Sandra Gould

Perhaps the most unique novel in the realm of storytelling is The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, which tells the coming of age story of Esperanza, a young Latina girl in Chicago, through the use of vignettes and indirect storytelling. Throughout the novel, Cisneros utilizes vignettes almost as if they were diary entries, showing abbreviated clips from Esperanza’s life, and telling her story and the stories of other characters though specific detailed and emotional moments. This method…

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, is about the journey through young Esperanza’s life. With her poor Latino family, and the struggles they all face. She remembers as a kid how they would have to move from apartment to apartment. But the one thing she could always rely on was her writing. Even if things are not going as planned, she could escape in her writing. Through living on Mango Street, Esperanza has created hr identity as a strong independent girl. Living in a…

The house on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros is really a coming of age novel of a Mexican American female developing in a working class Chicago neighborhood. The writer is similar to the main character Esperanza in a number of ways. One being that Cisneros was also a Mexican American female growing up in a Chicago working class community. While Esperanza is ashamed of becoming a Mexican American around white Americans, Cisneros is proud to be considered a Mexican American female. But she…

“If you give me five dollars I will be your friend forever.” This section of the vignette Our Good Day, page 14, is an example of subjunctive mood. This is when Esperanza is listening the two girls, Rachel and Lucy, when they are persuading someone to help buy the bike that they would eventually share. Cisnero’s use of the subjunctive mood helps reveal Esperanza’s inner wishes to have friends. Esperanza then says that the prices is cheap, since she only has one friend, Cathy, and she will only…

“Hey, Mr. Atkins!” Rick heard Peter call out to him again, but before the boy could hurl another insult Ricks way, Rick shouted out to him and Kyle, “Peter! Kyle! I’m glad you’re back! Come here quick! I was just thinking about what you guys had said to me earlier and do you know what? I think you’re right. So, I’ve decide that it’s time to get the place cleaned up a bit, don’t you? Anyways, I was wondering if you boys would like my collection of old, skin magazines?” The boys just looked…

Cisneros’s “The House on Mango Street” shows a young girl named esperanza grow up. Esperanza grows up isolated from what she really wants to achieve with her life. Her identity changes over time as she experiences different situations and challenges. She is unsure of her true identity, she travels through her life feeling different ways and overcoming obstacles, like poverty, sexism. As she gets older she finds parts of her true identity and learns more about who she truly wants to be.…

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…

over thirty six hours as they encounter taut situations of racial discrimination. Among the mass of characters that plague the film, several others stand out and prove to be more than their one dimensional stereotype. Characters like Jean Cabbot (Sandra Bullock), a rich and spoiled housewife whose nerves erode and shatter after being carjacked; Officer Ryan (Matt Dillon), a son of a sick father and racist cop who sexually harasses a black women; Daniel (Michael Peña), a Hispanic locksmith who…

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…