The House on Mango Street Essay

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…

There are millions of people living below the poverty line, 14.5% in America; many of these people don’t have a home or a nice place to live. In the book “The House on Mango Street”, by Sandra Cisneros, a young girl, Esperanza, struggles with living in a poor neighborhood and her concept of what home is to her. Throughout the book she learns what home really is, and her perception of home changes. While there are other conflicts in the book, this internal/external conflict is the most important…

In her novel The House on Mango Street (1984), Sandra Cisneros expresses the story of a young, indigent girl, Esperanza, who had recently moved onto Mango Street and is ashamed of the family’s shabby new community. Cisneros develops the story through a series of vignettes that express Esperanza’s experiences in her new home like the people she meets, their lives, hardships they face, obstacles that she has encountered, how they’ve affected her, and how her mind was changed. Through these…

be heard…we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.” Malala is speaking for young females, giving them a voice that they may not have. She is showing how being a female should be empowering, and women should not be held back. In The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros speaks of a similar idea. As Malala says, Cisneros also shows how being a woman can be empowering; however, Cisneros also shows how being a woman raised in a marginalized community can have negative mental and physical…

True success is something people have to work for. For some, this is nearly impossible. In The House On Mango Street, a novella by Sandra Cisneros, Esperanza lives through a tough environment, but comes out strong. Growing up on Mango Street really shapes a person. Whether they are changed for the better or worse, is partially up to them. Esperanza perseveres and learns from her experiences, ultimately living a good, successful life. She has many role models in her life. Many of the women are in…

Cisneros, Sandra. The House on Mango Street. New York: Vintage, 1984. Print. As I read The House on Mango Street, I discovered a few symbols. Such as the “Shoe” which could symbolize becoming a woman or embarrassment. Another symbol was the “Tree” which symbolized Esperanza; the book said that the trees didn’t belong in the neighborhood and that is how Esperanza felt. I also found some themes in the story. There was family, Esperanza didn’t feel close to her family, which might have…

you will be treated differently because of the way you were born. “The House on Mango Street,” is a book full of a series of vignettes the follows the life of Esperanza and her having to grow up facing the problems she has with being hispanic and growing up a women. Each vignette has its own problems that females have to struggle with and inequality to represent the female experience in some way. In “The House on Mango Street,” Sandra Cisneros uses symbolism of the shoes to develop a loss of…

English. The book, The House on Mango Street does a respectable job of highlighting instances where language created experiences of characters. In chapter four, My Name, the author first exposes her name. Esperanza. She starts off saying “In English my name mean hope. In Spanish…it means sadness, it means waiting.” This is symbolic in the sense that the meaning of her name in Spanish describes her emotional state in life. The fact that she wants to escape Mango Street but is unable at this…

The House on Mango Street is about what happens to Esperanza when she lived in a small house on Mango Street. Esperanza, the narrator of the story, lives with her father, her mother, Nenny, Kiki, and Carlos. As time goes on she makes some friends and loses some. Esperanza tells us about many things she finds interesting and all the small details she wants to get out there. Of course, she does not actually put these symbols out there for you to see. However, they are meant for you to find. Once…

Women and femininity play an important part in the novel “The House On Mango Street,” by Sandra Cisneros. The majority of the characters are predominantly women.The main character and narrator’s views on growing up as a female shaped most of the novel. Esperanza believes beauty is a sign of feminine power, but being beautiful comes with a price, Throughout the novel, Sandra Cisneros's reveals her views of women. In “The House on Mango Street,” Cisneros explores the challenges women face both…