The House on Mango Street, a fictional novel written by Sandra Cisneros in 2009, takes place in a poor city in Mexico. Esperanza, the narrator and the main character of this novel feels insecure about herself and feels like she doesnt belong in her neighborhood. The book shows how Esperanza has grown throughout the year. […]
A female is not weak nor fragile, she is strong and all she needs is a little bit of love. In the novella The House on Mango Street Cisneros uses the motif trapped. Most of the females in The House On Mango Street feel imprisoned by the ones they love most and restricted from living […]
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Get startedWhat he did. Where he touched me. I didnt want it, Sally. The way he said it, the way itr’s supposed to be, all the storybooks and movies.. says Esperanza, the narrator in The House On Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. Esperanza and other girls on Mango Street struggle with growing up and being objectified […]
In todayr’s society there are many social problems that everyone tends to face. People are often treated as if they are inferior to others based on different things such as race, ethnicity, and even gender. In the story the House on Mango Street, the author, Sandra Cisneros addresses these issues. Throughout the story, Cisneros thoroughly […]
In Sandra Cisnerosr’s novel, The House on Mango Street, the motif of community is presented throughout the whole book. Esperanza, the main character, goes through a lot of things and is affected by the people within the community to help her mature, and grow. Esperanzar’s community help forms the way how mature she is. Esperanza […]
The House on Mango Street is a novel written by Mexican-American writer Sandra Cisneros. Cisneros depicts the life of a twelve-year-old girl, Esperanza, who within a year transforms into a woman. She outlines Esperanzar’s life as she grows hips, starts to be curious about boys, evolves emotionally, and suffers sexual assault. In The House on […]
The House on Mango Street is a piece written by Sandra Cisneros, an American of Mexican Heritage. It was published in 1984 and details a year in the life of a young girl, Esperanza Cordero, who moves to Mango Street, a Mexican enclave of Chicago, at the age of twelve. The story deals with relationships, […]
Gender roles are a significant component in The House On Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros. From the outset of the novel, Esperanza faces an identity crisis as she develops from a girl into a woman. Throughout her life, Esperanza experiences the differences between genders, specifically after moving in. She observes the girls and women living […]
The story of Esperanza is one that many minorities face, even in todayr’s society. Every day she had to deal with things from both a poverty and racist standpoint. She talks about how the poverty she faced affected the way she looked at her self. She also goes on to talk about how the racial […]
Coming of age is like a plant, starts off as nothing but a seed, small, sweet, and innocent but slowly over time begins to grow into something much bigger. Much like a plant is a person, that can grow and learn and this can be seen in the novel House On Mango Street written by […]
Always feeling accepted is a feeling that s hard to have on a regular basis. Acceptance is something we all should want to give and to receive but is also something everyone struggles with whether you’re the one accepting or the one being accepted. In the book ” The House on Mango Street”, Esperanza struggles […]
Itr’s been about five years since youve heard from me last, so I guess I should catch you up on what happened. I was eager to start high school. I had a job and friends and started to figure out who I was. A lot has changed since then. Some for better and others for […]
The two literature selections I will be comparing is: A Clean, Well-Lighted and The House on Mango Street. The theme for A Clean, Well-Lighted Place is unity. I chose unity as the theme to best describe this Hemingway piece because it has the good and the bad, but it brings the older waiter closer to […]
Coming of age is like a plant, starts off as nothing but a seed, small, sweet, and innocent but slowly over time begins to grow into something much bigger. Much like a plant is a person, that can grow and learn and this can be seen in the novel House On Mango Street written by […]
In Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street, the character of Esperanza starts as a lonely character but finally develops into a cheerful character. In the first couple chapters of the book The House on Mango Street Esperanza, the main character of the novel moves to a new house on mango street and doesn’t have any friends. Esperanza all her life has had no friends and has been not educated very well. These are some of the reasons the book The House on Mango Street is a shocking story. Here are some more examples of how Esperanza started as a lonely character but then quickly transformed into a cheerful character throughout the book.
Esperanza ended up moving to a house on mango street due to her old apartments having issues with plumbing. The family had dreamed of a white house with lots of space and bathrooms, but the house on Mango Street has only one bedroom and one bathroom and is bright pink. When she moved she barely knew anyone but her own family. The people in her family were her parents, her brothers, Carlos and Kiki, and her sister, Nenny. Esperanza absolutely hates the house but her parents tell her that this is a temporary house. When she moved she knew no one. She was very lonely and didn’t know what to do with her life. She has even said in the book “We’ve all felt lonely and ashamed, awkward and ugly, and we all have hopes and dreams.” As the book progresses through she meets new people and eventually turns out to be a very cheerful girl.
Towards the end of the book, Esperanza starts to become a very cheerful character. During this time she has made a lot of friends and isn’t so lonely as before. But, because of the people, she has met she has transformed into a cheerful character. Due to the new people, she has met she has forgotten about how lonely she was and has basically started a new life. An example of her being cheerful in the novel is when she gets to the new house she says “the colors make me happy” which tells the reader that she has forgotten about her loneliness and has started to become more intelligent and cheerful. One more reason there is proof she has transformed into a cheerful or happy character is that the people she hangs around are always having a good time and are cheerful which made her start to forget about her loneliness and made her remodel how she saw herself. Even Though Esperanza is not happy with her surrounding she says she will always be on Mango Street no matter what happens at the end of the book.
The House on Mango Street was a decent book but all in all, Esperanza revealed her full potential when she stepped out of her comfort zone and revealed who she really is. If she had never moved to Mango Street she would have never experienced what she did in this novel. She would have always been the same no room for change. But the fact that she moved to a new house, she became a new Esperanza which made her start as a new person and create new friends and be able to not only be cheerful but intelligent as well. When Esperanza moved she just realized how much potential she had to be a good person. Her friends and parents, though they weren’t the friendliest people still cared about her. This is the reason the House on Mango Street shows how life can change no matter where you are.
