The House on Mango Street Essay

english class that year but one book really caught my attention. Called The House on Mango Street. I thought the title was funny so I thought the book would be funny but turns out it’s a book about a poverty stricken family forced to live on Mango street. It was pretty boring in the beginning and it was very repetitive but it got better in the middle and in the end. I don 't enjoy biography type books and the House on Mango Street was a fictional…

Many have to come to the realization that this world is very cruel place. People have been oppressing and taking away rights from a variety of races, ages, genders, and more. In the article “Kentucky Votes To Ban Child Marriage,” writer Elizabeth Wynne Johnson explores the laws in place throughout the United States regarding the topic of child marriages. As given in the title, Kentucky recently put a law in place stating that children will not be allowed to get married at such a young age.…

and their mindset on body image. The narrator in “Barbie-Q” follows under the empowering opinion. Proof of this is stated in the quote: “So what if we didn’t get our new Bendable Legs Barbie and Midge and Ken….and had to buy them on Maxwell Street, all water soaked and sooty. So what if our Barbies smell like smoke when you hold them up to your nose even after you wash and wash and wash them….who’s to know” (559). This part in the story shows the narrator’s acceptance of her dolls…

This wasn 't the case in all the novels for example, in The House on Mango Street Esperanza, the main character, was embarrass of her roots, to a point that she didn 't even like her name. An important theme that was widely presented in The House on Mango Street was the machismo mindset and the reader saw how these mindset tied Esperanza down and made her feel powerless and how it made other woman in the novel…

Lindsay Roach Response Journals 5.3 Response 1: The Family of Little feet seemed insignificant at first because Esperanza talked about “Plump little feet”. At first this made no sense to the reader because she was talking about shoes and plump feet. But as this vignette goes on it was important to the characters because it was one of Lucy’s defining moments on her trip through life and an experience with a guy. Although the girls “Were glad the shoes were gone”, it was important for them to…

for so long, that the façade actually began to become the me I am today. I couldn’t quite remember the old me anymore and the idea of losing a part of my identity terrified me. It makes me wonder if this is how Esperanza felt at times in The House On Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. She, like I, was so utterly consumed by the thoughts of being ashamed of who she was and where she lived due to others’ assumptions of her home, that she tried to change herself, and slowly began to lose sight of who…

After reading The House on Mango Street, I´ve encountered two characters that stood out to me the most. One of the characters that stood out to me was Esperanza the main character in the book. The other character was Esperanzas younger sister,¨nenny¨ whose real name was Magdalena. Throughtout the story a relationship was created between the two characters in the book. Within this writing, It includes the analyzation of the relationship between the two sisters. To begin with, Esperanza was a…

Both Esperanza and Sally are attention seeker. They try to find attention from different places based on their social experiences. For example, in “Our Good Day” the youngest of the sisters states that “If you give me five dollars I will be your friend forever” (14). In contrast, in “Sally” the narrator says “ The boys at school think she is beautiful because her hair is shiny black like raven fathers and when she laughs, she flicks her hair back like a satin shawl over her shoulders and laughs”…

Any ditch, pothole, crack, is filled with trash. On the sides of the street there is people sitting outside of their dilapidated houses and shops, there’s children running around half clothed, dogs and chickens scavenging for any food they can, goats laying on graves, vendors selling trinkets they’ve made and drinks like Coke and Toro. There were people…

owning a nice house or property, being poor, or having a lower or less education or job makes one inferior. This can be seen in The Bluest Eye when Claudia explains, “renting blacks cast furtive glances at these owned yards and porches, and made firmer commitments to buy themselves ‘some nice little old place’” (Morrison 18). This passage shows how owning property was viewed highly by others in society. This can also be seen in The House on Mango Street when Esmeralda describes her house that…