The House On Mango Street Chapter Summary

Growing up on Mango Street, girls had to take two steps backward to take one forward. Just like ballroom dancing, women let men take the lead and sacrifice an extra step to continue moving on the floor. When Sally escaped from her father and married the marshmallow salesman, she had to give up her youth and femininity.

Matt is faced with fact that he will die to help El Patron. To escape his horrible fate, Matt escapes to Aztlan, but is taken to a plankton farm and must escape once again. While facing all these obstacles, Matt Alacran never gives up achieving what he wants. In the end we can see Matt had friends who trusted him and didn’t care if he was a clone, such as Maria, Celia, Chaco, and Fidelito. When he returns back to Opium and hears about Tam Lin’s sacrifice, he sets his mind to freeing the eejits and making Opium into a better land. Overall, he became someone people can trust and someone who wasn’t just El Patron’s clone, but just Matt Alacran. This novel was able to show readers the true meaning of what it is to a human through a clone’s eyes who has been going through a tough journey to become a person with a good

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

After papa died, Mama, Esperanza, Abuelita were in shock. They lived without saying any word or talking until they ran out of money for livestock.Then soon, Hortensia, Miguel, and Alfonso decided to move to urban areas to get a job to live. Since Esperanza and Mama´s bank money was empty, they couldn't pay them for servants. They greeted them goodbye, hugged and told them that they would be back in couple of years. Then the next day, Mama thought we wouldn't obviously survive without money. So on Saturday, she went out with Abuelita to look out for a job near Él Rancho, in the late night when Esperanza was sleeping.When the sun was shining in Esperanza's eyes, she woke up with the birds chirping, chickens crying, but especially Mama

1) Tita was born to serve her Mama Elena until her death, in which affected her deeply. These emotions of hatred for such stupid tradition made her life worst ever since he met Pedro. After the death of Mama Elena, Tita began to realize that hers and her family's value and honor wasn't what people thought, but more as a mess. She strongly opposed the tradition idea that Rosaura had in mind for Esperanza, she said,"There's one thing for sure, I'm not going to allow you to poison your daughter with those sick ideas you have in your head. I'm not going to let you ruin her life either, forcing her to follow some stupid tradition,"(pg 215). She doesn't want Esperanza to suffer the same misery that she felt.

Matt, the main character of the book, The House of the Scorpion, goes through his life being criticized and tormented because of one thing that sets him apart from most people. He is a clone, but not just any clone, all the other clones minds were wiped and destroyed and they were called eejits and they only do things on command. Matt is the clone of a very rich man named El Patron. El patron wanted Matt to have a normal life as a boy but Matt found out why El Patron really did this for him. All of this happens at a big house in a country called Opium. El Patron dies because Matt does not and can not have a heart transplant with El Patron. Matt is then appointed death because they have no use for him. A bodyguard/ assassin/ terrorist lets him go and Matt wants to find his best friend and love, Maria, and her mother. His journey doesn’t go as planned but he finally gets there and meets Maria and her mother. When they go back Matt finds out that at El Patron's funeral El Patron had poisoned the wine and everyone except for three people lived.

follows the life of a boy named Matt Alacrán throughout the first fourteen years of his life. In the country Opium during a futuristic time period, Matt lives with his “mom like figure” named Celia, who is actually a caretaker and housekeeper at the residence of El Patron. El Patrón is a very wealthy man who is 148 years old. He manages to live for so long due to his production of eejits, which are clones that he relies on for transplants. With his need to live, Matt is created as a clone. The everyday circumstances that everyone else face, become magnified to a much greater extent for Matt since he’s a clone. Since Matt is technically El Patrons life, he gets special, precautious treatment. This special treatment vanishes when Celia and Matt ally their forces to cease the transferring of organs between Matt and El Patron. El Patron died and Tam Lin, the bodyguard of Matt, was ordered to kill Matt. Since they were close, Tam Lin helped Matt escape to quickly get across the border. Matt just makes it across the border but is put into a home with other orphans. There he makes friends with three boys named Chacho, Fidelto, and Ton-Ton who are partners in his escape. When they finally escape from the boneyard, Matt reunites with Celia to be told that he is not a clone anymore, but a human that is now the owner of Opium.

At the end of the story Matt is now the leader of Opium and must take care of all of El Patrón’s duties since everyone died at his funeral. First of all, I think that El Patrón is an evil, cruel, and selfish person because he thinks he’s entitled, killed his family and friends so he wasn’t lonely in the afterlife, and created the eejits even though he didn’t want to take care of him. The text states, “There were eight of us,’ said El Patrón, ‘and only I lived to grow up. Don’t you think I’m owed those lives?” This shows that El Patrón is selfish and thinks he is entitled to what he wants.

and he forced María to kiss him as his present. María was extremely embarrassed by this as she was forced to do so, and as a result she wouldn’t talk to Matt for the longest time because she shut him out and went to San Luís to learn about Saint Francis. The whole Alacrán family is also suffering from the quest for power as it even says right on the back of the book “El Patrón’s power-hungry family.” El Patrón has made Benito marry Fani so the Alacráns could have an alliance with the rich and powerful Nigerian government. As well as that Matt, who thought Steven and Emilia were if not friends, not enemies, was captured by them to be taken to El Patrón to be used for

This knowledge gives him the ability to say whatever he wants to them, trying to instill fear. Everyone is afraid of El Patron because they know that he has the power to send them to the Farms to become eejits. At the birthday party, El Patron has walked in on the scene of Matt attempting to move Tom’s name to the baby table. Though Matt fears he will be in trouble, El Patron actually seems to be approving of his actions. “That’s the stuff, Mi Vida.

Everyone has challenges in their life, their feelings behind their actions make them who they are. In the novel The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros there are many conflicts which explore the characters, to get to know them closer. The internal conflict is used to discover the identity of the main character, Esperanza.

After El Patron’s death, which was November 2, 2136, Matt came back to Opium to set the eejits free. It took awhile because Matt had to find doctors to remove the implants out of the eejits’ heads and then he had to set up a school for the eejits so when they went back to their families, they had a little bit of an education. All of the eejits were thankful that Matt had this done. They

El Patron has created and killed other clones prior to Matt, and he loves to agony his family members. He kills his entire family so that they can all be buried with him in his wannabe pharaoh tomb. Furthermore, all villains are villains for a reason. El Patron tells Matt the story of his family. El Patron says "There were eight of us, and only I lived to grow up.

Julio twenty-one year old gang banger agrees with police to do a sting operation to take down one of the biggest cartel drug dealer in the area name EL MALDITO reduce his prison sentence. El Maldito a thirdly-seven year old cartel member of the Los Saenz cartel, agreed to meet Julio at local hotel in the Edinburg area. In the beginning of the scene, Julio is in a vehicle with two DEA agents while on the phone with the cartel member. The two agents put a recording device on Julio chest under his shirt to get vital information to lead to the arrest of El Maldtio In the motel room Julio meets El Maldtio with several men inside, he starts to act nervous, shaky and starts to lose his voice. El Maldtio notices something wrong, orders his men to strip