Who Is Esperanza In The House On Mango Street

Imagine there was a friend who was a different race and went through many experiences? Similar to Esperanza, in the novel, The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, Esperanza develops maturely as a daughter, sister, friend, student, employee, teenage girl and dreamer throughout the book. Esperanza is a teenage girl whose parents immigrated from place to place, from Mexico to Chicago. She has siblings with various personalities, ranging from immature to grown. Esperanza and her family moves into a house on Mango Street, where she creates and burry many childhood memories that may or may not be unforgettable. While living in the Mexican-populated neighborhood, Esperanza experiences many situations, ranging from sexual abuse to deaths. Esperanza

Sandra Cisneros’ novel, “The House on Mango Street,” is about the adventures and ways of a small side street. We get to see how the main character, Esperanza grows and matures throughout her time on Mango Street. Since the book is written in first person, Esperanza expresses her thoughts and feeling straight to the reader. In the novel, Mango street typically houses residents with poor backgrounds, and is used as a temporary home for most. Although many people who live on Mango street move out in a short period of time, Esperanza stays in the house she hates longer than anyone else. She constantly watches her friends leave, and has to make new friends every time someone moves in. After experiencing this many times, I believe that Esperanza no longer continues to see herself as a resident on Mango street, but a part of Mango street. This is her distinct point of view compared to the others on mango street.

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

Throughout the course of Mango Street, Esperanza’s relationship towards her house change. As time passes her feelings about the house itself change and the emotional impact of the house of her changes as well. Esperanza’s house on Mango Street symbolizes her Mexican culture. For so long she has wanted to leave it. She envisions a different type of life than what she is used to - moving from house to house. “this house is going to be different / my life is going to be different”. One can look at all the things she envisions - the "trappings of the good life" such as the running water, the garden etc. as symbols for the new life.

In conclusion, we know that Esperanza’s negativity of herself begins to slowly change as she slowly experience what accepting means and how she began to accept where she was from . Throughout this book, Cisnero showed us accepting is an important part of growing in life as well as determining the true you. In the beginning she hated her life always wanted to escape out of Mango Street versus the end she says she is going to come back. From the beginning to the end, Esperanza finally accepted where she was from and how Mango Street has developed who she became

Esperanza had always desired a new home, but realizes Mango Street will always be a part of her. “I knew then I had to have a house. A real house. One I could point to. But this isn’t it” (5). At first Esperanza wanted an escape from Mango Street, she was embarrassed of where she came from. But as she grows as a person and is exposed to devastations in other people's lives around her, she realizes something much more ugly than just the looks of Mango Street. “You must keep writing. It will keep you free, and I said yes, but at that time I didn’t know what she meant” (61). Writing kept Esperanza free, and helped her cope with her problems. Esperanza later perceives why her aunt wanted her to continue writing, because not everyone had something to set them free from Mango Street. “They will not know I have gone away to come back. For the ones who cannot out”(110). Instead of leaving to never return, Esperanza realizes the women in her community have it

The family in House on Mango Street is not the perfect family but who is? Esperanza the main character in House on Mango Street, is a young girl who looks at life from an experience of living in poverty, where many do not question their experience she did, maybe on accident, but for the better.

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.

Although the United States of America is the richest country in the world, a majority of children grow up in poverty. Often when children have to grow up in a poor enviroment, their self-esteem drops because they are ashamed of how they live. In the novel, The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros which is written as a series of vignette, the protagonist, Esperanza, is negative and questions her self-worth. She is not living the American dream; instead, she battles against herself since she is not living the life she sees on television. Esperanza unravels her identity as she grows up with hardships in a poverty-stricken environment.

In the book Esperanza is a dynamic character because of how she is at the beginning of the story, when she changes and why she changes. Esperanza’s personality changes from the beginning to the end. She has a teenager personality, one that makes her care about how she looks like what people think about her. In the chapter “Chanclas” She really starts to care, She thinks “My feet scuffed and round, and the heels crooked that look dumb with this dress, so I sit” (47). This point in the story she really starts to become a teenager because she starts to really care and think about what he apperance looks like.

Esperanza as she grows as a person begins to understand and recognize this occurring in not only her own family, but in her neighborhood families as well. Gender expectations of the inhabitants on Mango St. are that the men have authority and power over the women and the women are just expected to let it happen. One way Esperanza transcends these gender expectations is at a young age, she pays notice to these happenings and she does not want to be trapped like the women in her family before her had been. On page 11, of “The House on Mango Street”, by Sandra Cisneros, Esperanza explains this

In the book House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros does her best to truly capture the personality of her characters. She establishes Esperanza’s personality by making her react to certain factors she can not alter in her life. Esperanza reacted to meeting a lot of new people, having to observe her siblings, and moving a lot. She notices certain aspects of people that nobody else would even consider. Her eye’s capture each and every flaw and feature of somebody. Readers can infer from Esperanza’s way of expressing herself, that she is unquestionably an observant person.

If Esperanza’s great-grandfather would have cared enough to treat Esperanza as a person rather than a prize, he would have gotten to know her. Only then would he have known that Esperanza was like a wild horse and should not have been domesticated as so many women are. Many women were treated this way simply because most people and even many of the women believed they were meant solely to be wives and to give their husbands children. What they did not realize is that women have the right to choose what they want to do with their lives. They do not have to be mothers.

In The House on Mango Street, Esperanza's struggle to define herself underscores her every action and encounter. Esperanza's identity is something that she struggles with throuhout the whole book. She eventually defines herself as a woman, with that her perception of her identity changes within the novel. Putting all of the pieces of her identity, such as her economic status, ethnicity, and gender together is one of the main struggles of the story. Like many of the issues that come up in The House on Mango Street, status and class are discussed in an indistinct way.

Every year she donates money to poors because she knows how hard is being poor. In the novel House on Mango street by Sandra Cisneros, Esperanza is a young hopeless girl who tries to find her own power and the possible way to escape the Mango Street. As she writes about people on Mango Street, she finds the strength to escape Mango Street that is her