House On Mango Street Discrimination

The House On Mango Street is a novel in which various stories are told about the inhabitants of Mango Street by a girl named Esperanza. She tells how they all got to Mango Street and what they had to overcome, like Marin, and the hit-and-run, or Mamacita and her baby boy, or Esperanza herself and the struggle to thrive. These link to the several preventions of meeting the American Dream, as explained by The House on Mango Street, are discrimination, language, and poverty. One of the most described obstacles to the American Dream is Discrimination. Document D, “Geraldo No Last Name”, shows this after Geraldo was the victim of a hit-and-run. He was sent to the hospital where he was dying quickly, and without a qualified surgeon, he died. When Esperanza says this, “If the surgeon would’ve come… if the surgeon had only come.” This line of text shows that maybe the surgeon didn’t come because he was a not an American. Esperanza also states that “they never saw the kitchenettes.” I believe Geraldo had bought some things with the little money he had and expected himself to live happily ever after. …show more content…
Esperanza describes a large lady coming from “that country” with a man and a baby boy. Esperanza says the lady doesn’t come out much. Most people think it is because she is fat or because of the three flights of stairs, but Esperanza believes it is because the lady is afraid to speak English. She only knows how to say a few words. “She knows to say: He not here for when the landlord comes, No speak English, if anybody else comes, and Holy smokes. Then the baby boy broke her heart when he starts singing the Pepsi commercial he heard on TV. She tells him “No speak English!” but he keeps on singing. She starts crying as when she can’t believe what she is