The House of Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros is about Esperanza and her life on Mango Street. She described her life in the new house on Mango Street and the surrounding people around her. Cisneros conveys the idea that the way that a person grows up affects who they are and who they become. Kids are easily affected by their environment. An example of this is when Esperanza based herself worth on her belongings. She want to leave her surrounding and escape the house on Mango Street. She feels that she’s better than the poor urban neighborhood in Chicago. Kids are affected by the people around them. Esperanza feels ashamed about her poor background and tries to hide the fact that she’s poor. Esperanza tries to find herself by going on walk
