The House On Mango Street By Sandra Cisneros

In the world of Esperanza's childhood, there is a separate universe between boys and girls (and, accordingly, between men and women). Esperanza and the other children of the barrio learn the intricacies of their gender roles by watching neighbors treat each other in certain ways. The fact that these gender roles are already so clear to Esperanza and the other children is indicative of their prominence in their society; instead of a bunch of kids playing together, they are already boys and girls, divided into two separate worlds.

The House on Mango Street is an interesting novel by Sandra Cisneros, and it was published in 1984. This novel is about a young Mexican-American girl named Esperanza who tells her story through vignettes, revealing the difficulties she experienced growing up with her Family in a low-income neighborhood in chicago. I chose The House on Mango Street because it is an interesting novel that explores race, gender, identity, culture, and socioeconomic status. In this novel, Cisneros incorporates her personal life experiences of being a young Latina female living in a society, dominated by man to describe the problems women were facing in House on Mango Street. During this period, women in the Latino culture and other cultures around the world were being treated as second class citizen, they were only valued for being wives and mothers, and were ostracized by society for wanting more in life. Throughout the novel, we see that Esperanza wants more in life, she has dreams of her own, dreams that goes against the cultural norms of Latinos. Her desire for something more than the house on Mango Street is going to help her move out of poverty by fulfilling her dreams. The negatives circumstances Esperanza endures due to the poor condition of Mango Street and the lack of role models motivated her to escape poverty and seek out a better life for herself.

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.

The first time Esperanza makes an appearance in the book, she is younger and easily manipulated, especially by her friends. Esperanza meets a girl named Cathy, a snobby girl that lived on Mango Street. When Cathy tells Esperanza “Okay, I’ll be your friend. But only until next Tuesday. That’s when we move away.” Then as if she forgot I had just moved in, she says the neighborhood is getting bad” (13) This was a racist statement towards Esperanza and her family, something she doesn’t quite understand yet because Esperanza thinks Cathy forgot they moved in, yet she was actually being racist. This is the first time Esperanza is exposed to racism in the book, therefore exposing her to the outside world. Later in the book, Esperanza meets Sally, a beautiful girl with shiny black hair, that all she seemingly just wants is to love, and Esperanza wants to be just like her. “I like your black coat and the shoes you wear, where did you get them? I want to buy shoes just like yours.” (82) Sally and Esperanza become friends, but later in the story, in the chapter Red Clowns, Esperanza is put in a dangerous situation where Sally walks off

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros tells the poignant and heartwarming story of Esperanza Cordero, a Latina girl maturing in Chicago. As Esperanza grows, she is faced with new hardships and expectations associated with being a woman, and becomes ashamed of her life. Esperanza learns to accept her life because she is exposed to different perspectives of women who feel trapped on Mango Street.

Esperanza explains it as, “The boys and girls live in separate worlds. The boys in their universe and we in ours” (Cisneros 8). Throughout the book, there is a constant conflict of being a female and keeping one’s freedom. Many of the men on Mango Street beat their wives and/or daughters and confine them to the home. Sally and Esperanza’s great-grandmothers are two examples of the mistreatment of women by men. Out of fear that Sally will run away, like his sisters did, Sally’s father abuses her as a means of control. In the chapter “What Sally Said”, Esperanza says,”But Sally doesn’t tell about the time he hit her with his hands just like a dog, she said, like if I was an animal” (Cisneros 92). Sally later ends up in an equally abusive and controlling marriage, which leaves her just like every other woman; by a window. Then there is Esperanza’s great-grandmother who was forced to marry and spend the rest of her life leaning out a window in sadness, dreaming of all the things she could have been in life. It is because of these things that Esperanza wants to escape; abusive relationshionships, confinement, helplessness, and fear. She refuses to comply with the expectations that society has set for her as a woman. For Esperanza, defying this gender role and remaining an independent woman is an act of dissent, and almost

Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street tells the story of a young, teenage, Latina girl named Esperanza, living in the late twentieth century. Esperanza takes her readers through her life and adventures through each chapter of the novella where each time she learns something. She faces the troubles of racism, friendship, and strange neighborhoods and most importantly, figuring out how she wants to spend her life. Through her race and wealth, Esperanza has created her identity as a shy, poor, and ambitious person.

At first, she was a strong woman, but after her forced marriage she spent most of her days looking out a window and hoping for escape. Explaining the interaction between both sexes of children on Mango Street, Esperanza states that the boys and the girls live in separate worlds. Even at a young age, divisions between gender are present among the characters. By living in separate worlds, they are demonstrating real life situations that are already occurring in society at that time period. All in all, unfair gender roles in society is another important theme illustrated in the beginning of the novel.

Marriage is recognized in the society like one men and woman union for a legal contract. Marriage has a numerous of definitions: legal and moral provision for generation among human kind. This word can represent more than its definition. Marriage for many artists symbolize hate, passion, oppression, euphoria that have been serving as the focus point of many literary works. One example is “Linoleum Roses “,one of the vignettes that made up “The House on Mango Street”, a coming-of-age novel by Mexican-American writer Sandra Cisneros. Cisneros in this specific vignette reveals the inherent oppressiveness of all marriages, which by their nature rob people of their independence.

Growing up and chasing your goals can be tough for some people because of their financial status or surroundings and more for a child that has to go through it at a young age. But what actually takes people far to succeed in life is to work diligently and to never capitulate. Esperanza Cordero, a girl who dreams are significant, is the main character on The House On Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, who represents the females of her needy neighborhood who desire to enhance and change themselves despite their surroundings and restrictions while she struggles to confront her neighborhood’s poverty. Because of her Mexican heritage, Esperanza hopes to change the typical role of women in her family and neighborhood. Throughout the book, Esperanza goes through several changes to seek her identity, maturity and independence. Throughout the novel Esperanza evolves from an immature, innocent girl to a mature young lady because of the experiences of having to deal with abuse, poverty and the fact that she wanted to be distinct.

The House on Mango street is an amazing coming of age story about a young Mexican girl in a poor Chicago neighborhood. It was written by Author Sandra Cisneros (who will be explored further in the paper) in the early 1980’s. The main Protagonist is named Esperanza. When the story first starts she in 12 and has just moved into her new house on mango street. The house actually does not live to Esperanza expectations because it’s old and tiny. This creates motivation in Esperanza to move from Mango Street and buy a bigger, better house. The book explores Espranza difficulties a young woman growing and gives perspective of all her neighbors. Shortly after moving into the house. Eperanze becomes friends with two girls, Lucy and Rachel. They go on

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

Ethnicity, especially within the context of the United States, has been something that has continued to be fraught with both a positive and dark history. Ethnicity and race still play huge roles in American society centuries after its foundation. One of the books I feel perfectly touches on ethnicity in America specifically is Sandra Cisneros The House on Mango Street. Cisneros tells a coming of age story through brief episodes of a girl named Esperanza her life varying from things about her family, neighborhood, and different dreams and goals that she has. The House on Mango street is a personal and touching look at what it means to be a minority/immigrant in America as well what it means to grow up poor. In this book report, I will try to discuss this book 's themes, characters and story while also relating it to the class.

The House on Mango Street is a coming of age story about a young Mexican-American girl named Esperanza, who is struggling to figure out the pieces of herself. Such as, self-definition, ethnicity, language, and economic status. All these come into play as she learns that what defines her is her ability to tell stories. Her writing allows her to express those aspects of her life and allow her to step out of her comfort zone about her background and how she feels towards defining herself.

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