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    The House On Mango Street is a unique novel that tells the story of Esperanza Cordova, a twelve-year-old Latin American girl growing up in a rough Chicago neighborhood. Esperanza and her family have moved around more times than Esperanza can remember. The latest move brings Esperanza and her family to a little red house on Mango Street. It is nothing like the house her parents have fed her and her siblings stories of; there is no white picket fence or big yard to play in, only two oak trees the…

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    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…

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    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. Esperanza said that the pipes in their old house broke and the landlord…

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    The House on Mango Street. By. Sandra Cisneros. New York: A Division of Random House, Inc., 1984. 110 pages. Paperback. $5.00. In her book, “The House on Mango Street”, author Sandra Cisneros documents through a series of vignettes the life experiences of a young girl, Esperanza, whose living situation is not one that she prefers, she describes the struggles, dilemmas and embarrassments that this young girl has to endure throughout her life in a place that is difficult for her to call home. The…

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    If Esperanza lived in a different neighborhood, she would lose her innocence at a different age because of the environmental difference. The novel, The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros is about a house on Mango Street in a location where the culture was similar to the families around them. The protagonist, Esperanza is told, “ Them are dangerous, he says. You girls too young to be wearing shoes like that. Take them shoes off before I call the cops, but we just run” (41). The high-heels…

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    The House on Mango Street Essay When kids are maturing from children to adults they have to make decisions that portray themselves to have the capability to be responsible, strong, and mature. Over the course of The House On Mango Street Esperanza's had many goals but, her main goal was to one day have a house of her own. She has always felt unworthy because of her home but she believes that one day she will be proud of her own. Throughout Esperanza's life she always wanted to achieve many…

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    One of the many topics discussed by Sandra Cisneros in her story The House on Mango Street is male and female gender roles. In the vignette, My Hair, Esperanza states, "the Mexicans, don't like their women strong". What the author means by this is that in Mexico it is common that the woman stay home, cook, clean, and take care of the children while the husband goes to work. In this situation, and really any other, the women is considered weak and is expected to obey the husband. It is not…

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    many emotions and questions. Sexuality can be an extremely confusing and frightening time for many young girls. Esperanza experiences a variety of new emotions and experiences new things because of her growing sexuality. In the book The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, Esperanza is a young girl facing many new challenges in her life including her developing sexuality. Symbolism is used in the text. Sandra Cisneros’s use of symbolism in the different shoes symbolizes Esperanza’s…

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    “If you follow in other’s footprints, you won’t make any of your own,”-Unknown. That is what the protagonist named Esperanza from the novel, The House on Mango Street, wants to be able to do. She wants to be able to pave her own path and determine her own faith. Throughout the story the author reiterates this central idea including these quotes, “My great grandmother. I would’ve liked to have known her, a wild horse of a woman, so wild she wouldn’t marry. Until my great grandfather threw a sack…

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    The house on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros. This book involve of theme including racism. A lot of people think that people should be doing certain things. People that live on the Mango street has something that they can live at, they can be with the family, but people doesn’t think it like that because they think that a certain race should have more than what they have. Do you ever put yourself into someone spot, and feel like what they been going through? Even though, we are all brother and…

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