Analysis Of The House On Mango Street By Sandra Cisneros

All the people on Mango Street were struggling to get by, but they seemed satisfied with just making it. Esperanza was not. There were characters like Esperanza’s mother who was a “smart cookie,” and could’ve been anything, but she let shame get the best of her and dropped out of school. There was also Rafaela who got married before the 8th grade just so she could move into her own house, but her husband never let her leave the house afterward. He never let her see her friends, and the highlight of her week was getting coconut or papaya juice from someone who would send it up in a paper bag attached to a clothespin since she couldn’t leave the house. Lastly, there was the time when she was left stranded by the tilt-a- whirl waiting for a friend that never came back and got molested by a group of boys. The only witnesses were the red clown statues that seemed to be laughing at her. Nevertheless, she let none of this stopped her from going forward and perusing her dream. She still seemed to be struggling with a sense of belonging, but maybe that’s because she didn’t.

She was born in Chicago, Illinois. Cisneros grew up in a Latino family around the 1950s and 1960s. She had a Mexican father and Chicano mother. Cisneros was encouraged by her mother to read and was not insisted with spending all of her time performing classic “women’s work”. Cisneros welcomes her culture with open arms, but acknowledges the unjustness between the genders within. Having experience growing up in a poor neighborhood in a working class family while facing the difficulties created by racism, sexism, and her status, Esperanza longed to leave the barrio. Later, she finds her capability to succeed individually and find a “home with herself”; she worked to recreate some Chicano stereotypes for her community. Cisneros didn’t want to

Sandra Cisneros is a latina born in Chicago in 1954. She is the only daughter out of seven of her siblings. She worked as a teacher and counselor to high-school dropouts, as an artist-in-the-schools where she taught creative writing at every level except first grade and pre-school, a college recruiter, an arts administrator, and as a visiting writer at a number of universities including the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Michigan. When she began writing books it was soon translated into many languages such as Spanish, French, Dutch, Italian and many more. She is very proud of her family. Her grandfather even played piano for the mexican president. She is know mostly for her famous book, ‘The House on Mango Street’. The book was based off her neighborhood that she grew up In Chicago. In 1995,

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.

In The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros, a little girl from a Latino heritage is given birth to. Not literally, but in the sense of characterization. Esperanza is a fictional character made up by Cisneros to bring about sensitive, alert, and rich literature. She is the protagonist in the novel and is used to depict a female’s life growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Cisneros creates the illusion that Esperanza is a real human being to communicate the struggles of growing up as a Latina immigrant in a modern world, by giving her a name, elaborating her thoughts and feelings, and illustrating her growth as a person through major events.

The House on Mango Street, is a great book for high school students to read, it talks about a lot of different topics that need to be talked about like gender, neighbors, tradition, family, shame, obligation, and denial. Almost no topic is ignored with this book buried in a 110 paged book. Its written by Sandra Cisneros where she portrays a character named Esperanza Cisneros, whose name means ¨hope” a named her inherited from her grand-mother, but didn't want her faith of being a housemaid always looking out the window wishing what she could have been or done with her life, Esperanza was a 12 year old chicana, Latin-American girl who just moved to the middle of Chicago in a tiny red crumbled down house in a poor neighborhood where there made up almost entirely of immigrants of Mexico, but also includes African american people. Esperanza was embarrassed of her family's poverty several times she hinds the fact that she's poor or lives in a tiny crumbled down house by saying she lives in different houses every time she is asked and with her family that is always moving from place to place, that makes it harder

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. Throughout Esperanzas childhood, many terrible experiences have shaped her identity into a determined and independent woman, but the single most dominant influence is poverty.

The House on Mango Street, written by author Sandra Cisneros, displays multiple emotional vignettes throughout the entire book, all detailing the life a young of a twelve-year-old Mexican girl named Esperanza. Esperanza is the main character and narrator of this book, who lives in very poor living conditions in which she is ashamed of. Esperanza is very different from other kids. She is not as social, and has gloom look upon life. In English Esperanza means hope, however, she just feels as her name means sadness, waiting, and is too many letters.

The novel “The House on Mango Street” is written by Sandra Cineros. It deals with family, neighbourhood and dreams of a young Mexican girl, Esperanza Cordero growing up in Chicago. The novel begins when the Corderos move into a new house on Mango Street in the Latino section of Chicago. The fact that it is the first house they have ever owned, make them proud. But when Esperanza sees it, she is disappointed by the red, dilapidated house. It is not the one their

and I haven’t always been proud of where we lived. In the first vignette, The House on Mango Street, Esperanza talks about the things her parents tell her about getting a house, “They always told us that one day we would move into a house, a real house that would be ours for always so we wouldn’t have to move each year.” (pg. 4) and then she talks about the things her parents fantasize their “real house” having. I can relate to this a lot because my parents

Cisneros' The House on Mango Street is a novel about the importance of not forgetting where you come from. Esperanza, a young Latino girl and the story's main character, wants to

Esperanza's overall opinion on sex and romance are like a storybook. Or at least that's what she has been told. She thinks that romance is a fairytale and prince charming is supposed to sweep her off her feet and fall in love with her. One of Esperanza's friends tells her everything. she talks about love with her friend sally, sally told her everything there is to know about love. She told her everything about Sally told her that falling in love is amazing and all she wanted to do was fall in love with someone who felt the same way. Everyone thinks that sally is crazy for thinking all of that but esperanza does not. She thinks that it's really sweet and she believes that sally will find someone.

The house was a huge improvement compared to the apartment they had previously, where the landlord refused to fix the pipes. Even, so the house was not what Esperanza has in mind or dream of, because it was old rundown. Because Esperanza dream house was a charming home, flowers in front of the house with a porch, and her own room where she can put her shoes under the bed. The family had always had in mind to own a house in white color with a lot of rooms and trees in the yard, but nothing like the house on Mango Street. However, the family owns this house. Before the house on Mango Street, the family had moved a lot. She did not have any privacy in the new place because the house only had one bedroom and one bathroom, which they needed to share among her parents and three

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 to grow up frighteningly quick. The main protagonist, a young Chicano girl, shows the audience of the importance of learning from past experience in order to form an identity entirely based on the individuals own volition. Sandra Cisneros, The author of The House on Mango Street, uses Esperanza's struggles caused by her race,gender, and economic status to instill the theme of self discovery through one's identity.

Just by looking at the front cover of The House on Mango Street, one could grasp an idea of what the novel is about and how it is presented. It is a story, decorated with colorful detail and authenticity, of a girl adjusting to a new home and growing up. In the introduction to the novel, Cisneros paints a picture of who she had been at the time she had written this novel. Cisneros discusses how as a girl she always wanted to move into a standalone house as opposed to the apartments she had been living in throughout her early childhood. She also mentions her father’s role in her life and how they had not often seen eye to eye. Her father had never understood why she wanted to live in a house. He also had wanted Cisneros to marry and have babies, however, at the time she had written this novel, she had been uninterested in that. Meanwhile, she states that she has never had a father or boyfriend beat her when she writes about how privileged her life had been up to that point. This is all reflected in The House on Mango Street. Sandra Cisneros writes in her own unique voice in The House on Mango Street by using unconventional short anecdotes that feature a cast of distinct characters to include aspects of her own life.