The House on Mango Street Essay

Esperanza’s Identity The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros is about a girl named Esperanza. Esperanza is in one of those families that are always moving around. She first lived in Paulina, then Keeler, and then after that Loomis, but now she lives on Mango Street. Esperanza is a very helpful girl because she likes to help her friends and family. Esperanza also helps out her neighbors. The major part of Esperanza’s identity is how helpful she is. One of the main reasons Esperanza is so…

(Cisneros). Being trapped into a domestic lifestyle is what many of the women face in the novel The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros and Princeless by Jeremy Whitley. The House on Mango Street is a collection of short stories about a young girl named Esperanza who wants to escape from her home and the expectations that come with being a Mexican girl such as looking pretty, obeying the men of the house and being a common housewife. On the other hand, Princeless is about another young girl…

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…

and glory. Ten years before America declared independence, in 1766, Olaudah Equiano purchased his own independence with money he earned by managing his own business. More than two hundred years later, in 1984, Sandra Cisneros published The House on Mango Street and earned international acclaim. These very different people all had one thing in common: they sought the American Dream. The American Dream they pursued changed with time and evolves even now. However, although the American Dream varied…

Interaction with Others: An analysis of Esperanza’s identity development in The House on Mango Street Who am I? Who am I going to be? You must wonder about these questions sometimes, just like Esperanza does when she moves to Mango Street with her family in Cisneros Sandro’s book, “The House on Mango Street”. In the book, she gradually realizes the limitations of the neighborhood, develops her own identity and finally escapes Mango Street. Scholars such as Eysteroy (1996) and Crawford-Garrett…

Runner by Khaled Hosseini and The House On Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros can be examined using a psychoanalytic lens. Cisneros & Hosseini uses the psychoanalytic theory to show the various personalities of each character, id, ego, and superego. In the novel The Kite Runner, Amir recalls events that took place twenty-six years ago. The novel is written in Amir perspective and it shows how Amir became the man he is today. Meanwhile in the novel The House on Mango Street Esparanza, the…

Although America is the wealthiest country on earth, growing up in poverty significantly impacts millions of children all across the country. After reading Sandra Cisneros’ novel The House on Mango Street and comparing the lives of the characters to my own childhood, it was apparent that the low socioeconomic status of both our families had a profound impact on various aspects of our individual development. The financial struggles of a child’s parents inadvertently places a significant…

Equality is something that is perpetually strived for, but seldom achieved. In the novella The House On Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, the protagonist, Esperanza, does not want to continue the cycle of inequality. Throughout the story, Esperanza continually sees women in her life treated like objects in a society that values women for their looks, and not for what is on the inside. In the thread of gender roles, a theme that is developed is that men do not treat women as their equals, but…

man at the table. In House on Mango Street, author Sandra Cisneros illuminates the idea that stereotypical gender roles can alter based on one's determination to change.This becomes clear to readers when Esperanza and Alicia stay on track to better their lives, as opposed to Sally who makes poor decisions, allowing her to become the typical women on mango street. Esperanza and Alicia are both strong minded girls because they desire more than the typical woman on Mango Street. First in the…

In the story, “The House on Mango Street”, Sandra Cisneros discusses a child’s life about moving to a new house. The family is constantly moving, and now they have moved into a house on Mango Street. The house is better than the last place they lived in, which was an apartment on Loomis street in which the water pipes broke and they had no water. So the new house on Mango Street is an improvement, however it still isn’t the house the family talked about. The new house is small and worn down.…