House On Mango Street Essay

As a Mexican-American reading the novel The House on Mango Street brought interest, along with some traits one can relate to. Readers can see how a young Mexican-American girl name Esperanza, who isn't pleased with the name she has been given, wants to leave from mango street to have her own house, only because Esperanza is not pleased with the home her parents have recently moved into. Esperanza states how it is not the house, she has dreamed of, because it is run-down and small. Sandra Cisneros author of The House on Mango Street, writes this novel as a poetry with a sense of a hood-like matter. Readers may may argue this novel as Sandra compelling readers to leave your town if one isn’t please with it, as for others, some may say where you come from may not be the most safest neighborhood, or the most well living environment, but to never discriminate where one is from. In the novel the house is located in Chicago, on a crowded Latino neighborhood, a city where many poor areas are racially segregated. This novel is a poetry worth reading.
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In the novel Esperanza mentions several times how she is not pleased with the name she has been given which comes from her grandma. She wants to change her name, “in English is meant hope. In Spanish it means too many letters” (Cisneros 10). She would like to “baptize herself under a new name, a name more like the real her” (Cisneros 11) so that she can have power over her own destiny. She struggles for self-definition of who she is and by writing, it was a treat for her to keep her free, in this sense Esperanza continues to write in hopes of power to be