The House On Mango Street Cisneros Analysis

I think that when Esperanza says on page 89, "I have decided not to grow up tame like the other who lay their necks on the threshold waiting for the ball and chain", she is speaking of women like Rafeala, her great-grandmother, or Sally whom traded their futures for married life. She sees how they all are trapped with their husbands and are stuck inside their homes. She feels as though these women looked toward married life to find security. She felt like the did what was expected of them; in other words they were tame. Esperanza wants her independence and knows that she will not find it the kind of lives that these women settled for. She feels that she must be different, to shirk that pre-decided type of behavior that is well accepted by the

People from all over the world change, change in either mentality, thoughts, maturity, physically, mentally, appearance, feelings and etc. What causes the transformation of that person is important, but how much did it affect them is also crucial. In Sandra Cisneros novel, entitled The House on Mango Street,the story depicts a Latina girl who transform throughout her time being on Mango Street. The girl named Esperanza is to faced obstacles of female oppression that she witnesses in the life of women on her street who they depends on men to bring them out of the street. In The House on Mango Street, Cisneros uses characterization to express the

Topic sentence: Cisneros describes Esperanza’s experiences in the book of being in the same ethnic community which provides comfort to its inhabitants.

“You will always be Esperanza. You will always be Mango Street. You can't erase what you know. You can't forget who you are” (105). No matter what, Esperanza’s experiences on Mango Street have become a part of her and she cannot change it. In the novella, The House on Mango Street, written by Sandra Cisneros, the author introduces Esperanza, a resident of Mango Street, who constantly dreams of becoming an independent woman with a house of her own ideals. As she and her family purchase a house and become a newcomer into a new neighborhood of a crowded and poor Latino area, Esperanza faces mental and physical changes that affect how she sees the world. Sadly, the characteristics of the house consist of nothing of her desires. Due to her

“The House on Mango Street” by Sandra Cisneros is a unique piece of literature that brings an interesting style of writing to life. Cisneros writes in vignettes that are as powerful as they are short and to the point. These snapshot stories illustrate the life of a young adolescent girl named Esperanza, who is trying to understand the ways of life, and fit in her culture. She learns that some of her expectations don’t quite match with the reality of her world and every action has a consequence. This is a prevalent topic throughout the book as Esperanza is growing up and facing life’s challenges as a female teenager in 1984.

Gender role plays an important role in Sandra Cisneros’s novel The House on Mango Street. The role of women in a patriarchal society is one of the most important themes in the novel. The main character Esperanza, along with other women have to face a lot of difficulties caused by gender inequality. Esperanza 's disappointment begins as she moves into the new community and witness the way women are treated. Cisneros introduces gender stereotypes to demonstrate to the reader that gender roles can create barriers for women which affects their self-definition, their desires and their decision of improvement and development. In my opinion, the novel revolves around women’s dreams, self-determination and Esperanza’s courage to break the gender stereotypes and empower each other in spite of facing sexual assault and not being able to live a joyous life.

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

Sandra Cisneros, an Hispanic-American author, is most known for her first novel, The House on Mango Street. The story follows a young Latina girl named Esperanza who moves to a low-income Chicago neighborhood and encounters new people and experiences new challenges, one of which is the struggle of choosing to be desired and looked at by men or being independent. Most, if not all, of the women in the novel are often perceived as powerless since they are usually stuck in some type of relationship, whether it be with a possessive man or needy children. Three specific women are Rafaela, a woman whose husband literally traps her in their relationship, Minerva, a girl who can not seem to say no to her abusive husband, and Sally, a young girl who

Throughout The House on Mango Street, there’s a recurring theme of Esperanza being ashamed of where she lives. She’s ashamed of the house on Mango Street especially, but she’s also annoyed by how her family is constantly moving. Furthermore, she’s ashamed of her family’s hunger for a house of their own. This is shown in the vignette, Bums in the Attic, where Esperanza stops going with her family to admire the house where her father works because, as she says, “I am tired of looking at what we can’t have” (pg. 86). I can really relate to all of Esperanza’s house/home-related anxiety as my family has also moved around a lot

My favorite vignette from The House on Mango Street is the one titled ‘Those Who Don’t’. This handles the theme of suspicion and stereotyping between races. One quote that succinctly sums up this vignette is the first sentence with “Those who don’t know any better come into our neighborhood scared” (p.28). This begins the theme of how fear and stereotyping come from miseducation and ignorance. Cisneros writes that only those who do not understand the nuances and personalities of the people inside the Latino neighborhood are afraid of being in it. The people who are not prejudiced or who have taken the time to know and understand the families and neighborhood would understand that in many ways it is just like any other place on earth. The people

Esperanza's overall opinion on sex and romance are like a storybook. Or at least that's what she has been told. She thinks that romance is a fairytale and prince charming is supposed to sweep her off her feet and fall in love with her. One of Esperanza's friends tells her everything. she talks about love with her friend sally, sally told her everything there is to know about love. She told her everything about Sally told her that falling in love is amazing and all she wanted to do was fall in love with someone who felt the same way. Everyone thinks that sally is crazy for thinking all of that but esperanza does not. She thinks that it's really sweet and she believes that sally will find someone.

When I see the word "community" I think of two things: a group of people who live in the same area and a group of people who share a bond with one another. Foremost, I believe that having a sense of duty to ones "community" has a deeper meaning when the "community" is made up with those who share a deeper connectivity then just living in the same place. For Esperanza, though, I believe that they are close to being one in the same. I think that if she looked at the word "community" means to her, she would think of those who live on Mango Street, not all of those who live in the same city as her. Those who she lives next to share a bond made from similar economic and oppressive experiences. I think that if we look as "community" as a group of

When people face obstacles they forget that those same experiences and tragedies often shape an individual's outlook on life and inspire personal growth from within. The novel, The House on Mango Street reminds its readers that even in the worst of times there are still lessons 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, shows 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 The House on Mango Street, uses Esperanza's struggles caused by her race,gender, and economic status to instill the theme of self discovery through one's identity.

In this essay I will be comparing and contrasting about the two stories. .Cisneros from the house on mango street Chapter 1 and” When I left my country” from our class collection of vignettes.

Marxist Criticism is understanding the analysis between money, power, and social classes. This theory focuses on the poor and lower classes which deals with the roles of the social class and ideology (Shmoop). It is also the relationships among social classes that explains human activity in terms of distribution of economic power. The goal to use this literary theory is to identify the ideology and how that ideology supports the socioeconomic system (Brizee). Religion, race, ethnicity, and gender has a role to where there are differences in the social classes. To portray the differences between the upper, middle, and lower classes and their conflicts within each other, it is reflected in literature and other forms of expression that can tell people the struggles between these classes (Brizee).