Sandra Oh

Whether we are aware of it or not contact zones are prevalent throughout are daily lives. I try to look past it and I feel like we all do but it’s something I can’t escape. I’m constantly reminded of the contact zone that we live in whether by the personal experience, word of mouth, or the media. I see the fight between multiple cultural groups, leading to the oppression of the inferior group and the dominance of the superior group. The social differences of people have been around since man existed

In The House On Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, characters are used to demonstrate the female gender role. This is shown very early on in the book when Esperanza talks about her little sister, “Nenny is too young to be my friend. She’s just my sister and that was not my fault. You don’t pick your sisters, you just get them and sometimes they come like Benny. She can’t play with those Vargas kids or she’ll turn out just like them. And since she comes right after me, she is my responsibility” (Location

The House on Mango Street In the book, The House on Mango Street Sandra Cisneros shows us many examples of women through the eyes of a young girl named Esperanza. Esperanza constantly sees the negative side of society standards toward women. Being pressured to marry from her culture and community; Esperanza questions her future and concludes that she wants to be independent and not rely on a man for happiness. Cisneros suggest to the reader that being a women doesn’t define your

NEW/OLD Title: The House on Mango Street Author: Sandra Cisneros Main Characters (Protagonist/Antagonist), Title, & Traits: Esperanza – narrator – writer/storyteller, matures throughout story (dynamic/developing character), outcast, confused, growing/maturing/coming of age Mama – domestic, safe place for Esperanza, somewhat clueless Papa – boss, strict, “straight” Nenny – Esperanza’s younger sister, they are more alike than Esperanza likes to admit, childish Alicia – forced to grow up/act as

Esperanza, the protagonist in the House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, is a character who feels like she doesn't belong and struggles to find herself. Throughout the novel she is able to make connections between elements in the environment and that relate directly to her own life. For example, she identifies with The Four Skinny Trees, who appear to be out of place. Esperanza compares herself to the trees because she thinks that like the trees she does not belong on Mango Street. They greatly

The portrayal of gender in The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros promotes negative stereotype or gender inequality through the various reality of how every gender is delineated in the author’s particular society. In the chapter “Rafaela Who Drinks Coconut and Papaya Juice on Tuesdays,” Cisneros states, “Rafaela, who is still young/gets locked indoors because her husband is afraid Rafaela will run away since she is too beautiful to look at” (79). Rafaela wants to escape from being imprisoned

The House on Mango Street is a novel on the growth of a young girl named Esperanza going through the challenges of puberty in a Latino neighborhood in Chicago. She wishes to be different from all the other women who have lived on Mango Street, because they have lived unfortunate lives. She wishes to have “a house all my own … a space for myself to go” (“A House of My Own” 108), to be an independent person, unlike most of the women, who have tied themselves down or have been tied down by their boyfriends

In The House On Mango Street , by Sandra Cisneros the symbol shoes are relevant. For example, “The old saddle shoes I wear to school, brown and white, the kind I get every September,”(pg. 47 Cisneros). This shows Esperanza is wearing a new dress, new underclothes, new socks, but the old saddle shoes. This also shows Esperanza is being laughed at for wearing old shoes, but new clothes. Another example, “I want to buy shoes just like yours, like your black ones made out of suede,”( pg. 82 Cisneros)

events can happen to anyone. It depends on who you are, what you do, and where you’re at. In this case Esperanza is a mature little girl in her pre-teens but struggles through dreadful events that she doesn’t deserve. In The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros utilizes young characters to remind us about the things we take for granted and how some people aren’t so fortunate to live in a nice neighborhood opposed to a dangerous one where dreadful events happen to innocent people. In The House on

The House On Mango Street written by Sandra Cisnero was a very well thought-out and well written novel that I enjoyed thoroughly. The novel is compiled with many short stories, vignettes from the perspective of the main character, Esperanza Cordero. The vignettes are about her life living in the neighbourhood of Mango Street. I compare myself to a character... I compare myself to Esperanza because of the age is and how mature she becomes through the course of the book. Esperanza is going thru changes