The House On Mango Street Book Report

With all of the bad things going on around Esperanza, she was very optimistic and made the best of everything she could. For example, in chapter one, Esperanza explain how she and her family had always grown up poor and that they always had dreams of one day owning a big beautiful house like the ones that they saw on television. One with a back yard and a basement. When Esperanza's family was forced to move her parents had purchased the first house that they could afford so they wouldn't have to continue paying rent. The house was nothing like what they had spoke of or dreamt about. But Esperanza states, "I then knew I had to have a house. One I could point to. But this isn't it. The house on Mango Street isn't it. For the time being, Mama said. Temporary, says Papa. But I know how those things go.." Within this paragraph it shows that Esperanza isn't exactly happy about where she is living but she is going to make the best of it and do what she has to do to get out of there and have a house of her own. One that she can point to.

In chapter nine, we get to witness yet another of Francisco’s relocations, this time to Fresno, to a strawberry farm. We also get to see Francisco go to school again, this time in the sixth grade, and make a new friend. This new friend is none other than his teacher, Mr. Lema, and he helps him improve his English, whilst also agreeing to teach him how to play the trumpet. Francisco’s hopes to learn the trumpet are quickly shattered when he goes home to see all of his belongings packed into cardboard boxes.

At the plankton factory, Matt was an outcast but later became a hero after he defies the corrupted keepers and saves one of the boys from being beaten by a cane. When he was released into the boneyard, he escaped with his 3 friends, Chaco, Fidelito, and Ton Ton. Using the plankton harvestor, they were able to break down the electric fence and escape the perimeter under the scorching hot sun. At dawn Fidelito and Matt had to walk on land to San Luis where Tam Lin told Matt he was going to find Maria. During that time, there were Dia de Muertos (celebration of the dead) festivities. When they entered the room where Chacho was hospitalized, they Keepers were there as well as Ton-Ton. AS they were fighting, Esperanza luckily storms into the room along with Maria, to tell everyone to stop and accuses the Keepers of smuggling drugs into Aztlan.

Response: Esperanza and her family have been moving from place to place everytime because the apartments they lived in would either have broken pipes, be small in size or there wouldn't be enough space to play outside. "We didn't always live on Mango Street. Before that we lived on Loomis on the third floor, and before that we lived on Keeler. Before Keeler it was Paulina, and before that I can't remember." Esperanza never always lived on Mango Street. Before Mango street Esperanza and her family lived in various places. The house on Mango Street is their own house and don't have to pay rent to anybody, share the yard with other people, be careful not to make too noise and there isn't a landlord banging on the ceiling with a broom. Even though this house is a major improvement from the previous places, it isn't the house they thought they'd get. The house on Mango Street is a small red house with tight steps in front and small windows. It also has crumbling bricks and a swollen door that you had to push hard to get inside. There is no front yard, but only four little elms that the city planted by the curb and ordinary hallway stairs and

1. Identify an instance where Cisneros uses powerful imagery. Explain the effect of that imagery upon the reader. Remember that imagery can appeal to any of the senses, including sight, sound, taste, smell, or touch.

The stories in the book on House on Mango street is different from the stories on the school of anderson road. The purpose in writing this is to show the differences between both books. The names of the stories I chose were Minerva writes poems from the house on Mango Street and it was Christmas one day from the school on anderson road. In this essay I will only be talking about the differences because they really did not have no similarities.

The parallel in the fist and fourteenth chapter is that they both are listening to the heartbeat of the earth. In chapter one Papa explains to Esperanza that the land is alive and if you lie down on the ground, you can feel and hear its breath and heartbeat. At first Esperanza can’t hear the heartbeat to which her father tells her “Wait a a little while, and the fruit will fall into your hand,” only when she takes her fathers advice does she hear the land’s heartbeat. Esperanza, Papa, and the land are all connected and there hearts beat as one. In chapter 14, Las Uvas (Grapes), Abuelita is brought home by Miguel who had taken Esperanza’s money to do so.

In the novel 5 examples of how boys and girls live in separate universes and their impact on girls’ lives are as follows:

In life, we are often deeply influenced by the people who surround us. Consider the age-old adage “Birds of a Feather Flock Together”; this familiar saying reminds us that, in life, we gravitate toward people who appeal to us, and those people can have a great impact on who we are and the choices we make. In Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street, Esperanza meets many women who play a role in her life. Some of the women impact her in negative ways, but others help her to see that she can make more of her life than what her Chicago neighborhood offers. Of all the women in Esperanza’s life, Esperanza is most influenced by her mother and Alicia because they teach her to rely on herself in order to escape Mango Street.

In the first chapter, “The House on Mango Street,” Esperanza begins to describe all of the houses she has lived in before. Then she starts to say how

After papa died, Mama, Esperanza, Abuelita were in shock. They lived without saying any word or talking until they ran out of money for livestock.Then soon, Hortensia, Miguel, and Alfonso decided to move to urban areas to get a job to live. Since Esperanza and Mama´s bank money was empty, they couldn't pay them for servants. They greeted them goodbye, hugged and told them that they would be back in couple of years. Then the next day, Mama thought we wouldn't obviously survive without money. So on Saturday, she went out with Abuelita to look out for a job near Él Rancho, in the late night when Esperanza was sleeping.When the sun was shining in Esperanza's eyes, she woke up with the birds chirping, chickens crying, but especially Mama

house that is unlike the others. Esperanza knows she is stuck on Mango Street, and that

In the beginning, Esperanza is immature and always wants her dream house that she can call her home. She was always embarrassed of the houses that she lived in, especially the house on Mango Street. In the vignette, “Alicia and I Talking on Edna’s Steps”, Esperanza and Alicia talk about how Alicia has a home, but Esperanza does not feel like she has one. She is a little bit jealous of Alicia because she

Women’s Escape into Misery Women’s need for male support and their husband’s constant degradation of them was a recurring theme in the book House on Mango Street. Many of Esperanza’s stories were about women’s dreams of marrying, the perfect husband and having the perfect family and home. Sally, Rafaela, and Minerva are women who gave me the impression of [damsel’s in distress].CLICHÉ, it’s ok though. It’s relevant They wished for a man to sweep them of their feet and rescue them from their present misery. These characters are inspiring and strong but they are unable to escape the repression of the surrounding environment. *Cisneros presents a rigid world in which they lived in, and left them no other hope but to get married.

As a young girl, Esperanza is a young girl who looks at life from experience of living in poverty, where many do not question their experience. She is a shy, but very bright girl. She dreams of the perfect home, with beautiful flowers and a room for everyone. When she moves to the house of Mango Street, reality is so different than the dream. In this story, hope (Esperanza) sustains tragedy. The house she dreamed of was another on. It was one of her own. One where she did not have to share a bedroom with everyone. That included her mother, father and two siblings. The run down tiny house has "bricks crumbling in places". The one she dreamed of had a great big yard, trees and 'grass growing without a fence'. She did not want to abandon