Michael Perry, the author, once expressed, “Never mock a pain you have never endured or judge a situation you have never been in.” As illustrated, it is wrong to judge someone based on their life experiences. The theme of House on Mango Street is prejudgment, it proves the point that to prejudge someone is unfair, because contributing factors in everyday lives of many people are uncontrollable such as income class, gender, and race. Starting off, to prejudge someone based on their social class is unfair, considering it is an uncontrollable factor in their life. Throughout the vignette, “The House on Mango Street”, the author characterized Esperanza’s house by saying, “ Paint peeling, wooden bars papa had nailed on the windows so we wouldn’t
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As a matter of fact, this is expressed in many short stories, such as Eli in the story, “The Lie”. Eli was born into a rich …show more content…
This is portrayed all throughout the vignette of “Those Who Don’t”. This vignette starts out by saying, “Those who don’t know any better come into our neighborhood scared. They think we’re dangerous. They think we will attack them with shiny knives.” The author then goes on to say, “All brown all around, we are safe. But watch as we drive into a neighborhood of another color and our knees go shakity-shake and our car windows get rolled up tight and our eyes look straight.” All around the world, among all different races, people are placing prejudices against each other. Due to the fact, that Esperanza lives in a Hispanic neighborhood, other people of different races, set a prejudgment against them, that if they went into her neighborhood they would be wounded. All things considered, the race of someone cannot change no matter how hard one tries, therefore to judge someone and make assumptions based on this fact is wrong. Displaying this idea perfectly is the main character Maria from the story “Dead End”. Due to the fact, that Maria was Hispanic, all of her friends in her neighborhood assumed that she would like to participate in their acts of doing drugs. Little did they know that back at home, she no longer had a mother and had to fill that role in her household. The assumption that she would enjoy doing drugs backfired when she said no
As a matter of fact, this is expressed in many short stories, such as Eli in the story, “The Lie”. Eli was born into a rich …show more content…
This is portrayed all throughout the vignette of “Those Who Don’t”. This vignette starts out by saying, “Those who don’t know any better come into our neighborhood scared. They think we’re dangerous. They think we will attack them with shiny knives.” The author then goes on to say, “All brown all around, we are safe. But watch as we drive into a neighborhood of another color and our knees go shakity-shake and our car windows get rolled up tight and our eyes look straight.” All around the world, among all different races, people are placing prejudices against each other. Due to the fact, that Esperanza lives in a Hispanic neighborhood, other people of different races, set a prejudgment against them, that if they went into her neighborhood they would be wounded. All things considered, the race of someone cannot change no matter how hard one tries, therefore to judge someone and make assumptions based on this fact is wrong. Displaying this idea perfectly is the main character Maria from the story “Dead End”. Due to the fact, that Maria was Hispanic, all of her friends in her neighborhood assumed that she would like to participate in their acts of doing drugs. Little did they know that back at home, she no longer had a mother and had to fill that role in her household. The assumption that she would enjoy doing drugs backfired when she said no