House On Mango Street Identity

In the book The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, Magdalena’s identity is shaped throughout her childhood by poverty, her hopes/desires, and disappointment.

Forcibly introduced into the adult world, Esperanza learn that fantasies are not always what they are said to be. Esperanza states, “They all lied. All the books and magazine, everything it wrong” (pg. 123). She realizes, bitterly, that sex and love do not always mix, and that boys are not always

Sally is gorgeous, She wears lots of make-up and short skirts. Boys gossip about her. Her father won't let her out of the house because of her beauty Esperanza wants to be her best friend. She wishes she didn't have to go home after school. Esperanza is two years younger then Minerva. She has two children and is married. Her husband left her only to return later and then leave again.When the kids are asleep she writes poetry. Esperanza and Minerva share poems they wrote. It bothers Esperanza that after her husband comes back and beats her she still takes him back.

Mia Mineer Nancy Jack Lit Comp 10/A 2/22/24. Esperanza's Sense of Belonging The novel The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros is set in the 1960s and follows 12-year-old Esperanza Cordero throughout her time on Mango Street. The book takes us through the ups and downs of her seemingly complex childhood life. The book starts with Esperanza's stance on the house she lives in.

Kurt Wechsler Ms. Sonnenberg English 2 (H), Period 6 12 April 2024 Home The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros is a deep, wonderful, and powerful title, demonstrating the terrible truths that poverty and discrimination can hold. The book follows Esperanza, a young Chicano living in the ghettos of a city. Through Esperanza, Sandra Cisneros sheds light on the lives of those in poverty. She highlights the community formed by these experiences, the blooming and the home that it becomes.

4Cullen Wallace Ms. Long. English 9 Period 2 15 March 2024 Creative Title: Why does the phrase "window” mean anything? The House on Mango Street, written by Sandra Cisneros, is a small book that is a collection of a lot of small stories.

The short story by Sandra Cisneros revolves truly around the tittle “The House on Mango Street” and how her family moved from places to places to get there. The recollection of the street names her family lived on and how every time they moved “there’d be one more of us” added to the authors focus of emphasizing how important the word “home” meant to her throughout the story. The family of six included Mama, Papa, brothers Carlos and Kiki, and sister Nenny.

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.

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 transitioned into a life that she will never be able to escape because of male power that is put over her by her husband. Minerva fears that she is destined to follow in her mother’s footsteps. “Her mother raises her kids alone and it looks like

Esperanza Cordero is a young twelve year old girl, growing up in a place, in a house, where she feels as though she does not want to be, or even belong. She often remembered her great-grandmother, from whom she had gotten her name from, as a way of relating her hopelessness to someone. Esperanza usually felt hopeless, which she found ironic considering that the name itself means hope. She reminisces about her great-grandmother from the stories she had been told, saying that she was a “horse woman,” who was free-spirited until she had gotten married and tied down. Esperanza only had this

Coming-of-age, the transition between childhood and adulthood, is a confusing and difficult time of discovering oneself. Prejudice from others based on race, gender, or economic status only makes growing up more challenging. Scout in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird and Esperanza in Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street experience the ideological maturity toward womanhood while encountering problems most do not face until adulthood. Living in conservative Alabama where racial tension is high, Scout must learn to be compassionate when her father Atticus Finch defends African-American Tom Robinson against a white woman. Growing up on Mango Street, an impoverished neighborhood of Chicago, Esperanza faces being a poor, colored girl in a world meant for rich, white men. The girls must learn to overcome the classist, racist, and sexist societies surrounding them as they come-of-age. Scout and Esperanza learn to understand and overcome the hypocrisy in racial and gender standards; however, Scout learns to understand others’ perspectives of the world through her encounters with classism and racism whereas Esperanza learns to be autonomous despite challenges from her ethnicity and the impetus to rely on sexuality.

Self-exploration is hindered in this book and my life. I can very much identify with Esperanza perspectives on societal issues that Latin women face. A society dominated by men and women relying on them, whether it is a father, spouse or friend. Men are considered the strong reasonable as where women are weak and emotional, in turn women need men for protection. A young girl may have two story paths, one where she relies on the protection of her father while she watches her mother cater to him or two, witnesses the struggles of a single young woman and absence for a father. This book describes marriage as priority for every girl or else how could she survive; appearances and physical features are highly valued traits. This attitude is not one that Esperanza agrees with, nor do I. For example, Marin she is the girl standing on the street just “waiting for a car to stop, a star to fall, someone to change her life.” This character implies that she does not dream of actively setting life goals for herself and working to earn them, instead she will wait until a man makes it happen for her. The ideology behind this thought being that as a woman she must thrive to be as attractive as possible to heighten her chances of marriage and acquire

“In the teenage years, young people begin their quests for identity” (Bellows 2). According to Dr. Amy Bellows in her article “Your Teen’s Search for Identity”; our teenage years is the time period when we scour for an identity, although we find a struggle to find our true identity. Status symbols, forbidden behaviors, rebellion, idols, and cliquish exclusion are the most common ways in which us as teenagers struggle with our identity (Bellows 2-7). In other words, peer pressure and self-esteem are some of the factors that can mislead us from the path towards our “ideal” identity. Furthermore, searching for an identity influences one’s future.

Very early in the book, the separation between males and females in Esperanza’s society is highlighted. Esperanza herself says, “The boys and the girls live in separate worlds. The boys in their universe and we in ours” (Cisneros 8). This separation leads to many characteristic differences between the males and females of the book.

Every morning I wake up thanking God for another day of life. Thankful that I have the opportunity to open my curtain windows to view Arizona’s bright sunlight. Outside of my curtain window, something is much brighter; a fiery stunning red car Olympic lookalike four rings on the bumper, almost as if I’m heading on a roller coaster, waiting to take me on a thrill ride.