Mango

In this essay it's explored how we shed our roots, family, ethnicity and culture to become someone else, using personal connections and from the protagonist from The House on Mango Street, Esperanza. But can ever truly shed our roots? The link between our family ethnicity and culture is a part of us, we may follow religious beliefs, traditions and beauty standards. In comparison to Esperanza I am also latino, we often follow our parents views, woman usually stay home and we have strict beauty…

I saw a Youtube video about a dog infested with mango worms, and I was disgusted. I could not look away as the vet squeezed the dog’s skin, making the worms pop out. I could think of only one word to describe what was left in the dog’s skin as the worms left: orifices. I never thought that I could hate a word, but it turns out I was wrong. I absolutely hate the word “orifices.” I hate the word because it reminds me of the holes in the dog’s skin. In some places the dog had no hair left, just…

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…

stories, a character’s identity is influenced and shaped by the world around them to develop who they are. In the fictional narrative, The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, readers sink into the depths of a significant period in a character’s life when she explores the real world and uncover its secrets. Esperanza has finally moved to a house on Mango Street, however, as she interacts with the people and things in her surroundings, she discovers that there are many hardships packaged in…

places where she lives, whether it’s the house on Mango Street or the places prior to that. In this quote, Esperanza reflects on a past event from when lived on Loomis. Here, a nun asks her where she lives. When Esperanza points to the third floor, where she lives, the nun responded with shock by saying, “’You live there?’”, which hurt Esperanza. With the nun’s emphasis on “there”, it made Esperanza feel as if she was nothing. Even with the house on Mango Street, Esperanza also feels shameful…

House on Mango Street paper In the story The House on Mango Street there are different topics for each vignette. One topic that has been repeated in multiple vignettes is abuse and the effect it has on the women in the Mexican culture. Women in the Mexican culture are viewed as less then compared to men so abuse is more prevalent and overlooked then it should be. For example in the vignette “Minerva Writes Poems” Minerva is being physically abused by her husband an keeps going back to him even…

In the book, "The House on Mango Street," a young girl named Esperanza dreams of a big and fantastic house, but must live in a crummy, old house on Mango Street. Mango Street is rumored to be very dangerous and terrible, but is really a nice neighborhood. Her neighborhood is not exactly the perfect neighborhood to live in. Men in her neighborhood sometimes abused women and took their freedom away. Esperanza is not the type of girl that gives up her freedom the way some of her friends did. She…

feel trapped by society due to prejudices held against them or due to their socio-economic standing. In literature, when one believes one is trapped, it often reveals a divide wherein one is trapped either figuratively or literally. In The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, the struggles of a young girl in a poor urban neighborhood are detailed as she attempts to come to terms with her family’s…

individual. However, finding ones true-self can be quite difficult since it is the strongest part of one’s personality. Many people identify themselves with ownership, whether it is devices, automobiles, or even a home. In the story, “The House on Mango Street”, Sandra Cisneros examines a young girl who has to deal with her family living in poverty. The family is constantly moving and they eventually have a home, but it isn’t the one the family talks about, more importantly, it isn’t the house…

The boys in their universe and we in ours.” (8) The novel The House on Mango Street is set in a low-income latino neighborhood in Chicago. The center of the book is around Mango Street, Esperanza and her family move in the neighborhood with a promise to one day have a “real home one you can point to.” (5) The narrator is soon to learn the true of society and her role as a women. The author, Sandra Cisneros in The House on Mango Street depicts the idea that women need to stand together and…