THOMS Growing Up by, Juliana Vandermark
Growing up means learning about the world and understanding what's out there and how people act in the world. It is like discovering what you need to know to succeed and setting you up for your future. Based on The House on Mango Street, growing up is learning and experiencing the real world. When Esperanza was younger she dreamed and wished to be older. But as she grew up she began to understand what being grown up means and decides she could stay young a little longer. One example of this can be found in the vignette Family Of Little Feet. On page 40, when Esperanza is parading around in her new heels with her friends Rachel and Lucy, she starts out exuberant and proud of what is symbolizes. But, once Rachel gets into a tricky …show more content…
Because she was scared, she ate her lunch in the coat room. While Esperanza was in there an older asian man noticed her and was (what seemed to Esperanza) kind and friendly however he took advantage of her innocence and gave very unwanted attention. Here Esperanza learned that growing up can be a struggle especially when you don’t know what kind of attention is wanted or unwanted. It shows that growing up, people must understand and realize there are people (like the bum man in Family Of Little Feet) who are not always going to be fair and /or on your side. Near the end of the book, in the vignette The Monkey Garden, Esperanza choses to and longs to be less grown up she wants to be able to act more childish. At the beginning of the vignette, Esperanza plays with the younger children doing what she loves, but as she says, “I wanted to go back with the other kids who were still jumping on cars, still chasing each other through the garden, but Sally had her own game.” Later on in the same vignette, as she’s scolding them all she says, “I don't know why, but something inside me wanted to throw a stick. Something wanted to say no when I watched Sally going into
Growing up means learning about the world and understanding what's out there and how people act in the world. It is like discovering what you need to know to succeed and setting you up for your future. Based on The House on Mango Street, growing up is learning and experiencing the real world. When Esperanza was younger she dreamed and wished to be older. But as she grew up she began to understand what being grown up means and decides she could stay young a little longer. One example of this can be found in the vignette Family Of Little Feet. On page 40, when Esperanza is parading around in her new heels with her friends Rachel and Lucy, she starts out exuberant and proud of what is symbolizes. But, once Rachel gets into a tricky …show more content…
Because she was scared, she ate her lunch in the coat room. While Esperanza was in there an older asian man noticed her and was (what seemed to Esperanza) kind and friendly however he took advantage of her innocence and gave very unwanted attention. Here Esperanza learned that growing up can be a struggle especially when you don’t know what kind of attention is wanted or unwanted. It shows that growing up, people must understand and realize there are people (like the bum man in Family Of Little Feet) who are not always going to be fair and /or on your side. Near the end of the book, in the vignette The Monkey Garden, Esperanza choses to and longs to be less grown up she wants to be able to act more childish. At the beginning of the vignette, Esperanza plays with the younger children doing what she loves, but as she says, “I wanted to go back with the other kids who were still jumping on cars, still chasing each other through the garden, but Sally had her own game.” Later on in the same vignette, as she’s scolding them all she says, “I don't know why, but something inside me wanted to throw a stick. Something wanted to say no when I watched Sally going into