The House On MAngo Street

Esperanza and her mother made the choice to leave Mexico and go to California to work and escape Tio Luis, which I believe to be a good decision. Before going, Esperanza was spoiled, rich, and quite full of herself, living in a high social class family, and in general thought of herself better than others. At first, she was against leaving everything she knew and loved, but in the end, found herself liking California. Esperanza made new friends, in particular, Isabel, who taught her many things, even though she was younger. She taught her how to appreciate what she had, and how to get a job done. She taught her how to deal with the fact that

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

Esperanza has a variety of female role models in her life. Many are trapped in abusive relationships, waiting for others to change their live. Esperanza had many struggles in her life, not growing up where and how she wanted to so role models were very important to her. These role models showed her the way she didn't

While Carmen helping poor people Esperanza confused because she didn’t think of poor can help each other. She was confused because the way she raised were different compared to other people. Finally, Esperanza realized that there are more profound aspects in life than being

Esperanza’s insecurity about where she lives and how she lives is the conflict of the story. A tradition her father, Nenny, and herself has is going to the houses on the hills, she believes she looks like the hungry asking for food so she no longer goes. Esperanza is so ashamed of her house that when someone ask which house she lives in she denies living in those flats. She becomes aware of how poor her family is when she must go to work to help pay for private school, this encourages her to get out of the flats. Esperanza sets out to be able to support herself on her own and buy the house she has been dreaming of since she was little.

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

However, some may argue that Esperanza's friends are more of an important aspect of Esperanza's identity. This may be because Esperanza spends time with her friends in which they create experiences together that may develop who she grew up to be. In spite of that, Esperanza's family is who she spends the majority of her time with. She wouldn't have learned how to be a role model for others if it weren’t for her family. In addition without her family

Esperanza began to feel like an outcast, like she was completely alone. She felt absolutely ashamed of who she was. Her identity was lost in her yearn to find comfort in friends to feel as if she belonged. “I want to be like the waves on the sea, like the clouds in the wind, but I’m me. One day I’ll jump out of my skin. I’ll shake

“I looked at my feet in their white socks and ugly round shoes. They seemed far away. They didn’t seem to be my feet anymore. And the garden that had been such a good place to play didn’t seem mine either” (The House on Mango Street p.98) As a person matures they learn new things about themselves and develop their identity. People mature through certain experiences they go through and the issues they personally face. In Esperanza’s case as the novel progressed she changed and matured. Identity changes drastically as a person matures, through point of view, conflict, and setting the author of The House on Mango Street convey’s this.

Esperanza is a shy but a very bright girl. She dreams of the perfect home now, with beautiful flowers in their luscious garden and a room for everyone to live in comfortably all because of the unsatisfied face the nun made that one afternoon--when she moves to the house of Mango Street. She thinks it’s going to be a “grand house on a hill that will have a bedroom for everyone and at least three washrooms so when they took a bath they would not have to tell everybody.” (Cinceros 4) Reality is so different for her when her dream is shot down in a heartbeat when she

Esperanza feels more comfortable now that she has someone to eat lunch with. So pretty much, in general, she really likes it but when it comes to being social, she doesn’t exactly know what to do with it. When a boy comes into the picture, things change and she starts to like it even more.

When she first describes her name she states “It means sadness, it means waiting” (Cisneros 10). These words to describe herself are negative and literally sad, they depict loneliness and unfulfilled wishes and expectations. If her name is something that represents unhappiness and mecoriticy, then it is no surprise that she can’t view herself as anything but mundane and common. Not only that, but because she has the same name as her great grandmother, her name also represents tradition, “It is the Mexican records her father plays when he is shaving, songs like sobbing” (Cisneros 10). The misfortune her family experienced once they came to America is apparent whenever her name is spoken, but is also an idea that maybe one day Esperanza will change that.

She had to go against her own interests. Even after Esperanza’s father got married, he continued doing what he liked, his job, but her mother, she had to quit. She had to focus on being a ‘woman’. This could probably mean that she was forcefully married.

Esperanza had a great desire to live elsewhere, in “A real house.”(5) While not realizing it then, she had an out from the hardships of living on Mango. Esperanza wrote and wrote to dealwith what she dealt with. “You must keep writing. It will keep you free,”(61) In time she figures out that some people don’t have a way to manage what they go through. Esperanza’s mother has a coping method also, and it’s drawing; with a needle. “She draws with a needle and thread.”(90) The realization that she is lucky enough to be able to handle Mango street and it’s quirks builds character in Esperanza. She is able to appreciate what she has, yet it is also saddening to know that some are not as

Esperanza feels like she belongs somewhere other than Mango Street. She feels as if she cannot live her life to the fullest potential there. She strongly wishes she could leave her neighborhood behind. She observes other women, and makes new friendships in hopes to find where she belongs. The friend she gets the closest with is Sally. Sally is sexually