Esperanza moved into a neighborhood that she believed she didn’t fit in. She decided to build relationships with different people during her time living on Mango Street. By building them, she learned some relationships are not alway the best and hurt both individuals for example friends can hold people back or peer pressure them into things and parents can sometimes not be the perfect hero and put their kids into situations where it hurts them.
A big portion of relationships are friendships. They are very beneficial at some points but can sometimes hurt the people in it by peer pressure, disrespect, lack of trust, or other reasons. House on Mango Street gives lots of examples about how friendships can hurt people. During the vignette Red Clowns, Esperanza cries about how “she [Sally] lied” (Cisneros 99). Sally …show more content…
On House on Mango street, parents are not always the best role models for their kids and sometimes end up hurting their children. Sally’s father was not portrayed as much as a strict dad until the vignette of What Sally Said. Esperanza describes Sally with a “pretty face all beaten and black” (Cisneros 92). No matter how much disrespect Sally brought to her family, her father doesn’t have the right to beat her so much that her face turned black. A big mistake a lot of parents make is lie to their kids to let them think they have what they want. In the eyes of the kid, it’s a betrayal. Cathy being the overly confident child that she is, bragged to a poor girl with the hope of getting out of the neighborhood. Cathy’s father telling Cathy about how they have a “distant grand cousin on her father’s side and inherit the family house” not only broke Cathy’s dreams but also made Esperanza lose her hope of having a best friend(Cisneros 13). Even though every kid needs a parent while growing up, sometimes having one isn’t the best
A big portion of relationships are friendships. They are very beneficial at some points but can sometimes hurt the people in it by peer pressure, disrespect, lack of trust, or other reasons. House on Mango Street gives lots of examples about how friendships can hurt people. During the vignette Red Clowns, Esperanza cries about how “she [Sally] lied” (Cisneros 99). Sally …show more content…
On House on Mango street, parents are not always the best role models for their kids and sometimes end up hurting their children. Sally’s father was not portrayed as much as a strict dad until the vignette of What Sally Said. Esperanza describes Sally with a “pretty face all beaten and black” (Cisneros 92). No matter how much disrespect Sally brought to her family, her father doesn’t have the right to beat her so much that her face turned black. A big mistake a lot of parents make is lie to their kids to let them think they have what they want. In the eyes of the kid, it’s a betrayal. Cathy being the overly confident child that she is, bragged to a poor girl with the hope of getting out of the neighborhood. Cathy’s father telling Cathy about how they have a “distant grand cousin on her father’s side and inherit the family house” not only broke Cathy’s dreams but also made Esperanza lose her hope of having a best friend(Cisneros 13). Even though every kid needs a parent while growing up, sometimes having one isn’t the best