Where the Streets Have No Name

ENG1D1 – 09 29 April 2011 An Eventful Journey of Living on the Streets Character traits shape the people we all are. For example, they help us face our fears through courage; they show us right from wrong through responsibility; and they show us who to believe in tough decisions through trust. Dana, the protagonist from Eric Walters’ Sketches, has a tough time learning how to show her traits. However, as a child on the streets Dana fights through many tough obstacles that enable her to become

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

naïve thirteen-year-old girl is the main character on The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. I believe Esperanza will eventually leave Mango Street for a better and safer home. Throughout the book she kept saying she wanted to leave. She also brings up that she will not forget where she grew up. Esperanza starts out as a selfish girl and goes into a mature girl in the end, which makes me believe she will leave Mango Street. From the beginning, Esperanza is a young thirteen-year-old girl trying

One interesting thing about street art is that even with the negative connotations of illegal tagging and painting on public property, there’s still a huge market for public art. However, some artists do not want to be paid because they think street art is supposed to be a more free way to create art, and being paid for it would be “selling out”. While graffiti just used to be created in order to be known, both modern graffiti and street art has become a way for artists to break out of the conventional

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 that

I read On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City by Alice Goffman. The book takes place in the Sixth Street neighborhood of Philadelphia and follows the lives of three friends Mike, Chuck and Alex as well as some other people who live in the Sixth Street neighborhood. The book opens with Mike, Chuck and Alex playing dice. When Alex left the dice game to walk home he ended up getting jumped and getting his face beaten, he was left with a broken jaw, knocked out teeth, and a broken noise. Mike

in Sandra Cisneros’s novel, The House on Mango Street. In The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros the theme that majority of young women that grow up in an unstable community struggle with forming a personalized identity, and struggling with being independent. In The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros creates the theme that when a young girl is growing up without role models and a community that doesn’t support her development, she will have uncertainty in her identity and will search for

Race has been a part of people's judgement since its inception. We've heard many different situations of times where race has affected what people can do, how they're treated, and much more. A lot of the time, race is the first thing you notice about a person. When describing a person, race is often the first thing you tell someone. For a bulk of the 20th century, people in the United States were seperated by race. There were water fountains for just white people or an area of the buses just for

The House on Mango Street, a novella by Sandra Cisneros, revolves around the idea of a developing Latino girl facing the difficulties of transitioning to a young mature woman. Esperanza moves into a house on Mango Street, where she meets many diverse influential people as she attempts to discover her true identity and understanding of the world. While doing this, she encounters the struggles of her community, socioeconomic class, and heritage. Esperanza’s opposing view of herself slowly adjusts as

Different “We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.” (Mao Zedong). Every single person thinks, acts, and speaks individually. Everyone has different thoughts and perceptions of certain things. In The House On Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros the main character Esperanza’s thoughts and views change and evolve for the better from the beginning to the end of the story and