The House on Mango Street

Esperanza is dealing with many obstacles throughout her life but she keeps moving forward and getting past them. While at a carnival, Sally leaves Esperanza alone near some red clowns to leave with a boy. The clowns rape her and “He said I love you, Spanish girl, I love you, and pressed his sour mouth to mine” (Cisneros 100). Sally leaves her there without thinking she will be raped but she never comes back to get her. Esperanza doesn’t leave because she trusts that Sally will come back for her. Esperanza has to get past the incident and her way is by looking at the trees

Set in societies of social injustice, The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros and The Pearl by John Steinbeck tell the stories of two communities where racial oppression, gender roles, and social class divide society. The plot of The House on Mango Street centers largely around a young girl named Esperanza, who is battling racism towards the poor Latino community in Chicago Illinois, and the expectations of the role of a girl and a woman in her culture. Similarly, The Pearl focuses on the story of a young pearl diver Kino, his wife Juana, and his baby son Coyotito, who are battling against native oppression and misfortune that follows them like a plague after Kino discovers a

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” This quote by Helen Keller claims that in order to thrive, one needs hope and confidence. Esperanza happens to have both-- at least she eventually comes to have both. In her series of vignettes, “The House on Mango Street,” Sandra Cisneros writes of several of Esperanza’s experiences to show her evolution as a child into a woman. Esperanza starts as an insecure child, before beginning to gain confidence, and finally gaining that confidence. This evolution of Esperanza’s can be seen in the vignettes, “A Rice Sandwich,” “Papa Who Wakes Up Tired In The Dark,” and “Beautiful and Cruel” respectively. These experiences and vignettes that Cisnero covers

In all aspects of life, women are pressured to be someone they are not. They are put in situations that force them to chose a path of life. In “The House on Mango Street”, Esperanza is forced to think about leaving Mango Street in the future, because she is surrounded by women who are pushing her to become an adult.

The Vargas house is a house which contains countless children with only a single mother to care for them. The Vargas children are known for being savage, vulgar, and impolite. They do not care about anyone or anything including themselves. It is almost an everyday occurrence that these children get into great danger or trouble. Esperanza does not want to be mixed in with these type of people and deal with all this commotion. She makes a mature decision of not associating herself with them and finding other friends. When Esperanza is new to Mango Street she tells her younger sister, Nenny, not to make friends with the Vargas’. As Esperanza grows and matures, she is realizing who she wants her friends to be. Her Ideal friends were perhaps not

Sally is gorgeous, She wears lots of make-up and short skirts. Boys gossip about her. Her father won't let her out of the house because of her beauty Esperanza wants to be her best friend. She wishes she didn't have to go home after school. Esperanza is two years younger then Minerva. She has two children and is married. Her husband left her only to return later and then leave again.When the kids are asleep she writes poetry. Esperanza and Minerva share poems they wrote. It bothers Esperanza that after her husband comes back and beats her she still takes him back.

When first coming to this country as a Hispanic American you may face a lot of difficulties and find more problems than the average white American. Hispanic people go through different adversities and have trouble overcoming them. In The House on Mango Street the main character Esperanza is the one that narrates the story, she explains what it is like to live on Mango Street. She shows the readers that living on Mango Street is perceived as a terrible area, if one were looking from the outside in. But those that live there feel that they live in fair living conditions. The fact is most of the people who live on Mango Street don 't know what it 's like to live outside of mango street. In the story, they show a lifestyle that most Hispanic people deal with especially the ones that come to America and have to figure out how to make ends meet. In The House on Mango Street, the novel has many themes and problems, such as gender inequality, stereotypes, and language barriers. With short stories like "Aria" and "the myth of Latin Woman," a solution is always found. Sometimes there is a simple solution and other times, it is not so easy to find, or there 's just no solution to solving the characters problems and they are still trying to look for results.

The House on Mango Street, written by Sandra Cisneros, is a novel about a young girl growing up in the Latino area of Chicago. It is highly admired and is taught in a plethora of grade schools and universities. The House on Mango Street expresses the story of Esperanza Cordero, whose neighborhood is full of harsh realities and jarring beauty. Esperanza doesn’t want to belong- not to her run-down neighborhood, and not to the low expectations the world has for her. Esperanza’s story is of a young girl coming into her power, and inventing what she will become for herself. While Esperanza and the other women have many differences, as in the way she is fortunate to avoid the pitfalls of her environment and others are not, there are just as many

Significant motifs in House on Mango Street I. The recurring motifs in Sandra Cisneros novella “The House on Mango Street” that are most significant are the ones that mold the story and change it in good and bad ways. The people in this book represent a bigger picture of poor struggling and battling people in the real world. From the recurring degrading of women to the struggle of poverty and immigration, while battling loss of innocence. II.

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

In the vignette “Four Skinny Trees”, Esperanza realizes that she can reach high no matter where she is in life. Esperanza reaches out to the skinny trees when there is nobody else to understand her. She also uses the trees as motivation to grow big mentally from seeing how the trees grew. Four skinny trees, small and strong, teach Esperanza how to grow in a place where she doesn’t belong. The trees were placed in an environment that they were unable to grow. It was not possible for them grow out of concrete. But they survived and grew into the four skinny trees. This relates to Esperanza and her relationship with her neighborhood. Esperanza doesn’t belong in Mango Street, people expected that if she stayed on mango she could’ve turned into the people living on Mango Street. But no she didn’t change she became someone much different than the people on Mango Street. “Four who reached and do not forget to reach (75).” This quote shows that the trees showed to reach high no matter how small you are. Whenever Esperanza felt like that she can’t grow on Mango Street she always looked at the trees to see how they still persevere to grow big like others trees. In conclusion, the four trees in Esperanza's neighborhood inspire her to grow day by day.

In the book The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, Magdalena’s identity is shaped throughout her childhood by poverty, her hopes/desires, and disappointment.

In The House on Mango Street, the vignette “The Family of Little Feet” first seems like a random story, and is often disregarded, overlooked, and labeled “insignificant” because the story is oriented around three pairs of high-heeled shoes that arealmost immediately thrown away. As a result, seems like an arbitrary story that isn’t connected with the other vignettes. However, after careful reading, the story is relevant to the story since the shoes are a symbol that helps us further understand the characters and develops a theme.

Everybody has the dream of living in a nice house with a family, nice car and just overall living the contemporary lifestyle. What does it take to do that though? How can you succeed at living a healthy lifestyle? In the story The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros the protagonist Esperanza undergoes not being able to live the American dream. Growing up in Chicago in a poor neighborhood, things were just overall hard for her and her family. The obstacles to not being able to live the American dream are poverty, language border, and education.

I think Peeta wanted to be coached separately when he asked Haymitch to give them tips on how to survive. he told him being liked can help him to get sponsors. By getting sponsors it helps him it won't really help him win but it can help his district, he also wants people to like him for who he is not someone they want him to be. Peeta doesnt want to change for no one that's what makes him likeable. He try’s nice to everyone and calls Katniss to do the same but Katniss isn't good at making friends.