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Research Paper On The House On Mango Street

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Most people let society shape who they are and stick with the standards they are given. The stronger individuals don't let society rule them. Society shapes us by influencing the expectations of women and showing us false and true perceptions in one's identity. When Esperanza was growing up women were expected to do three things. Get married, have children, and take care of the house. Some women were fine with that like Sally, who got married to a man a lot older than herself and she was not even in 8th grade yet. Esperanza wants something different with her life. She wants to go to college, to own a house of her home, “not a man's home”. Women were not given as much opportunities as men were. They had to work a hundred times harder just

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