What Is The Salt To The House On Mango Street

Salt to the earth is a motivating movie that shows the early women's struggles against the government, and their opposite sex. This story is a perfect demonstration of what women had to face during the early nineteen hundred's. During this time women were not able to vote, nor to persevere in society. Many patriotically lenses remain like this to this day. Although women's rights have been changed to be parallel with men's, women have never accomplished to have the same freedom from men as men do from women. This movie shows what Esperanza had to go through living in poor unsanitary conditions in a Chicana world against Anglo superiority. Esperanza was the protagonist of the story because her struggle was explained by her, and she showed how …show more content…
Esperanza is a good role model and shows how difficult it is for a minority, Chicana women to find her value in a patriotically racist world. Salt to the earth is a movie that enlightens, empowers, and credits the feminist ongoing struggle, and shows a Chicanas fight not only to the opposite gender, but to her own culture.

In the beginning of The Salt to The Earth, Esperanza is Chicana women married to a mineworker, and was expecting a child at that moment. Esperanza's life was just like any other life for Chicanas during the civil rights movement era. Esperanza speaks bitterly, and wishes her child not to be born because of the world she lives in. Again, this is a good demonstration of what Chicana women had to go through during what seemed to be a man's fight. During this era women were legally allowed to vote but were not even close to accomplishing an image that can be as respected as a man's. Esperanza explained it as the …show more content…
I think the creator of this story did this because society still does not see what Chicana women had to go through to maintain their spot in society today, although it may not be what women desire. When the civil rights movement are mentioned one may think of MLK or Cesar Chavez, but people don’t know who Dolores Huerta or Cherrie Moraga is. This movie is inspirational not only to women but to feminist men who realize women's struggle. Being a mother is one of the hardest jobs for women because they need to protect their children, but also because they oversee educating the next generations to be better. Men who watch this movie may be enlightened of women's struggles. Men might begin to understand how hard it is for women to fight against their own loved ones wishes and may begin to realize that women can do much more than just be mothers. Women need to overcome, because equality is what we all speak of as a society, so why should we have something other than