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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…

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…

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…

House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros is a coming to age book concerning a chicana girl named Esperanza and the Mexican community around her. The book contains many dark moments and themes including criminal activity, rape, death, and abuse. Esperanza realizes many women suffer from abuse in the community. There are a variety of female roles in her life. However, many are trapped in abusive relationships and waiting for others to change their lives. Some are actively trying to change on their…

is not a shame, but being ashamed of it is. Growing up Mango Street wasn’t easy for Esperanza it wasn’t really easy for any one especially Esperanza. It wasn’t what she imaged in her mind or what she had been dreaming about but it was all her family could afford. She wanted something better which she could be proud about some place she could call home. When people asked her where she lived she was so resentful to say she lived on Mango Street. She was so resentful because it had the…

face and they are smart enough to know that the bigotry against them is naive and shortsighted. Pieces of literature are often created to help open people’s eyes to the different forms of intolerance people face and to help inspire change. House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros and The Help by Kathryn Stockett are similar in the fact that they both illustrate how discrimination can motivate someone to strive for change. The racial discrimination that Aibileen faces in The Help is the main…

Esperanza does not want to inherit her grandmother’s place by the window in house on Mango Street because her largest desire in life is to purchase a nice house, on a better street in a more respected neighborhood. The entire is story has very Marxism feel to it. As Esperanza tells her story she gives many examples of the belonging to lower class family living in a lower class neighborhood. The fact her family did not own a car. The manner she made it a point to disclose which of her neighbors…

In The House On Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, a young girl by the name of Esperanza moves to a new house and progressively grows up and matures there. The name of the book itself fits in because it is a part of Esperanza’s roots, she has emotions towards the house, and it is a part of her memory as she grows up. First and foremost, a home is a part of a person’s roots. The three sisters had to remind Esperanza of who she is. “You will always be Esperanza. You will always be Mango Street. You…

the rebels in novel treat other Africans brutally and manipulate them. However, this act is done by Africans and not from a European nation. The Africans use methods similar to the European nations, manipulation and brutality. In The Bite of the Mango, a rebel uses manipulation to get what he wants. In this case, the rebel wants to have a son, but he ignores his wife who gave him two daughters. The rebel, Salieu, sexually assaults Mariatu and makes her pregnant against her will to benefit…

The Strength to Rise Above Gender Roles on Mango Street The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros, is a book about the obstacles Latin women encounter while residing on Mango Street. In their community, males dominate and women are treated as if they are inferior. A woman's merit is placed on her outward appearance, as well as her loyalty to the men in her life. Throughout The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros utilizes the first-person frame of reference, portraying her struggle to…