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    The House On Mango Street Though Sandra Cisneros’ “The House on Mango Street” brings up several aspects of young Esperanza’s internal conflict, her discovering what comprises her identity is the most prominent point throughout the story. While the reader watches a young girl grow up, they also watch her question all of her observations that shape her perception of herself. As she deals with life’s harsh reality in her low-income neighborhood, the hardships she faces make her question who she really

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    matter what. In The House on Mango Street, the concept of home is shown a lot in the story and a large portion of Esperanza's character development is her initial disdain for the house and how it has evolved past that. By the end of the story, Esperanza is able to realize that this house has become a home for her and she can look back upon it in a memorable and bittersweet nostalgic way while looking forward rather than longing for a utopia. Throughout the novel, Esperanza sees the house differently and

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    more for a child that has to go through it at a young age. But what actually takes people far to succeed in life is to work diligently and to never capitulate. Esperanza Cordero, a girl who dreams are significant, is the main character on The House On Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, who represents the females of her needy neighborhood who desire to enhance and change themselves despite their surroundings and restrictions while she struggles to confront her neighborhood’s poverty. Because of her Mexican

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    Sonia Trejo Per 4 3-5-16 “ The House on Mango Street.” “They will not know I have gone away to come back. For the ones I left behind. For the ones who cannot out.” ( chapter 44, page 110.) “ The House on Mango Street,” by Sandra Cisneros is a classic book in which discusses coming-of- age. Esperanza who's a Latina girl growing up in Chicago, struggles to define herself and underscore her every encounter and actions. Also, Esperanza identity

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    Literary devices may be used to add more dimension and description to writing, but they can also show multiple characters’ perspectives, too. These perspectives can portray insights on characters that show true personalities. In The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, certain examples of literary devices are strategically used to do so. The story includes different vignettes that guides through the main character’s, Esperanza’s life. Each vignette illuminates Esperanza’s problems and outlooks

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    House on Mango Street Essay In the novel The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros, the protagonist Esperanza struggles growing up in the lower class of Chicago. Esperanza is in a critical period of her life where she transitions to becoming more of an adult, but she does not want to accept the world of the lower class she lives in. She feels she does not fit in or belong in her community and isn't sure why. Esperanza imagines about how one day she will be independent and not be reliant on any

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    Justin Johnson Honor English IV September 7th, 2017 (Due Date) Summer Reading Assignment: The House on Mango Street 1. a. In the novel 5 examples of how boys and girls live in separate universes and their impact on girls’ lives are as follows: One example from the novel is, “The boys and the girls live in separate worlds. The boys in their universe and we in ours.” In the world of Esperanza's childhood, there is a separate universe between boys and girls (and, accordingly, between men and women)

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    Just by looking at the front cover of The House on Mango Street, one could grasp an idea of what the novel is about and how it is presented. It is a story, decorated with colorful detail and authenticity, of a girl adjusting to a new home and growing up. In the introduction to the novel, Cisneros paints a picture of who she had been at the time she had written this novel. Cisneros discusses how as a girl she always wanted to move into a standalone house as opposed to the apartments she had been living

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    young girls within the Hispanic culture represented in The House on Mango Street are forced into roles they do not wish to take, resulting in a loss of identity and ultimately, a sense of powerlessness in the girl without anyone to show her how to be powerful. When Esperanza experiences awful situations somewhere she has happy childhood memories, it begins the loss of her

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    works, in particular, have been major agents to this cause, serving as both reminders of those struggles and remembrance to readers of the endeavors those authors sought to accomplish. Two particular works, The Awakening by Kate Chopin and The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, spearheaded movements for freedom by tackling the prejudice of gender roles, expressing through their novels’ characters and experiences the arguments for individual freedom and the challenges that must be conquered to achieve

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