Sandra Postel

Trapped Women The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros revolves around Esperanza Cordero and the women in her life who remind her of what she doesn't want to be, and who she might become. Most of the women she knows are trapped––like her mother, her best-friend, her neighbors, and her great grandmother––and Esperanza desperately wants to break free in order to avoid reaching the same place of unhappiness and regret they are currently at. Living at the house on Mango Street allows her to discover

In The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, interactions with different women impact Esperanza’s coming of age and lead her to a point in life where she is ready to move away and become independent. Through these women, Esperanza is faced with situations that inform her about the real world that she is about to experience. A negative example of this real world is set through Minerva who is not much older than Esperanza, is already tied down by being married and having two children. Minerva has

Ellen Clacy True, Diarist and Illustrator This is the writing of a true, Diarist and illustrator who wrote about her life on the gold fields of Ballarat. Her name is Ellen Clacy. If we didn’t have her books we wouldn’t have known about a lot of the importance of the gold rush as we do nowadays. Ellen Clacy was born in the year 1820 in London, England. She had one brother named Frederick, a mother called Ellen Louisa Sturma (1830-1901) and a father called Charles Berry Clacy (1825-1882). Ellen

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, was written in 1984. The novel features the story of a Latina girl, named Esperanza, growing up in inner city Chicago. The story is told through a multitude of vignettes that showcase the struggles Mexican immigrants face in America. Although set in 1984, The House on Mango Street continues to be relevant with the enduring debate over Mexican immigrants in America today. Mexicans first “came” to America after the Mexican-American War. Mexico had ceded

identities and goals. Despite technical advancements in communities changing rapidly, the migration of people and their cultural histories has never failed to make urban cities such as Chicago unique and diverse. The House on Mango Street, written by Sandra Cisneros, introduces the topics of education, the eagerness to “escape” poverty, and the struggle of growing up female to readers, ultimately showcasing the difficulty of being raised in a low income home, common in highly populated areas. Despite

“The House on Mango Street” was written to explain the lives of a family living in poverty in 1984. Coming from Esperanza’s point of view, this book gave her siblings and friends an idea of who the real Esperanza was and what her priorities were. In this book, Esperanza moves from city to city, house to house, with her family hoping for a real house. When she gets to the house on Mango Street, it is not what she expects. She meets new friends and has some crazy experiences. This book has many societal

Woman Hollering creek is a book of stories published in 1991 Sandra Cisneros. These stories talk about the experience she had being around American influences while still being around her Mexican heritage. Cisneros grew up north of the Mexico-US border. These stories focus on the social roles of women and their relationships. In her stories her characters are stereotypes. For example that men are macho and woman are weak. Cisneros talks about three clichés: the virgin, seductress and mother. The

Can living in poverty really define who you are as a person, or what your identity is? Are you subject to the fact that you are living in poverty? In the book The House on Mango Street written by Sandra Cisneros, the main character, Esperanza, struggles with this problem. Esperanza and her family are moving to a different house on Mango Street in the city of Chicago. Esperanza deals with many different things through her first year moving in, and some of them will really have a tremendous impact

Poverty on Mango Street The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros is a novella following the experiences of a growing young latino girl, dealing with poverty and the harsh realities of life as a girl in a bad neighborhood. Esperanza has been exposed to many traumatic experiences in a gradience. It began with an non consensual kiss, soon after followed by rape and sexual abuse. She grew up with other bad influences in her neighborhood, such as Joe the baby grabber and abusive husbands and fathers

In The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisernos, the main character, Esperanza, goes from having a negative outlook on life to a positive one. Many difficult situations Esperanza faces show her changing perspective on the world around her. An example of Esperanza’s negativity is her feelings towards her home. Esperanza and her family move into a new house, on the not-so perfect, Mango Street. Esperanza has this dream of a “...white [house] with trees around it, a great big yard and grass growing