Poverty is not a shame, but being ashamed of it is.
Growing up Mango Street wasn’t easy for Esperanza it wasn’t really easy for any one especially Esperanza. It wasn’t what she imaged in her mind or what she had been dreaming about but it was all her family could afford. She wanted something better which she could be proud about some place she could call home. When people asked her where she lived she was so resentful to say she lived on Mango Street. She was so resentful because it had the reputation for not being a nice part of town and you were of lower class if you lived there. But she found a way to get out of think about Mango Street putting that behind her and that was writing. Writing made her forget about all the bad stuff that was going on around her and all the …show more content…
She couldn’t wait she always dreamed of a better house and a better life. But when she arrived to the house on Mango Street it wasn’t what she had imaged or what her parents had promised her. She was not imaging the house to be a small one bedroom rundown raggedy house she always dreamed of a beautiful white house. “ The house on Mango Street is ours, and we don’t have to pay rent to anybody, or share the yard with the people downstairs, or be careful not to make too much noise, and there isn’t a landlord banding on the ceiling with a broom. But even so, it’s not the house we’d thought we’d get.” Page 3 She expressed her feeling to her parents about it and they told her this was only a temporary house but she didn’t believe them. They had to move here cause that all her family could afford. Her family wasn’t rich but they were one big happy family for the most part and all they need were each other. But Esperanza wasn’t always happy she was sad and embarrassed about how poor her family was and all they could afford was the dumpy old house they had just moved into on Mango
Growing up Mango Street wasn’t easy for Esperanza it wasn’t really easy for any one especially Esperanza. It wasn’t what she imaged in her mind or what she had been dreaming about but it was all her family could afford. She wanted something better which she could be proud about some place she could call home. When people asked her where she lived she was so resentful to say she lived on Mango Street. She was so resentful because it had the reputation for not being a nice part of town and you were of lower class if you lived there. But she found a way to get out of think about Mango Street putting that behind her and that was writing. Writing made her forget about all the bad stuff that was going on around her and all the …show more content…
She couldn’t wait she always dreamed of a better house and a better life. But when she arrived to the house on Mango Street it wasn’t what she had imaged or what her parents had promised her. She was not imaging the house to be a small one bedroom rundown raggedy house she always dreamed of a beautiful white house. “ The house on Mango Street is ours, and we don’t have to pay rent to anybody, or share the yard with the people downstairs, or be careful not to make too much noise, and there isn’t a landlord banding on the ceiling with a broom. But even so, it’s not the house we’d thought we’d get.” Page 3 She expressed her feeling to her parents about it and they told her this was only a temporary house but she didn’t believe them. They had to move here cause that all her family could afford. Her family wasn’t rich but they were one big happy family for the most part and all they need were each other. But Esperanza wasn’t always happy she was sad and embarrassed about how poor her family was and all they could afford was the dumpy old house they had just moved into on Mango