HOUSE ON MANGO STREET
While reading “The house on mango street”, everything in the book seemed to get progressively became contorted for the innocent girl named Esperanza. In the beginning of the story the Family had moved a couple of times prior to the last and having to move again having more complications with broken water pipes, and the landlord refusing to fix them leaving them no other choice but to advance to the next home. Esperanza describes her name as being an awful name with too many letters to her sounding boring, yet saying that it has a beautiful meaning; “hope” a very unique way to describe a name I would say. My grandmother's name is also Esperanza, which makes me wonder if my grandma might have shunned her name at some point …show more content…
This house I mean looked really beat up, the outside looked like it was being held up by a miracle making it look like it would fall apart any second. The inside of the house was dark and creepy like one of those abandoned houses with broken floor boards which made me feel as if I was being watched in the house making it feel more creepy than it already was. In the book Esperanza mentions how this house is an upgrade compared to all the other house they had lived in before. This made me think if the way she describes the house on mango street in a such a bad way, now imagine how would of the houses prior to this one might have looked liked. Throughout the story Esperanza seemed to be the only one who didn't seem to approve of their new home for example when she first arrived at mango street she felt embarrassed throughout the book. Her parents explained to Esperanza that the house would only be temporary making it hard to believe for the protagonist, the family's dream house consists of lots of space, and a lot of room inside the house; with a staircase that leads to multiple floors with bathrooms. My dad taught me to always acknowledge what I have in life, and to always make the most of it, because somewhere in the world there's someone who
While reading “The house on mango street”, everything in the book seemed to get progressively became contorted for the innocent girl named Esperanza. In the beginning of the story the Family had moved a couple of times prior to the last and having to move again having more complications with broken water pipes, and the landlord refusing to fix them leaving them no other choice but to advance to the next home. Esperanza describes her name as being an awful name with too many letters to her sounding boring, yet saying that it has a beautiful meaning; “hope” a very unique way to describe a name I would say. My grandmother's name is also Esperanza, which makes me wonder if my grandma might have shunned her name at some point …show more content…
This house I mean looked really beat up, the outside looked like it was being held up by a miracle making it look like it would fall apart any second. The inside of the house was dark and creepy like one of those abandoned houses with broken floor boards which made me feel as if I was being watched in the house making it feel more creepy than it already was. In the book Esperanza mentions how this house is an upgrade compared to all the other house they had lived in before. This made me think if the way she describes the house on mango street in a such a bad way, now imagine how would of the houses prior to this one might have looked liked. Throughout the story Esperanza seemed to be the only one who didn't seem to approve of their new home for example when she first arrived at mango street she felt embarrassed throughout the book. Her parents explained to Esperanza that the house would only be temporary making it hard to believe for the protagonist, the family's dream house consists of lots of space, and a lot of room inside the house; with a staircase that leads to multiple floors with bathrooms. My dad taught me to always acknowledge what I have in life, and to always make the most of it, because somewhere in the world there's someone who