Only Daughter by Sandra Cisneros Essay

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will”-Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre. In The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros, women are portrayed in instances where they gave up on their potential, married instead, and became caged and unhappy. “Rafaela Who Drinks Coconut & Papaya Juice on Tuesdays” shows a woman whose husband won't let her leave the house because she is too beautiful. “Minerva Writes Poems” is about a very young woman who writes poems…

she has been given, wants to leave from mango street to have her own house, only because Esperanza is not pleased with the home her parents have recently moved into. Esperanza states how it is not the house, she has dreamed of, because it is run-down and small. Sandra Cisneros author of The House on Mango Street, writes this novel as a poetry with a sense of a hood-like matter. Readers may may argue this novel as Sandra compelling readers to leave your town if one isn’t please with it, as for…

The House on Mango Street. By. Sandra Cisneros. New York: A Division of Random House, Inc., 1984. 110 pages. Paperback. $5.00. In her book, “The House on Mango Street”, author Sandra Cisneros documents through a series of vignettes the life experiences of a young girl, Esperanza, whose living situation is not one that she prefers, she describes the struggles, dilemmas and embarrassments that this young girl has to endure throughout her life in a place that is difficult for her to call home. The…

Perhaps the most unique novel in the realm of storytelling is The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, which tells the coming of age story of Esperanza, a young Latina girl in Chicago, through the use of vignettes and indirect storytelling. Throughout the novel, Cisneros utilizes vignettes almost as if they were diary entries, showing abbreviated clips from Esperanza’s life, and telling her story and the stories of other characters though specific detailed and emotional moments. This method…

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, is about the journey through young Esperanza’s life. With her poor Latino family, and the struggles they all face. She remembers as a kid how they would have to move from apartment to apartment. But the one thing she could always rely on was her writing. Even if things are not going as planned, she could escape in her writing. Through living on Mango Street, Esperanza has created hr identity as a strong independent girl. Living in a…

The house on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros is really a coming of age novel of a Mexican American female developing in a working class Chicago neighborhood. The writer is similar to the main character Esperanza in a number of ways. One being that Cisneros was also a Mexican American female growing up in a Chicago working class community. While Esperanza is ashamed of becoming a Mexican American around white Americans, Cisneros is proud to be considered a Mexican American female. But she…

are persuading someone to help buy the bike that they would eventually share. Cisnero’s use of the subjunctive mood helps reveal Esperanza’s inner wishes to have friends. Esperanza then says that the prices is cheap, since she only has one friend, Cathy, and she will only be her friend until Tuesday. Esperanza is so desperate to acquire a friend that she thinks giving money and then stealing her sister’s money, is acceptable. “if you don’t get them you may turn into a man.” This passage is from…

The House on Mango Street is a series of vignettes by Sandra Cisneros that records stories of Esperanza’s life on Mango Street in a chronological order. As she experiences things on Mango Street and matures emotionally and sexually, the vignettes transitioned from innocent childlike observations of the world to sharper reasoning of the cultural and social changes that’s happening in the Mango Street community. Sexuality and freedom are prominent themes throughout the novel. Withe use of symbols…

Sandra Cisneros and Reyna Grande through their subjective narratives emphasize the important contributions that migration played about their family relations and the development of their personal identity. Both authors touch upon similar themes relating to transnationalism and liminal identities, however they greatly differentiate when discussing the factor of citizenship and mobility. Cisneros is born in the U.S. while Reyna Grande is born in Mexico and later migrates to the U.S. as an…

Journeys to Safety and Healing The books The Bite of the Mango and A Long Way Gone are both used to illustrate the theme of journeys. The Bite of the Mango is narrated by a young girl named Mariatu Kamara who has grown up in a small town called Magborou all her life. But, when she is twelve the civil war that is raging in her country reaches her town and her hands are cut off by the rebel forces. After her encounter with the rebels, she walks through the brush for many days. She finally reaches…