Sandra Cisneros Essay

Obstacles Of An American Dream What are the struggles of achieving the American Dream? In The House On Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros a girl named Esperanza wants to live the American Dream. The House On Mango Street is about a young girl who is a part of a poor family who lives in Chicago. The obstacles of her family achieving the American dream are lack of trust, language barriers, and lack of poverty. One of the obstacles people have to achieving the American Dream is lack of trust.…

” Give an example of a work of literature from this semester that directly counters the “male gaze.” Explain how the author does so, where you directly see this in the work, and examine why the author does this. From the introductory line of Sandra Cisneros’ Woman Hollering Creek, it is apparent that most of the plot will be male-driven. It opens on the transaction of Don Serafín giving Cleófilas to her abusive husband, and her life remains constrained by the men in her life. In the case of Juan…

In the novel ¨House on Mango Street¨, by Sandra Cisneros, many conflicts regarding gender roles emerge throughout the novel. In Esperanza’s time, young women have certain expectations about marriage. This creates the theme that gender roles in the 1960s affected the way young women lived their lives; they either conformed or rebelled with the expectations. In the 1960s girls were not thought as strong or independent, especially if they were a person of color like most of Esperanza´s community.…

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…

In the book The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, Rafaela is a young woman who lives on Esperanza’s street. Rafaela is a beautiful girl who has taken a husband very young, however her partner is not the man of her dreams. She lives with her spouse, spending lots of time locked inside her room. She sits on her windowsill wishing she could go to the bar and find a better lover, but instead she must settle for her coconut and papaya juice, her current mediocre husband. Rafaela wants to find…

Simplicity “I have to remind myself to live simply and not overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world.”-Sandra Cisneros Growing up with hoarders, I lived in houses piled with random garage sale finds and stacks of butter dishes filled with useless items my family never knew we even had. It was a very tiny house. The miniature house was similar to something you’d see in Alice In Wonderland.It was crowded with oversized furniture covered in crazy patterns and colors and a…

Sandra Cisneros once said, “There is no perfect place, there is no wonderful utopia.” She believes the world is and will never be perfect, and we should all believe that too. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury shows us a society where its inhabitants think the world is perfect, but it’s mostly the opposite, and Montag can agree. Due to him constantly wanting to better his dystopian society, Montag becomes inquisitive as to why people do what they do, gains self-confidence after standing up to his…

The past is a key component into making who we are, but it is not the only component involved. Everyone dreams of a better life or a better future for themselves, so why is it frowned upon to break away from your past? The fear of losing loved ones and memories can be a reason why, but to achieve those goals you must make sacrifices. Leaving behind your past is a difficult decision, but to better yourself you must break away. . In the short story “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker, we are introduced…

In the novella The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, the antagonist, Esperanza, struggles with living on Mango Street, a poor, dilapidated neighborhood. Her desire to move to another town plays through the story, as well as her hope to achieve her goal. Throughout the novella, Esperanza’s dream to leave Mango Street develops into wanting more than just to leave, but to help others and provide for them. At the beginning, Esperanza’s original goal is to leave Mango Street and get away from…

The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros, and Black Boy, by Richard Wright, both exhibit hardships of a child 's life growing up around racism and racial stereotypes. The characters in The House on Mango street and the characters in Black Boy actions were shaped by their social conditions and their institutions. The events that these children went through definitely influenced how these children’s actions turned out throught the book. The House on Mango Street exhibited a lot of…