The House on Mango Street

Min Seo Hyun (Mary) Grade 8 Ms.Birute 28th/Aug/2017 Mango Street Interpretive Essay Outline: A. Introduction Hook: House on Mango Street is a narrative book about one girl named Esperanza who live in Mango street and tell us that what is happening to Mango Street at the point view of Esperanza. Thesis statement: Esperanza has a variety of female role models in her life. Many are trapped in abusive relationships, waiting for others to change their lives. Some are actively

Cisneros is viewed as a strong author for Latinos and specifically women. In her book, The House on Mango Street, Cisneros writes the novel in both English and Spanish. She even dedicates her book to, “A las Mujeres/To the Women.” Throughout the story, Cisneros introduces her audience to many female characters and the lives of the characters as well. Esperanza, the protagonist in the House on Mango Street, is followed as she grows older and begins to find herself and her sexuality. This book is a

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 Mango Street, Esperanza narrates “One day ill own my own house, but I won’t forget who I am or where I came from. Passing bums will ask, Can I

The House on Mango Street is a bildungsroman about a young Latina girl, named Esperanza Cordero, who has various struggles while she is searching to determine who she is and where she belongs in this world. The author, Sandra Cisneros, addresses several themes in the book of which three are significant; language barrier, self discovery, and gender roles. Throughout the book The House on Mango Street, notably in the chapter “No Speak English”, the language barrier is clearly evident. Those who

House on Mango street. Sandra cisneros novel, The house on mango street, is describing the problems latino face in society. A society that is mostly dominated by men, and a society that is juges women on what they look like, instead of judging them on what's inside. Cisneros wants us to see the daily complications a latina woman must face in order to be treated like everyone else. The novel also talks about how females should be loyal to their husband. And love is not something they should rely

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 view of her house as an unlikable symbol that deteriorates

The House on Mango Street Analysis When people face obstacles they forget that those same experiences and tragedies often shape an individual's outlook on life and inspire personal growth from within. The novel, The House on Mango Street reminds its readers that even in the worst of times there are still lessons to be learned as seen through the eyes of a girl named Esperanza. The coming of age story deals with dark underlying struggles blanketed in the innocent viewpoint of a child forced

Snoop Dogg once said “It's hard to say goodbye to the streets. It's all how you do it. You can pass by and say, what's happening?’and keep moving on, but it’s a certain element that’ll never be able to roll with you once you get to this level, because that's the separation of it all.” This quote relates to the heartfelt novel The House On Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros because they both involve moving on. In the novel the author used many literary techniques such as syntax and figurative language

“I want to be like the waves on the sea, like the clouds in the wind, but I’m me. One day I’ll jump out of my skin. I’ll shake the sky like a hundred violins” (60). In the story “The House on Mango Street”, the author Sandra Cisneros uses sentences full of imagery, metaphors, and word games, to show how self definition is a result of the people and places surrounding you. This is represented throughout the book when Esperanza wants to change her name, living in a male dominated society, and when

The Loss of Innocence on Mango Street Often in literature, authors create plot by writing about characters maturing throughout the story. One work that explores childhood to adulthood is The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. In this novella, Esperanza Cordero is a young girl who lives in a poverty stricken area in Chicago. During the story, Esperanza grows up from being an adolescent to a young adult. In the novella, the theme is that losing innocence brings about maturity. Cisneros expresses