Sandra Postel

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

Book Assignment For this book assignment I decided to read the book The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. Cisneros uses a series of vignettes to tell the story of Esperanza Cordero and a year of her life on Mango Street. Esperanza is a 12 year old Mexican-American girl, or Chicana, living in a congested Latino neighborhood located in the more poorer area of Chicago. The story begins with Esperanza’s family moving to a new house on Mango street which she describes as an upgrade from their

“Regrets are illuminations come too late.” Sandra Cisneros, author from Chicago, Illinois, touches on regret in her writing. Specifically in vignettes, “Edna’s Ruthie,” and “A Smart Cookie,” which make up apart of her novel, The House On Mango Street. Cisneros develops characters, and ultimately themes: hard work pays off and kindness isn’t always reciprocated through the use of dialogue. In the vignette, “A Smart Cookie,” Cisneros uses speech to develop complex characters. The dialogue weaves

materialistic should not force stigma and should show individualism, Gibran provides insight into the bullying through goods. In this way, he relates to Cisneros’s ideas through the usage of a house as a metaphor for good-created feelings of shame. In Sandra Cisneros’s House on Mango Street, Esperanza’s contesting views on her impoverished house demonstrate that she accepts her role in poverty, one of being left helpless and exploited by callous bullies and one of shamed individualism. Using Esperanza’s

In the novel, Esperanza Rising the author, Pam Munoz Ryan, masterfully uses figurative language to convey the rich story of her own heritage as a Mexican-American. The author uses several similes and metaphors to convey the deeper meaning of her story. However, the author’s use of a blanket image becomes particularly important as she uses it as an extended metaphor throughout the story. The first time that blankets are brought into the story, grandmother teaches Esperanza to crochet and she says

Growing up as a child could be looked at as a bumpy road. Average kid has everything they need; food, shelter, and of course water. Whether it is the nicest of places, or the greatest neighborhood, with the greatest food, now that’s a different story. Here, The House on Mango Street takes short stories called vignettes, all of which are told from the perspective of a thirteen-year old girl named Esperanza. As the story goes on, I notice how naïve Esperanza is. She definitely does not understand the

Identity “You will always be Esperanza. You will always be Mango Street. You can’t erase what you know. You can’t forget who you are” (41). In the coming-of-age novel, The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, Identity is portrayed through how one girl struggles to find herself. The main character Esperanza is struggling to fit in. She feels like the odd one out due to her race, gender, and the environment she lives in. Race is a big factor in the book especially because at this time

fulfill a dream? Every person may have a different view towards the answer to this question. Personally, I believe this means your strong impulse to follow and conquer what you feel most passionate about. In the novel, The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros ,the main character Esperanza shares her journey through life and her longing desire to leave the house she lives on Mango Street forever. Throughout the novel there are multiple themes that transpire during Esperanza's life. Although each

“My Name” by Sandra Cisneros is a short excerpt from her book The House on Mango Street (1984). In this excerpt, Cisneros narrator is a girl named Esperanza, who is telling us that her name reminds her of a lot of negatives things, including who she inherited it from. Esperanza is trying to convince us that her name is a terrible name, which is built up of negativity and bad history. She state that she was named after her great-grandmother, who was born in the Chinese year of the horse, which they

Back in the day when our parents were growing up it wasn’t the same social standers. Girls didn’t have to deal with such high expectations. Adults usually can’t relate to our situation. In the two essays, Mary Piper’s, “Saplings in the Storm” and Sandra Cisneros “Barbie-Q”, gave a better perspective of girls going through adolescents. During this stage in their life they have to deal with social norms, which pressures girls to compare themselves to others and strive to be an unrealistic model of