House On Mango Street Insecurity Quotes

This short novel is The house on Mango Street. By Sandra Cisneros.This book is about a girl named Esperanza. She’s a young girl who isn’t confident about where she lives. Later she is getting confident about where she lives and she notices changes about her body. Last of all, she starts making her own choices in her life. In the beginning of the novel, Esperanza is a young insecure child who is insecure about her new life on Mango Street. The first time we see Esperanza’s insecurity is when she talks about her new home, and when she talks about the house on Mango Street. She says “I knew I had to have a house. A real house, one that I can point to, but this isn’t it.” She wants a house to be proud of but that house isn’t it. Another quote from the book is about her insecurity. “I had to point where she pointed-the third floor. The paint peeling, wooden bars Papa had nailed on the windows so we wouldn’t fall out. You live there? The way she said it made me feel like nothing.” Esperanza is embarrassed about her new home and wishes she didn’t live there. Later on in the book Esperanza starts to notice something she never used when she was a kid. …show more content…
Esperanza’s body starts to change and starts to notice make up. And she starts hanging out with girls that wear makeup. “What matters; Marian says is for the boys to see us and for us to see them. And since Marian skirts are shorter and since her eyes are pretty.” Marian is teaching Esperanza that she needs to dress like her so the boys can notice her. She also learns from another girl named Sally. Esperanza thinks Sally is a wonderful person and would like to be her new best friend. She also wants to learn how to do her eyes like Sally. Esperanza wants to do makeup which means she’s is going into her teens. Later Esperanza starts making her own