrant in a modern world, by giving her a name, elaborating her thoughts and feelings, and illustrating her growth as a person through major events.

Esperanza, the protagonist in the House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, is a character who feels like she doesn't belong and struggles to find herself. Throughout the novel she is able to make connections between elements in the environment and that relate directly to her own life. For example, she identifies with The Four Skinny Trees, who appear to be out of place. Esperanza compares herself to the trees because she thinks that like the trees she does not belong on Mango Street. They greatly impact her and she forms a strong connection with them.

Various meanings of “Identity” exist in the world. “How would you describe yourself?” “What kind of person are you?” If someone asks you these questions, how do you reply to them? You make the choice among many alternatives by basing your way because everyone holds unique traits and a unique personality. I also hold some traits that includes not only positive but also negative. It indicates “Identity” in general. “people’s concepts of who they are, of what sort of people they are, and how they relate to others” (Hogg and Abrams 1988, 2). In other words, the meaning of identity describes “who a person is or the qualities of a person or group that make them different from others” (“Identity). Throughout the House on Mango Street, Esperanza showed herself and who she wants to become. She lives on Mango Street at the age of twelve. As she named the title “the House on Mango Street” to the book, Esperanza’s family, neighborhood and the place where she lives on show the most significant part of her identity. Also, the place “Mango Street” where she spends most of her childhood changes her a lot from a girl to a woman. The Latin-American traditions made up her another part of her identity. In her growth process, exile, poverty, and the restrictions of their gender roles by cultural traditions influenced Esperanza. As Esperanza shows her identity on “the House on Mango Street,” this booklet expressed my identity from many aspects, such as nationality, family, education, work, and