The House On Mango Street By Sandra Cisneros

All the people on Mango Street were struggling to get by, but they seemed satisfied with just making it. Esperanza was not. There were characters like Esperanza’s mother who was a “smart cookie,” and could’ve been anything, but she let shame get the best of her and dropped out of school. There was also Rafaela who got married before the 8th grade just so she could move into her own house, but her husband never let her leave the house afterward. He never let her see her friends, and the highlight of her week was getting coconut or papaya juice from someone who would send it up in a paper bag attached to a clothespin since she couldn’t leave the house. Lastly, there was the time when she was left stranded by the tilt-a- whirl waiting for a friend that never came back and got molested by a group of boys. The only witnesses were the red clown statues that seemed to be laughing at her. Nevertheless, she let none of this stopped her from going forward and perusing her dream. She still seemed to be struggling with a sense of belonging, but maybe that’s because she didn’t.

Imagine feeling like you don’t belong and never will, or that the odds of your success is a slim chance to none. The House on Mango Street written by Sandra Cisneros, leads us into a world of poverty, broken dreams, and slithers of hope. The House on Mango Street follows the life of a young girl by the name of Esperanza Cordero, who occupies her childhood in an indigent Latino neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois. The books expresses her dire need to have a place where she can call home, and escape the harsh reality of her expected life. Though, her life on Mango Street is bearable with help of her little sister Nenny, her two best friends Rachel and Lucy, and her other friend Sally. On her journey to adulthood, Sandra Cisneros will show how Esperanza assimilates into a mature young lady, who truly find her identity, and develops emotionally as well as physically.

In the novel, The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, the theme of growing up is prevalent throughout the book. Throughout the novel, a young mexican girl named Esperanza goes through experiences as she matures that involve her friends, society, dangers that expose her to the outside world and help her to realize what the real world is like.

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 family’s new home is located in the center of a crowded Latino neighborhood in Chicago, also very similar to the up-bringing of Cisneros. Chicago is important to the setting of the story and to understanding the underlining meanings, because Chicago is a city where many of the poor areas are racially segregated. As soon as she arriving to her new home Esperanza promises herself that she will someday leave Mango Street and have a house all her own, a house which resembles the American dream, white fence, and huge yard. During the year covered in the novel Esperanza matures significantly, both in a sexual and emotional manner. The novel as it is broken into chapters, short stories, almost charts and illustrates her life as she makes friends, develops her first crush, and endures sexual assault. The charting of Esperanza life is mainly done through the stories of many of Esperanza’s neighbors. The stories giving a full picture of the neighborhood and the life which Esperanza is living on a day to day basis. It’s interesting because many of the stories, specially of the women in Esperanza’s neighborhood, allows the reader to assume that the lives of these women, which include abuse, male dominance, and lack of freedom are all possible outcomes and paths of Esperanza’s future. After moving to the house, Esperanza quickly becomes friends with Lucy and Rachel, two girls whom are also Mexican-American and who live only across the street from her. Lucy, Rachel, Esperanza,

    In the book, Esperanza experiences, gender inequality. During this vignette Alicia Who Sees Mice, Alicia’s mother died. Now Alicia has to take all of her mother’s responsibilities.

The House on Mango Street is about Esperanza Cordero's life. It starts when Esperanza is forced to move, she was excited to live in the house of her dreams but was soon let down. The house wasn't huge or white like the perfect ones on tv, which made Esperanza very bitter and unhappy. Throughout the book it shows many of Esperanza's friends and the hope they all have for each other. Esperanza is a very powerful and hopeful person, she's convinced she can stop all the racism, poverty, and the gender separatism in her life and in her neighborhood.

The House on Mango Street is a novel written by Sandra Cisneros. She wrote this book about a young girl named Esperanza Cordero. Esperanza has a big dream to leave Chicago, however there are many things stopping her. She and her family live in a poor but joyous neighborhood. However it has a dark side, poverty can lead people into making bad decisions.

After Esperanza and her family move to their new home, she quickly finds a friend in Lucy and Rachel two girls from across the street. During the first half of the year, they have numerous adventures such as: riding bikes, exploring a junk shop, playing jump rope, as well as befriending a young woman named Marin. In addition, for Esperanza and her friends puberty is near; therefore, it exposes them to adulthood and pressures something they’re quite not use to. Also, she constantly nags about her family’s poverty and her difficult-to-pronounce name; moreover, Esperanza loves to write poems who she only shares with people of her

Every person has there own story to tell on how they have grown as a person. In the House On Mango Street by author Sandra Cisneros, the idea of growing up plays a big role in the story. In life people have expectations that they want to reach but along the way there will alway be bumps on the road but that’s just apart of growing up. This becomes clear to the reader when Esperanza starts finding out more about the world as she grows up. Throughout the story she continues to expirence new challenges in life that she has never thought of before.

In the first part of the book, Esperanza moves into a new house on Mango Street and meets different types of people in her community and realizes that they are in a tight enclosure and are helplessly trying to escape. The influential people she meets help Esperanza form an understanding and acceptance of the knowledge she gains from them, which aid her into discovering where she belongs and who she is as a person. Marin, a teenage girl who waits everyday for a guy to change her life rather than doing it herself, is the first woman that Esperanza views as a role model because she provides Esperanza with information that she cannot learn from books or her own mother, “Marin, under the streetlight, dancing by herself, is singing the

Cisneros, Sandra. The House on Mango Street. New York: Vintage Books, 1991. Print. It is extremely important for other high school students to read this book. One reason is because of the unique and insightful perspective the main character of the book provides; it is profound, impactful, and analyzes common issues and cultural conflicts specific to the setting of the book through a relatable voice. Another motive to read this book is the heart wrenching symbolism that is weaved through almost every chapter. Whether it is music boxes, people, or even shoes, symbolism is intertwined with the very essence of the book itself. There are, of course, many ways to literarily criticize this text. One insightful way would be to analyze the structure

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

The House on Mango Street (1984) by Sandra Cisneros is a novel like no other. Sandra Cisneros through a clever writing style shows us the society through a character by the name Esperanza Cordero. A wide range of themes is brought to light, from racism all the way to gender roles. Cisneros employs vignettes to show society from different points of view, among them Sally and Marin. Racism, gender roles, and classism are classic themes in any novel.

Sandra Cisneros was born December 20, 1954 in Chicago, IL. She is one of seven children, the only daughter, and her parents are originally from Mexico. Sandra lived in poverty most of her life. “The family [Cisneros] shuttled between Chicago and Mexico City before finally settling in an area of Chicago… a neighborhood that would later provide inspirations for The House on Mango Street (Mark Editors).” In this novel she depicts what it was like to grow up as a Mexican-American in the Chicago. Even though so many doubted her chance at success, she found an outlet in writing.