Sandra Bullock

In many 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…

While everyone has their own vision of what romance is, most people experience something completely altered. Many people use romance and love interchangeably when in fact they have two separate definitions. In the story, The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros, the main character Esperanza faces the external conflict of what romance means to her and the difference between love and romance. Toward the beginning of the story, Esperanza views romance as a game. We see this when…

In the story “Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros, Rachel, the main character, depicts an event on her eleventh birthday that strongly affected her. The story begins by explaining Rachel’s perspective and her feelings on birthdays. It’s her eleventh birthday, but she feels as if she’s still ten years old. She expected to wake up and feel eleven years old, but everything was just like the day before and nothing had really changed. Rachel says that when we all do or say something unintelligent, that’s the…

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…

When asked what makes a story good, Cisneros has answered that stories should make you laugh or cry. And if it is really good, she says, the story should make you do both. In her stories, she works at changing the ways her readers look at their worlds, helping them to imagine better ways to live. In these ways, her work is related to that of major local color writers of the nineteenth century, such as Sarah Orne Jewett. Cisneros had periodically written poems and stories while growing up, but it…

Sandra Cisneros The author for this project is a multi-cultural, passionate author, with well known books and a variety of book genres with different combination of writing styles. Sandra Cisneros is incredibly gifted in her writing techniques, as she is a current literature educator and inspires people to see the world the way she does. Cisneros has done a good job of making her writing style comprehensible, many can depict what she's discussing about by just flipping to a random page in one…

“You live there? The way she said it made me feel like nothing. There. I lived there.” The main character Esperanza, in The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros feels that she doesn’t belong in the community. Esperanza is struggling to find her identity and is acquiring different things to change her identity. Her identity develops throughout the novel because of the people that surround her, her name and the house she lives in. The people that surround her helps Esperanza develop her…

apartment to apartment. She hopes that one day they will live in a normal home and get to do the things she can’t due to her current living style. The story is mainly about struggle for self-definition. In the short story The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, the author uses the stylistic technique of word choice to display imagery. The author uses many different forms of figurative language.…

In life people have something that is holding them back. It is how they choose to react that makes them who they are. In the novella The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, Esperanza goes through many challenges and poverty only makes them harder. The novella is about a girl named Esperanza. She lives in a Mexican neighborhood with her family. They do not have much money so that causes many conflicts throughout the novella. The novella starts when she is younger and shows some problems…

Maturity One person’s knowledge and understanding grows deeper when they get older and mature. This idea is shown through the novella The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. The House on Mango Street takes place in a mexican neighborhood which isn’t the best. It’s a poor, rough, and not very friendly neighborhood. The book starts when she is 12 or 13 and talks about her life and challenges till age 17 or 18. Esperanza negative view of herself slowly changes as she begins to focus on her…