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This essay will discuss the historical-, philosophical-, and theoretical background of House and Street by Stuart Davis created in 1931. This art is a typical example of the look and feel of the Modern Movement style.

On average 40,093,000 people in the United States move annually. In the book The House on Mango Street the main character Esperanza and her family are included in this number. They Come very poor roots, and they don 't have much money. They move often, one day dreaming to live in a real house, one they don 't have to share, one with their own yard, with stairs that are not hallway stairs, etc. They finally move into this beaten up house on Mango street, Her family is in love with it and act like it 's their dream, however it does not meet Esperanza`s standards. Despite her dislike for this house

“Home is where the heart is.” In The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros develops this famous statement to depict what a “home” really represents. What is a home? Is it a house with four walls and a roof, the neighborhood of kids while growing up, or a unique Cleaver household where everything is perfect and no problems arise? According to Cisneros, we all have our own home with which we identify; however, we cannot always go back to the environment we once considered our dwelling place. The home, which is characterized by who we are, and determined by how we view ourselves, is what makes every individual unique. A home is a personality, a depiction of who we are inside and

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” This quote by Helen Keller claims that in order to thrive, one needs hope and confidence. Esperanza happens to have both-- at least she eventually comes to have both. In her series of vignettes, “The House on Mango Street,” Sandra Cisneros writes of several of Esperanza’s experiences to show her evolution as a child into a woman. Esperanza starts as an insecure child, before beginning to gain confidence, and finally gaining that confidence. This evolution of Esperanza’s can be seen in the vignettes, “A Rice Sandwich,” “Papa Who Wakes Up Tired In The Dark,” and “Beautiful and Cruel” respectively. These experiences and vignettes that Cisnero covers

In life many people set goals for themselves. For some people it maybe a goal such as obtaining a high test grade and for others it maybe to one day own a race car. Everybody has a different outlook on life and everyone has different goals in which they one day hope to achieve. The people who achieve their goals are those who are motivated and determined to do so. When these goals are achieved it is then when you are a hero to yourself.

In the vignettes “The House on Mango Street,” “Cathy Queen of Cats,” and “A Rice Sandwich,” Sandra Cisneros is trying to portray that socioeconomic classes impact an individual 's self-confidence. These three stories tie together an underlying principle about someone 's outlook and perspective on their lives based on their living situation. The mix of the characters initial low esteem and the opinions of others upon their socio-economic class the reader can see the effect towards self-confidence.

A boy feels trapped and isolated in his house. He wants to go outside with his friends and explore the landscape, but he can't. His mom isolates him inside making him study and do extra work for school. He wants to leave, breathe in the fresh air, but he can't escape his mother’s grasp. This scenario represents a similar idea addressed in the vignette “The House on Mango Street”: Isolation. In The House On Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros is able to incorporate details and characterization to illustrate Esperanza’s isolation due to her moving constantly. Ultimately, the way Cisneros develops the use of symbolism, the theme of identity and literary devices in the vignette leads one to see why it is the most powerful chapter in the novel.

At the plankton factory, Matt was an outcast but later became a hero after he defies the corrupted keepers and saves one of the boys from being beaten by a cane. When he was released into the boneyard, he escaped with his 3 friends, Chaco, Fidelito, and Ton Ton. Using the plankton harvestor, they were able to break down the electric fence and escape the perimeter under the scorching hot sun. At dawn Fidelito and Matt had to walk on land to San Luis where Tam Lin told Matt he was going to find Maria. During that time, there were Dia de Muertos (celebration of the dead) festivities. When they entered the room where Chacho was hospitalized, they Keepers were there as well as Ton-Ton. AS they were fighting, Esperanza luckily storms into the room along with Maria, to tell everyone to stop and accuses the Keepers of smuggling drugs into Aztlan.

The Sam Davis Home is a historical plantation reserved in Smyrna, Tennessee where the Davis’ resided. Sam Davis, son of Charles and Jane Davis, was a well-known, wealthy individual who was known for his courageous act during the civil war. This site is local to me and I wanted a better understanding of the history around me that has impacted my community over the years. I have attended the Sam Davis Home a few times before in my life, mostly during grade school. I was alone with Cady, the tour guide, during the tour so it was easy to ask questions and take time explaining things thoroughly. I plan to go back during October for other events and haunted tours of the Sam Davis Home. I am truly pleased with my choice in location and it has given me a better outlook on Smyrna and a great appreciation for the town.

Self-realization is a part of growing up. “The House on Mango Street” by Sandra Cisneros consists of a girl creating journal/letter entries, which are the chapters in the book. As a reader, understanding Esperanza, the main character, comes from understanding how she handles life situations in each story. As a younger Hispanic female, Esperanza grows up in poverty, slowly realizing who she is as a person. While Esperanza gets older, her writing style changes; it goes from innocent to becoming numb to disturbances she encounters.

A coming of age story can be told in many different ways, but the way that Sandra Cisneros tells the story “The House on Mango Street” is a very unorthodox approach. One key element of these stories is the main character’s struggle to find her identity. This is best illustrated in the vignette “My Name” (10-11). The vignette is about the narrator (Esperanza), describing the story of her name and what it means. She seems to have a strong hate of her name, and Sandra Cisneros uses this as away to reveal Esperanza’s hatred of herself. Cisneros uses sensory details and clear cut diction to describe who Esperanza’s is as a character, and the various emotions that she feels like anger, sadness, and the emptiness that she has not knowing who she

Mikage Sakurai surrounded by struggles that is effected in her life, which is included, both her parents died (p.4) then her grandmother died, so her family had steadily decreased one by one as the years went by (p.4). She feels lonely and lost. Apparently, when she starts looking for a new apartment, one of the important places in the apartment is kitchen because she believes that kitchens are the best place in this world (p.3). The sentence which indicates that she obsessed with kitchens, she said " when it comes time to die, I want to breathe my last in a kitchen (p,4). "A place where they make food (p,3)". We can infer from this, Sakurai loves cooking and it is the most important activity in her life. For my experience, when I was stay

speranza tells us a story threw all her vignettes.They are so unique that it gives off an idea of who she wants to be and who she is naturally. A girl and a family who have dreamed to live in a big house end up living somewhere they didn’t expect. The vignettes that connect makes this even more interesting. You’ll be surprised to hear what she has to say and what she thinks.

Esperanza is girl who is the main character of the book “House On Mango Street” and the author who writes vignettes about her. The author of this book is Sandra Cisneros and gives us facts and thoughts about Esperanza’s life and more. Esperanza is 12 years old and lives in a house in a street called Mango Street. All of this contribute to the topics observation, friendship, and family. Observation, family, and friendship will give more gifts and trust to one another and become as one.

In the book The House on Mango Street the vignettes are written in an impressionistic style. A characteristic of impressionism that is very prevalent in this book is that if the reader was to look at each vignette in a lot of detail, and very separately, the whole book would not make sense, however if they were to take a step back and think of the book as a whole, the bigger picture is more clear. In the impressionistic art, the painters would paint in such a way that looking closely was very confusing and nobody could tell what the scene was, but when they were to look at it from farther away they could make out a bigger picture. Cisneros does this in The House on Mango Street by making each vignette very separate. None of them seem to have anything to do with the