Social Injustice In The House On Mango Street

There is reasons why there is issues regarding social injustice in “The House on Mango Street.” One reason is that the way the women are treated in “The House on Mango Street” by the men. Another reason is that people in “The House on Mango Street” get judged because they are poor. One last reason is that the people in “The House on Mango Street”get judged because of their race. Sandra Cisneros deals with issues regarding social injustice in “The House on Mango Street.”

The way that the women are treated in “The House on Mango Street” by the men. In the vignette “ My Name” Esperanza’s great-grandmother is known to be a wild horse of a woman. She wouldn’t even get married. Until Esperanza’s great-grandfather kidnapped her and carried her off as if she was nothing at all. Her great-grandmother never forgave him for what he did and for the rest of her life she looked out the window her whole life and did nothing. One example of the way women are treated in “The House on Mango Street” is …show more content…
One example of people being judged because they are poor is in the vignette “The House on Mango Street.” In this vignette a nun comes up to Esperanza and asks her where does she live, then Esperanza points to the house and the nun says you live there. When the nun said this it made Esperanza feel bad about how she was poor and that her family could not afford really a better house. One last example that people get judged for being poor is in the vignette “Geraldo No Last Name.” Esperanza talks about a young man that Marin met at the dance named Geraldo. Geraldo ended up in a hit and run accident. Geraldo died because he lost a lot of blood, but Esperanza said that if the surgeon had come then Geraldo would be alive. For example, when people who not familiar with the neighborhood Esperanza lives in they get scared. Esperanza said that they also think that they will get attacked with shiny