“The boys and the girls live in separate worlds. The boys in their universe and we in ours.” (8) The novel The House on Mango Street is set in a low-income latino neighborhood in Chicago. The center of the book is around Mango Street, Esperanza and her family move in the neighborhood with a promise to one day have a “real home one you can point to.” (5) The narrator is soon to learn the true of society and her role as a women. The author, Sandra Cisneros in The House on Mango Street depicts the idea that women need to stand together and ultimately help each other in a male dominated world. The male gender is on top in society and ultimately that will lead women to be on the bottom, expressing the idea that women have a responsibility towards
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The other option is to not marry and be more miserable living by yourself, then you'll ever be if married. Making them trapped in situations they can’t get out of and never having a voice in the process. The first clear depiction of this is when you hear about the Vargas's, “one mother who is tired all the time from buttoning and bottling and babying, and who cries every day for the man who left without even leaving a dollar.” (29) The mother in this story was trapped and exhibits that women if they stuck together could help her pull out of this situation and help her raise her family. The author supports this representation for women when Mamacita arises, she is caught in a strange situation. She’s living in america and has trouble adapting to the country, she refuses to learn english and wants to move back to Mexico. “Every once in awhile lets out a cry, hysterical, high, as if he had torn the only skinny thread that kept her alive.” (78) this illustrates, how all the women who are caught in a situation never are able to escape Mango Street. Esperanza sees this and it's partially why she wants to leave so badly.
In the novel, The House on Mango Street author Sandra Cisneros, expresses the idea that women are in a male dominated society and they eventually get trapped having no one to rely on. The importance of this aforementioned theme is that women need each other to survive and grow in this society of men against women. The author shows this through the analyze of Esperanza and how she depicts the world around
The other option is to not marry and be more miserable living by yourself, then you'll ever be if married. Making them trapped in situations they can’t get out of and never having a voice in the process. The first clear depiction of this is when you hear about the Vargas's, “one mother who is tired all the time from buttoning and bottling and babying, and who cries every day for the man who left without even leaving a dollar.” (29) The mother in this story was trapped and exhibits that women if they stuck together could help her pull out of this situation and help her raise her family. The author supports this representation for women when Mamacita arises, she is caught in a strange situation. She’s living in america and has trouble adapting to the country, she refuses to learn english and wants to move back to Mexico. “Every once in awhile lets out a cry, hysterical, high, as if he had torn the only skinny thread that kept her alive.” (78) this illustrates, how all the women who are caught in a situation never are able to escape Mango Street. Esperanza sees this and it's partially why she wants to leave so badly.
In the novel, The House on Mango Street author Sandra Cisneros, expresses the idea that women are in a male dominated society and they eventually get trapped having no one to rely on. The importance of this aforementioned theme is that women need each other to survive and grow in this society of men against women. The author shows this through the analyze of Esperanza and how she depicts the world around