Only Daughter by Sandra Cisneros Essay

House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros is a coming to age book concerning a chicana girl named Esperanza and the Mexican community around her. The book contains many dark moments and themes including criminal activity, rape, death, and abuse. Esperanza realizes many women suffer from abuse in the community. There are a variety of female roles in her life. However, many are trapped in abusive relationships and waiting for others to change their lives. Some are actively trying to change on their…

an undocumented immigrant and later as a legal resident. In addition to my primary texts, I will use interviews and podcasts of Sandra Cisneros and Reyna Grande to better analyze the life and identity of the authors. I will conduct this study under with my faculty advisor Dr. Hector Calderon with whom I will have biweekly one-on-one meetings. Additionally, Dr. Sandra Ruiz will provide further feedback on my project. For the purpose to have a fundamental understanding of the historical…

a desire for a sense of belonging. Whether it is at their jobs, schools, or amongst their friends, people will always search for acceptance. The House on Mango Street, a novel beautifully crafted by author Sandra Cisneros depicts a young Latino girl's prolonged search for an identity. Cisneros portrays the young girl's evolution throughout the book by using ethnic and thematic elements. Through many hardships and life-changing experiences, Esperanza slowly blossoms from an innocent child into a…

themselfs. Many people are often influenced by the environment and people that surround them. Its these influences that allows a person to develop a unique and intelligent Identity. In this classic novel “The House on Mango Street” written by Sandra Cisneros tells the story of young girl named Esperanza who is middle age and grows up around her sister Nenny, and her friends Rachel and Lucy. She develops her identity growing up on Mango street through many little interesting vignettes. Esperanza…

Sandra Cisneros, the author of ‘The House on Mango Street,’ shows how an unlikely connection forms between the narrator Esperanza and the natural world around her— namely trees and plants— that somehow help her find the innate strength and inner peace that resides within her. Esperanza’s first bond with greenery is shown in the very first vignette, ‘The House on Mango Street,’ where she is disappointed at the lack of a front yard and only finds some comfort in four struggling little elm trees on…

mature, not everyone looks forward to the countless burdens of being a grown-up. One of these people is Sandra Cisneros, the author of The House on Mango Street. The main character of her book is Esperanza, a young girl who must grow up fast not only to stay safe in the shady neighborhood her family resides in, but to hold her family together through tough times as well. Through her story, Sandra Cisneros expresses to the reader that growing up is difficult to accept, but necessary to survive.…

was really going on in the world around her. But what I believe to be Esperanza’s true coming of age moment is when she was told that she would never find an actual physical home where she would belong and end up leaving Chicago, but that she would only…

The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros, is a coming of age novel about Esperanza Cordero, a young girl growing up during the 20th century in a society ridden with prejudice. The characters feel the need to assimilate into American culture and society and give up their Spanish heritage in the process. To demonstrate this process, Cisneros utilizes literary elements throughout her writing, such as metaphor to enhance the central theme in Esperanza’s narrative that self-expression in a…

In the book, The House On Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros, Sally is a person that Esperanza met at school. Esperanza saw her during a fight and she was lonely leaning on a fence by herself. Sally gets all the boys by using her looks and her popularity. She lives at home with her father. Sally dreams of escaping from her father. Although Sally is pretty, popular and lives on Mango Street, she uses her looks to get out of trouble from her father. One good thing about the identity of Sally is that…

In the novel “The House on Mango Street”, written by Sandra Cisneros, there is a very generic type of writing structure associated with each of the chapters. One basic aspect of the writing structure that is represented throughout the novel is the lack of quotations. While some may consider this incorrect and abnormal, it makes the novel quite easy to interpret and understand. Since every part of the book involves sentences and dialogue without quotation, it is difficult to cite specific…