Since Its Publication In 1984, 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.

Thesis statement: Esperanza has a variety of female role models in her life. Many are trapped in abusive relationships, waiting for others to change their lives. Some are actively trying to change things on their own. Through these women and Esperanza’s reactions to them, Cisneros’ shows not only the hardships women face, but also explores their power to overcome them.

The House on Mango Street is a novel that seeks to bring awareness of Mexican-American culture and how it affects women in particular. Accordingly, Esperanza is used to portray what it is like to be a Mexican-American female in this world. Throughout the novel she learns what is expected of her and what is supposedly out of her reach. She finds her own identity to be influenced by her culture and socioeconomic status, which creates her to be independent and caring.

The House on Mango Street is the tale about a young girl named Esperanza who is maturing throughout the text. In it Esperanza documents the events and people who make up Mango Street. It is through this community that Esperanza’s ideas and concepts of the relationships between men and women are shaped. She provides detailed accounts about the oppression of women at not only the hands of men who make up Mango Street but also how the community contributes to this oppression. As the young girls and women of Mango Street try to navigate the world they must deal with a patriarchal society that seeks to keep them confined. Sandra Cisneros’s vignettes demonstrate through Esperanza’s experience of growing up on Mango Street and witnessing the oppression

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

"The House on Mango Street," by Sandra Cisneros is a book about the obstacles Latin women encounter while residing on Mango Street. Men dominate their community and women are treated as if they as inferior human beings to the men. A woman's merit is placed on her outward appearance, as well as her loyalty to the men in her life. Throughout "The House on Mango Street," Sandra Cisneros utilizes the first-person frame of reference, portraying her struggle to augment her sexuality in a feminine fashion along with the firmly embedded longing for independence, amongst a community influenced by societal male gender roles. Cisneros scrutinizes the women who surround her within a parlous and male-dominated community, in which each women's circumstances are predestined by social as well as economic restrictions. For the large majority of the women living on Mango Street, these limitations are too formidable to conquer. Nevertheless, Esperanza exemplifies the potential to look past her lot in life, while the women surrounding her become victims of their society, continuing its vicious pattern.

Sandra Cisneros’, “The House on Mango Street” focuses on the narration of Esperanza, a young adolescent growing up in Chicago. Throughout the novel, Esperanza strives to develop her own sense of identity, while searching for the means out of her poverty-stricken neighborhood. With the help of her friends and family, Esperanza discovers how the world works, and what she needs to do in order to successfully better herself. The novel features several concepts of gender and sexuality studies including that of class structures, red-lining, gender, sexuality, intersectionality, and beauty. Those listed are simply a few more prominent features, as each character Esperanza introduces displays many more concepts within each scene. The concept of gender is portrayed widely throughout the novel and creates a foundation for the expectations the girls are about to face as they grow. Intersectionality interplays within the daily lives of each girl, and is seen within every page of the novel. Finally, beauty standards play an important role in the transition from adolescent to young adult each girl faces. Together, gender, intersectionality, and beauty standards, make up the novel, as it portrays the importance of each of these three core concepts of gender, women and sexuality studies.

In The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros, twelve-year-old Esperanza Cordero must navigate through the trials and tribulations that one can associate when encountering young adulthood. The author Cisneros, utilizes her unique writing style of vignettes to illustrate the narrative voice of Esperanza in her text. A major theme that can be seen as the most prominent thus far, is on the feminist role of Esperanza as a female in her Latin American culture. The House on Mango Street is an overall Bildungsroman that can be considered to be a feminist work of literature. The Bildungsroman is encompassed by various feminist values throughout the text of written work, regarding the particular subject. The writer, Cisneros’ feminist views are

The House on Mango Street is written by Sandra Cisneros. This book is a realistic fiction coming of age novel. The read is about a young woman named Esperanza who hopes and dreams of one day moving away from the poor community of Mango Street. This street is full of many pitiful apartments, many foreigners from other countries, and packed tight with trouble. As she faces the journey to one day leave this sorrowful street she comes to realize it will always be apart of her by the end of the story.

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, published in 1984, continues to be a staple in American Literature. The novel features the story of a Latina girl, named Esperanza, growing up in inner city Chicago. Told through a multitude of vignettes, the story showcases the struggles Mexican immigrants face in America. Although set in 1984, The House on Mango Street continues to be relevant with the enduring debate over Mexican immigrants in America today.

This essay focusses on the theme of how Sandra Cisneros uses the character Esperanza to bring light on the struggles of a growing up Mexican American women and how Esperanza feels about boys and girls living in different worlds with respect to the uniqueness of the Mexican American people and how

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros is a novel that talks about the life of Esperanza, meaning "hope" in English and a Chicana (Mexican American girl). Esperanza brings us into her world through short stories of when she lived in Mango Street. A perspective of the Latino neighborhood, family, friends and into maturity where Esperanza expresses the challenges she faces such as having her first crush and sexual assault. The House of Mango Street is extremely simple and easy to read, making the words flow smoothly.

The House on Mango Street explores a year of Esperanza Cordero’s life and those around her in a series of vignettes and how it shapes her as an individual. Esperanza is a young, Latina girl, whose father is Mexican and mother Latina. Esperanza and her family moved from the other side of Chicago to a home in a Latinx community in which Esperanza describes as small and red, with tight steps in the front and windows so small, you would think they were holding their breath (Cisneros, 2009, p. 4). The home is in no way how Esperanza imagines, but it is an improvement from where they were staying. During the year in Esperaza’s life, readers see how she matures socially, emotionally, and sexually. She has an ultimate goal, which is to leave Mango

The novel “The House on Mango Street” is written by Sandra Cineros. It deals with family, neighbourhood and dreams of a young Mexican girl, Esperanza Cordero growing up in Chicago. The novel begins when the Corderos move into a new house on Mango Street in the Latino section of Chicago. The fact that it is the first house they have ever owned, make them proud. But when Esperanza sees it, she is disappointed by the red, dilapidated house. It is not the one their

Cisneros' The House on Mango Street is a novel about the importance of not forgetting where you come from. Esperanza, a young Latino girl and the story's main character, wants to