American Dream The American Dream is what all people want to pursue, its starting off with nothing and becoming something. But what happens when one small hurdle gets in the way? In Chicago, Illinois Sandra Cisneros wrote this story because she wanted to show us about her lifestyle and how she was not able to live her American Dream. She explains that this book is like a necklace. All these stories are connected by a thread. The House on Mango Street is a novel about a girl who had moved repeatedly and eventually she was able to stick to one house, “The House on Mango Street”. Sandra Cisneros shares her story through esperanza and she is able to share the message that she was not able to live the American dream because of the obstacles she
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Document A stated, “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. But what I remember most is moving a lot.” This proves that every place they have been to, gets old and they move as they stated.“We had to leave the house on Loomis quick. The water pipes broke and the landlord wouldn’t fix them because the house was too old. We had to leave fast. We were using the washroom next door and carrying the water over in empty milk gallons.” Every place they went to had something wrong with it. Another example of poverty is, “Our house would have running water and pipes that worked. And inside it would have real stairs, not hallway stairs, but stairs inside like the houses on T.V. And we’d have a basement and at least three washrooms so when we took a bath we wouldn’t have to tell everybody. Our house would be white with trees around it, a great big yard and grass growing without a fence. This was the house Papa talked about when he held a lottery ticket and this was the house Mama dreamed up in the stories she told us before we went to bed.” This the house they imagined they would get, and the father was holding a lottery ticket, because he would get the house with the prize, if he won the lottery. “But the house on Mango Street is not the way they told it at
Document A stated, “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. But what I remember most is moving a lot.” This proves that every place they have been to, gets old and they move as they stated.“We had to leave the house on Loomis quick. The water pipes broke and the landlord wouldn’t fix them because the house was too old. We had to leave fast. We were using the washroom next door and carrying the water over in empty milk gallons.” Every place they went to had something wrong with it. Another example of poverty is, “Our house would have running water and pipes that worked. And inside it would have real stairs, not hallway stairs, but stairs inside like the houses on T.V. And we’d have a basement and at least three washrooms so when we took a bath we wouldn’t have to tell everybody. Our house would be white with trees around it, a great big yard and grass growing without a fence. This was the house Papa talked about when he held a lottery ticket and this was the house Mama dreamed up in the stories she told us before we went to bed.” This the house they imagined they would get, and the father was holding a lottery ticket, because he would get the house with the prize, if he won the lottery. “But the house on Mango Street is not the way they told it at