The House On Mango Street Analysis

Judgement is a very frequent occurrence in today’s world. It usually isn’t an encouraging judgement though. Throughout the book, The House on Mango Street, the message of judgement of others being cruel is revealed. This isn’t just in Esperanza, the main character, but everyone in the book. It is important that everyone in the book progresses and matures as a person because, it causes everyone to become more together. This all proves the claim of, The House on Mango Street portrays an aspect of maturity by showing that what people imagine about others is often not how they truly act and are as a person, how they grow as a person, and what they strive to become.

CD: At the beginning of the novel, Esperanza describes her relations to the boys in her neighborhood as “a red balloon that is tied to an

Women within the novel and society face an inferior status by men and fall into a cruel cycle of abuse, but with the help of others the cycle of abuse and poverty and status of inferiority can break. The House on Mango Street takes place some time in the 1980’s. While not long ago, women during that time face domination by men and most struggle to fight back, which can still be seen today. Most women become bounded to the house, afraid to leave. Young girls however have the pleasure of going to school and most, but not all have the opportunity to play around. Although one should keep in mind that, most women in the novel who face abuse are Latino. In Latino culture, women are seen as possessions and therefore dependent on their man.

(hook) Written by Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street is a beautiful coming-of-age story from the perspective of a little Latina girl named Esperanza Cordero, who has just moved to a new house on Mango Street with her family. The story follows Esperanza and the people she encounters during her time on Mango Street as she struggles to find herself as an individual/her identity. During the story, Esperanza discovers how her culture and social class affects her, how she relates to the roles of women in her community, and how to process her hopes and dreams as she matures. These pieces eventually come together in order to help Esperanza form her identity.

“Born Bad” is the vignette I chose to address from The House on Mango Street. I didn’t find it to be significant at first because of the style of writing the author uses. I’ve not read any books using little vignettes as chapters. This style of writing makes me feel like I am reading about situations that seem random and disconnected. Esperanza was born on the evil day, what does this really have to do with her being a woman and not fitting in on Mango Street? Lucy, Rachel, and Esperanza made fun of Aunt Lupe the day she died, a sad event but what does that have do with her being a foreigner on Mango Street?

What does it mean when you need to fulfill a dream? Every person may have a different view towards the answer to this question. Personally, I believe this means your strong impulse to follow and conquer what you feel most passionate about. In the novel, The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros ,the main character Esperanza shares her journey through life and her longing desire to leave the house she lives on Mango Street forever. Throughout the novel there are multiple themes that transpire during Esperanza's life. Although each theme shows relevance, I conclude the most compelling theme in the novel and the most apparent in today's society is the need to fulfill a dream.

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.

Everyone who matures has a family and that family shapes that person into who they come to be. The main character, Esperanza from The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, is an excellent example of that; Esperanza is an insecure young Latina girl who is shaped by her family as she grows up. In the novel, Esperanza has the perspective of life from the experience of living in poverty. Esperanza dreams of a perfect home with amazing flowers and enough rooms that everyone in her family would each have one. However, she moves to the house on Mango Street, and reality is so different from what she has dreamt of. She receives a tiny run-down house with bricks that are broken down in numerous places around the house. Throughout the

Home is the place where one lives permanently, especially as a member of a family or household of or relating to the place where one lives. Home can and can’t be a physical environment. It can, because you have those connected thoughts, memories, feelings, and so much more to you house. Home also can be the environment, like the people, and animals all around you. Home also maybe could not be a physical environment because, You might feel like living there since it looks nice but does not have a good surrounding environment. For Esperanza, she is not proud of the House on Mango Street that she lived in when she was young. she feels like that it’s a dump and the places around it makes her feel bad on the inside.“There? The way she said it

In the book “The House on Mango Street” by Sandra Cisneros we are advised the story of the protagonist Esperanza over a sequence of short scenes. Esperanza is a adolescent lady who moved out of her old home along with her parents into a new area called Mango Street. The new house is not what Esperanza wanted, she anticipated a big, white, provincial house with a backyard. Rather, she got a tiny, red, recap apartment in a Latino area in Chicago. It is a coming of age story where Esperanza blooms in many attitudes, all over the whole book we appreciate she wants to move out of Mango Street into her own house. One of the complications that Esperanza faces is the experience of shame. This happens through House on Mango Street, Rice Sandwich, Bums in the Attic, and Monkey Garden; the first three have to do with her despise of the new house. In the scene Rice Sandwich, Esperanza ambitions to eat in the canteen with the other “special kids” rather of having to walk back home to make lunch. She asks her mom to write a letter to the nun who is the principal of the school, she doesn't accept the letter as the grammar was amateurish and asks Esperanza where she lived.

Two worlds. Two names. One person. In life there are always two sides to a situation, and two sides to a story. Sometimes there are two sides to someone’s life. There is always going to be tension between the two sides to show that every situation is going to have a more and less favorable side, and they are both there to show us who we are. The House on Mango Street is about a girl named Esperanza, and she is trying to find her place on mango street, and her place in life. Her life is impacted, in good ways and bad, by every person that she meets. We follow her, her family, her friends, and others in her journey of living on mango street, and experience her growing, developing, and experiencing the life made for her. In the book The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, we follow a constant tension created by the straddle of each character’s two worlds, and how the straddle impacts the character’s lives. This is shown in belonging and not belonging, with Esperanza not wanting to belong to the house on Mango Street, even when she does. When choosing who you are and who you want to be, when Meme wants to choose who he is even though he knows who he is. And finally, the constant tension between innocence and maturity, like when Esperanza and her friends encounter a situation which forces them to increase their maturity.

The story of my childhood is very present in my life every time I watch the Spanish programming on television. In the occasions I have free time from my daily routine I sit next my mother in the living room and talk about how different my childhood was in Mexico compared to my son’s here in California. We like to watch documentaries about the thirty two states and rural towns that surround each state in Mexico. Unlike the stories “Miss East LA” and My Ride My Revolution” by Luis J. Rodriguez my story does not begin in an urban city or in a diverse community like the south central area. Not even in a wealthy gated community or in the popular community of East Los Angeles.

This passage from the story makes me feel really bad for the main character, Esperanza. It is already bad enough to live in a house that is literally falling apart. To have other people constantly reminding her about it though, that is even worse. I predict that the house will be a major factor of depression in Esperanza. I also believe that once she has a chance, she is going to try to get out of that house and move somewhere else. (81 words)

A future can never be certain, but there are things that may help it to become more clear. The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros, is a simplistic yet emotionally moving piece of writing. The narrator is a young Latina girl who has found herself living in a house on Mango Street. Not following a chronological order, the short vignettes give a sense of incomplete endings and a never ending story. Although the book does follow Esperanza’s viewpoint, the book’s title fully embodies the experiences from Esperanza Cordero and the community around her.

Don't live on one of the best streets and they are in poverty. Esperanza is very ashamed about many things such as her name. In English it means hope and in Spanish "too many letters". She thinks it sounds like a song her father plays well he grooms himself.