Summary Of The House On Mango Street

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros was about the dream house of a young girl of Spanish descent, and the several times her family moved to a place which didn’t suit their needs. The Lawsuit by Naguib Mahfouz was about the troubles faced by a boy and his family when his fifty five year old dad decided to marry a pretty, young girl and brought her along to live in the same house. The House on Mango Street dealt with small house problems of a big family that moved often due to less space and poverty, whereas, The Lawsuit involved family issues when a fifty five year old father decided to torn his family apart when he married a young girl and brought her home to a family of children and his first wife. Cisneros portrayed the girl, in The House on Mango Street, as a confused and hopeful person who was aware of the financial conditions of her family yet she believed that one day she would move to a “real house” with her family where they would have “real” stairs, basement and washrooms, and a big yard. On the contrary, Mahfouz …show more content…
The narrator summed up the idea of security and happiness in the image of a house, big enough for their whole family. The social and class distinctions were discussed in an unspecified way, like many of the issues that came up in The House on Mango Street. Instead of having the narrator actually say that her family 's poor, the author chose to put clues in the text, to help the reader figure out the poverty issues. The Lawsuit was based on "inner peace" of the narrator that appeared at the end of the story. The narrator 's anger melted and he wanted vengeance that had begun from his father 's second marriage, but when he had the chance to gain it, he realized that was never what he really wanted. Instead he told the woman not to worry and that the lord will better her condition.As a result, he reacquired wisdom that he seemed to have lost for