House On Mango Street Culture Analysis

The House Street on Mango Street displays Mexican style heritage and culture. This is a different culture that has similarities and differences between my culture, Indian culture, and the culture in the book. Family roles are something that is striking in both of these cultures. In the House on Mango Street, family roles are unchanged and are one of the more prominent parts of the culture that show up in the book. Indian culture is a culture that has stayed similar throughout the years, but in the present days’ western culture has influenced this culture and some of the ways of the culture have been changed, but the basic structure still stands today in more traditional Indian families. A similarity of both the is that both cultures partake …show more content…
In Indian culture family live in one house. This includes all generations. For example, grandparents, parents, and kids would live all in one house. If the parents have a son, then he stays in the house with his wife and they all live together. If the parents have a daughter, then after her marriage she will leave this house and live with her husband’s family. In rare cases does the family live in separate houses. Before the boy gets married the father and mother take care of the kids, and when the kids are older, they come and take care of the parents when they are older. So at times for some families, there are 10+ people living in the same house, and all of them are interdependent and care about each other. The families are close knit in these houses. In the book, this family left the grandparents’ house and move continuously looking for their dream …show more content…
Nonetheless my dad still is important in our family. He gives money to my grandparents when they need it and still supports them even though we are so far away from them. I did not really know that it is a tradition to stay in the grandparents’ house, till I did some research and learned about my own culture. I also learned a lot about the culture in The House on Mango Street. I learned a lot after I went back into to the book and delved more deeply in the book about the meaning and what Sandra Cisneros meant about the culture and what she showed the reader. I did not realize Indian culture is that similar to other culture, after growing up more of a western style of culture. I learned about the difference that are also in that culture to mine. This assignment was good, because I learned about a more different aspect about my culture than the aspects I