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    these are a few reasons that push people to be willing to change. People are usually hesitant to go through a major change, but having the opportunity for a successful outcome motivates people to pursue their dream of change. In the book The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, the main character Esperanza can be seen going through the mental struggle of whether or not she wants to risk everything and change into the person she wants to be. Cisneros story revolves around a young latino girl named

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    The House on Mango Street is a coming of age novel, focusing on the life of a young Latina girl named Esperanza Cordero. Esperanza’s early life consisted of moving around fairly often with her growing, yet awfully poor, family. Finally, her and her family moved ended up in the house on Mango Street where Esperanza would find her purpose in life. This is where Esperanza decided she would make a better life for herself. With that came the hope that she could also come back to the house on mango street

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    Esperanza is torn between deciding whether she wants to escape Mango Street. She is embarrassed by the superficial appearance of her identity, but appreciates her roots. Her house is a wreck and the neighborhood, probably not much better off. However, she has loving family and friends. Although marriage has caused the suffering of many of the women in her neighborhood, she realizes that she needs men to fulfill the new desires she attains as she hits adolescence. Through the novel, Esperanza matures

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    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. Throughout the novel, Esperanza tells us that she doesn’t like the house on Mango Street. When we first meet her, she tells us about

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    them, cook, and clean. In the texts, “The House on Mango Street”, by Sandra Cisneros, and “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian”, by Sherman Alexie, two teenagers are faced with obstacles due to the expectations of their surroundings. Even though many times expectations are created with good intentions, many people feel heartache throughout their life because of their failure to achieve

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    image. Likewise, the novel, The House on Mango Street, effectively employs the strategy of symbolism to transform messages that are initially viewed as simple into messages that have deeper meaning. While

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    2/22/24. Esperanza's Sense of Belonging The novel The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros is set in the 1960s and follows 12-year-old Esperanza Cordero throughout her time on Mango Street. The book takes us through the ups and downs of her seemingly complex childhood life. The book starts with Esperanza's stance on the house she lives in. Her family has moved house to house every year, each being worse than the previous. The House on Mango Street is described as “small and red with tight steps. Bricks

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    In the novel The House on Mango Street the author Sandra Cisneros talks about a lot of issues that would be considered controversial. The controversial topics that are discussed in this novel would be rape, immigration, poverty, and religion and of course the role of women in society. The author shows that the issues discussed are not just issues that have a statistic attached to them. These issues effect real people in their everyday lives. They are issues that affect everyone they come across;

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    In the novella, The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisnero, Esperanza learns the importance of not forgetting her roots. Esperanza, a young Latina girl and the novel’s main character wants to change her name and move far away from Mango Street. The reason being is so that she can play a bigger role in society, but she knows that she cannot deny her heritage and where she came from. Cisnero shows that a person’s past and experiences can help shape and form who they are. She displays this by making

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    In a series of vignettes, The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros, covers a year in the life of Esperanza, who is about twelve years old. During the year, she moves into a house on Mango Street. It is the first home her parents actually own, however she has had a plethora apartments in her life. However, the house is not what Esperanza has dreamed of, for the reason that it is run-down and cramped. For the duration of the vignettes, the readers watch Esperanza struggle but overall mature. In

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