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    Cisneros, titled The House on Mango Street in its unassuming and sincere writing style, shines a beacon of truth on the socioeconomic condition of its time, by scrupulously describing the living situations of the protagonist and her immediate family. The narrator of the story Esperanza, paints an accurate picture of her family’s inability to remain anchored at any residence up to the point when we catch up with her in the story, where she reveals that “We didn’t always live on Mango Street. Before that we

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    Throughout her life on Mango Street, Esperanza meets many different people, makes new friends, experiences both good and bad situations and gets emotionally mature. Throughout the paper, the reader will see how psychoanalytic theory applies to Esperanza’s character that makes her

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    everyone else expects you to be someone else? In The House on Mango Street Esperanza’s Doesn't want her social status, heritage or her name to hold her back. This expresses the theme of identity through the characterization and imagery. Esperanza’s social class is not something she is very proud of. This is expressed through the Imagery in “The house on Mango Street” when the author described the house she lives in now in comparison to her dream house. This is when Esperanza to realized that her social

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    The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cineros is the best by far. The book is intriguing, funny, heart-warming and full of adventure. The book paints a vivid picture of Esperanza and her family living in their new house on Mango Street. Sadly, the house doesn’t meet up to Esperanza’s expectations, but she learns to adjust to her new home. The character of Esperanza in The House on Mango Street expresses the difficulty, adventure, friendships, and maturity in her lifestyle. While living on Mango Street

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    "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros dives into the experiences of women and the stereotypes surrounding them through the portrayal of three important female characters: Esperanza, Sally, and Marin. Each character represents different aspects of femininity and confronts societal expectations in certain ways, contributing to the overall theme of women's struggles and resilience in times of hardship. Esperanza, the protagonist, allows readers to explore the complexities of womanhood. Despite

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    The House on Mango Street is an interesting novel by Sandra Cisneros, and it was published in 1984. This novel is about a young Mexican-American girl named Esperanza who tells her story through vignettes, revealing the difficulties she experienced growing up with her Family in a low-income neighborhood in chicago. I chose The House on Mango Street because it is an interesting novel that explores race, gender, identity, culture, and socioeconomic status. In this novel, Cisneros incorporates her personal

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    Have you ever wondered what it would be like to grow up in a different culture? Or face discrimination because of your gender? These are just some of the challenges the character Esperanza encounters in the coming of age novel The House on Mango Street. Written by Sandra Cisneros, this book depicts the life of an adolescent girl named Esperanza. The novel covers her time spent in a racially separated neighborhood where she experiences the hardships that come with being a girl in her time and culture

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    Throughout the novel, The House on Mango Street Esperanza's negative outlook on herself and her life slowly improves as she realizes she has a bigger place outside of Mango Street and that her lasting impact can help influence the lives of others who cannot as easily escape as she. In the chapter, The House on Mango Street, Esperanza has a very negative and unsatisfied outlook on her life, mainly centered around her house. She wishes and dreams for a life in which she can live without feeling ashamed

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    didn’t belong to you? In The House on Mango Street, this is how the main character, Esperanza, felt. The author, Sandra Cisneros, did a good job in portraying a girl who couldn’t find her place. She had a problem accepting where she was from, The House on Mango Street is heartfelt novel and is great to pass the time. In this story, you will be shown the lives of Esperanza, her sister Nenny, their two best friends Rachel and Lucy, and the many people who lived on Mango Street. This book is about a girl

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    In the book The House on Mango Street the vignettes are written in an impressionistic style. A characteristic of impressionism that is very prevalent in this book is that if the reader was to look at each vignette in a lot of detail, and very separately, the whole book would not make sense, however if they were to take a step back and think of the book as a whole, the bigger picture is more clear. In the impressionistic art, the painters would paint in such a way that looking closely was very confusing

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