The House On Mango Street Nenny Analysis

This is an Assignment For my 9th-grade literacy class. We had to make a thematic statement on the Book The House on Mango Street” written by Sandra Cisneros. My thematic statement is Be careful because the worst can happen to the best of us. This is Relevant to us because It's true. The people Going through the recent hurricanes they didn't deserve to be ripped from their homes. Every 100 Seconds One American Is Assaulted. None of them deserved this a good portion of them are underage.

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.

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.

As a final point, Esperanza’s siblings also played an important role in her stages of growing up. The author uses this sentence to express that, "And then I don't know why, but I have to turn around and pretend I don't care about the box so Nenny won't see how stupid I am." (Pg. 20). This shows how Esperanza wants to be a role model for her younger sister Nenny, and this helps Esperanza become a strong independent woman as she grows up. If she never had a younger sister, Esperanza would have never learned how to become a role model for her siblings and even so other people. Without Esperanza's family and their important roles in her life, she wouldn't have become the person she grew up to be.

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.

The House on Mango Street is a collection of vignettes written by Sandra Cisneros that is about a young Mexican-American girl named Esperanza, and the struggles of her life as she transitions from childhood into adulthood. Esperanza wants to find her true identity, but the conflicts and struggles that she faces throughout the story. Her town is a part of her adventure to find her self identity. She picks herself up, learning and figuring herself out throughout the novel. The author uses symbolism throughout the vignettes to convey the deeper meaning of conflicts developed in the novel, to show the difficulties of growing into adulthood.

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

The story of my childhood is very present in my life every time I watch the Spanish programming on television. In the occasions I have free time from my daily routine I sit next my mother in the living room and talk about how different my childhood was in Mexico compared to my son’s here in California. We like to watch documentaries about the thirty two states and rural towns that surround each state in Mexico. Unlike the stories “Miss East LA” and My Ride My Revolution” by Luis J. Rodriguez my story does not begin in an urban city or in a diverse community like the south central area. Not even in a wealthy gated community or in the popular community of East Los Angeles.

Esperanza, the main character of The House on Mango Street, revolves around her teenage confusion to find her identity, but also becoming a strong and independent woman. She is very observant, and in order to form this foundation, Esperanza is influenced by the people around her and always looking for pathways to follow, through examples displayed within her neighborhood. She doesn’t want to throw her life away through marriage, or to be helpless and pretty like Sire’s girlfriend, bringing her to discover what it really means to achieve that desire of hers. Within the novel, Esperanza tries to get herself out of that loop of the women in her life have been swirled through, by attaining a new level of feminine power to consolidate her independence.

Major experiences and conflict that happen in one’s life while they are young help to shape one’s perceptions and personality. Conflict is a natural part of growing up. Adversity can help shape important and key parts of knowledge, personality, and problem solving skills Adversity builds personal experiences through conflict which helps establish a new aspect of one’s personality, reveal a new side of a person, and build strengths.

I can not relate to Esperanza here because I am the youngest child of my family, however I have witnessed my sister being scolded for “setting a bad example” for me. My parents told my sister that she is responsible for me because she is older than me, much like how Esperanza must care for her younger

These feelings are best expressed in the chapter “Four Skinny Trees” where Esperanza compares herself with four trees in her neighborhood that seem different to her. These ideas are articulated when she says “They are the only ones who understand me. I am the only one who understands them… Four who do not belong here but are... four whose only reason is to be and be.”(Cisneros 74) Esperanza anthropomorphised the trees to relate them to herself and make a comparison. Her relating to these trees show that she believes she does not belong on Mango street and stands out. Additionally, thinking that they are the only ones who understands her reveals that she feels alone and believes no person understands her struggles. Esperanza describes her house in the chapter “Mango Says Goodbye Sometimes”, and says “The house I belong but do not belong to”(109). This sentence expresses her belief that although she lives in her family's house on mango street she believes she can escape from it because she does not belong to the life she lives. This line of thought expressed in these chapters shows Esperanza doesn't think she belongs on mango street or the culture of lower class America that goes with it. Her thoughts of where she does belong and her hopes for the future are shown in the fantasies of a better life she has throughout the

1.Papa shows his love to the land by treating it with respect.In the story he shows Esperanza how the land is like a human being,and shows how she should trest it with respect. Papa shows respect to the land since he treats it with care and is gentle with the harvest.The land is important to the family because the harvest provides profit for them.Which helps them to maintain their style of life.

They were Esperanza's first real friends that did not make her feel bad about Mango Street. They are not very mature, but that is why Esperanza is friends with them. They help Esperanza experience a childhood of fun and games. When Esperanza is with Lucy and Rachel she notices more things about Nenny. Near the beginning of the book, when Nenny is mentioned, Esperanza only talks about how different they are. She talks about Nenny having different hair, a different and better name, and about Nenny being too young. But when she starts to hang out with Rachel and Lucy, Esperanza talks more about the similarities she shares with Nenny like their laugh and how they think "That's what I was thinking exactly" (Cisneros 18). So Lucy and Rachel affected Esperanza by helping bring her closer to Nenny and they helped her look on the bright side. Esperanza began maturing and sharing some of her knowledge about the sexuality of hips with them. Esperanza had talked about her similarities with Nenny, but she also shows a big difference between the two sisters. Esperanza shows her coming- of- age with her rymes and poems, but Nenny's poems are more conventional and childish. There was a time when they all became more mature and that was when they wore heels, but Esperanza did not like the feeling so she discarded both the shoes and the feeling of sexual maturity "Tuesday her mother, who is very clean, throws them away.

In a like manner, The House on Mango Street is set in a 1960’s hispanic impoverished community where women are not given the respect they rightfully deserve. A young girl named Esperanza decides not to surrender herself to women’s discrimination. Esperanza’s great-grandmother is married and regrets it after she spends all her days wondering what her life could have been, Esperanza then says she never wants to feel as her great-grandmother did. Esperanza says, “She looked out the window her whole life, the way so many women sit their sadness on an elbow. I wonder if she made the best with what she got or was she sorry because she could not be all the things she wanted to be.