The House On Mango Street Character Analysis

Another example of optimism portrayed by Esperanza was that despite her horrible first experiences with the opposite sex, (as in chapter 21, The First Job and chapter 39, The Red Clowns) she still has dreams of sitting outside at night with her

Esperanza, a strong- willed girl who dreams big despite her surroundings and restrictions, is the main character in The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. Esperanza represents the females of her poor and impoverished neighborhood who wish to change and better themselves. She desires both sexuality and autonomy of marriage, hoping to break the typical life cycle of woman in her family and neighborhood. Throughout the novel, she goes through many different changes in search of identity and maturity, seeking self-reliance and interdependence, through insecure ideas such as owning her own house, instead of seeking comfort and in one’s self. Esperanza matures as she begins to see the difference. She evolves from an insecure girl to a

(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.

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.

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 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

When society faces obstacles that are deemed a burden it is often forgotten that those same Experiences and tragedies often shape an individual's outlook on life and inspires personal growth from within. The Novel, The House on Mango Street reminds its readers that even in the worst of times there is still a lesson to be learned as seen through the eyes of a girl named, Esperanza. The coming of age story deals with dark underlying struggles blanketed in the innocent viewpoint of a child forced to grow up frighteningly quick. The main protagonist, a young Chicano girl, reminds the audience of the importance of learning from past experience in order to form an identity entirely based on the individuals own volition. Sandra Cisneros, The author of House on Mango Street, uses Esperanza's struggles caused by her race,gender, and economic status to instill the theme of identity.

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.

On average 40,093,000 people in the United States move annually. In the book The House on Mango Street the main character Esperanza and her family are included in this number. They Come very poor roots, and they don't have much money. They move often, one day dreaming to live in a real house, one they don't have to share, one with their own yard, with stairs that are not hallway stairs, etc. They finally move into this beaten up house on Mango street, Her family is in love with it and act like it's their dream, however it does not meet Esperanza`s standards. Despite her dislike for this house and her feelings of it not being her home her and her family grow drasticly and have major milestones in their life in this house, for example

“In the movies, there is always one with red red lips who is beautiful and cruel. She is the one who drives the men crazy and laughs them away. Her power is her own. She will not give it away” (89). Later in the novella, Esperanza wants to transform into the gal of the movies by attempting to be more desirable to men as well as being able to be herself. The lass takes her first shot to begin a “quiet war” by refusing to wash the dishes and pushing her chair in to be like a man that increases the hassle and work for other women, or in this case her mother. Although until later in the book, her mother advises her to be a “smart cookie” to stay in school and depend on herself than anyone else instead of having a childhood that would not lead her to her true potential. Esperanza later on befriends Sally with the same intentions of being sexually bold. Unlike Esperanza, Sally consistently hangs around boys who force her to do wrong things. Ultimately, the protagonist was manhandled, making Esperanza rethink her decision on converting into the movie girl.

Freud’s psychoanalytic theory plays a major role in literature, and it is usually described as psychoanalytic literary criticism. Moreover, the psychoanalytic theory incorporates two contradictory critical theories. The first theory focuses on the text itself without having influences of additional sources. From the view of first psychoanalytic theory, the reader can understand the text by analyzing the characters, dreams, conflicts, symbols, and the unconscious desires of the characters. Furthermore, the second theory argues that in the literary work, the dreams, desires, and emotions presented in the work are usually related to author’s own personal experience and the life. For instance, in order to understand the literary work of an

In The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros, a little girl from a Latino heritage is given birth to. Not literally, but in the sense of characterization. Esperanza is a fictional character made up by Cisneros to bring about sensitive, alert, and rich literature. She is the protagonist in the novel and is used to depict a female’s life growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Cisneros creates the illusion that Esperanza is a real human being to communicate the struggles of growing up as a Latina immigrant in a modern world, by giving her a name, elaborating her thoughts and feelings, and illustrating her growth as a person through major events.

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.

Esperanza can be described as a young teen who yearns for the individuality, the spirit of “a wild horse” that her great-grandmother once possessed in the midst of the oppression and discrimination the society has against women. Just as her great-grandmother was “carried off [...] as if she were a chandelier”, Esperanza feels that the culture is restraining her true self to show. She fears of losing her individuality to the workings of the world, becoming more and more like “a muddy color.” The same way her great-grandmother was captivated, “[looking] out the window her whole life”, Esperanza is inhibited from showing the energy and freedom of a stallion and ultimately, “[less] like the real [her]” She emphasizes on baptism, representing rebirth

The number 1 is a recurring theme in ¨Into the Wild¨. First, it is directly symbolized in the way that Chris is trying to complete his journey on his own. He backs this idea up by never wanting anyone’s help or money and doing things on his own. An instance of doing things on his own occured when he left with his car to begin his journey and drove and drove until his car broke down. Also, he found a job at McDonalds in order to get money for his rent of his trailer, instead of just rooming with one of his co workers for free. Also, the division line in the domino represents his uniqueness because him alone is different from any other person. He decided that this journey was a way to find the true meaning of life and not everything that makes him happy is given to him. This is how I feel a domino represents the story.