Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street follows the story of a young girl named Esperanza and her life experiences growing up on Mango Street, the all-Hispanic community at which people of opulence look down upon and grimace. Esperanza has always had an ideal image and dream of what living in a house should be like, and when her life on Mango Street turns out to be nothing like she expected, she struggles to make a home out of the place and tries to figure out her identity while doing so. ... "Down, down Mango Street we go. ... However, their impression of high-heels vary greatly ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Cisneros is most famous for her novel The House on Mango Street that had become a very popular read all around the country. ... Finally in 1984, she became known with the publisher of, nonetheless, The House on Mango Street. ... Sandra Cisneros has accomplished so much. ... When she wrote The House on Mango Street, she was writing about HER story. ... Through "The House on Mango Street," Cisneros caught so many young readers' attention due to the, in a sense, personal level she wrote in which they very well connected to. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The book I read was The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. ... It is about a girl named Esperanza who moves into a new house on Mango Street. ... The house on Mango Street is not what Esperanza thought they would get. ... She is kind of upset because the house on Mango Street is not what she expected. ... The house on Mango Street was not what she wanted, but is what she could get. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Sandra Cisnieros depicts women as slaves in society who are ruled by an iron fist of males in The House on Mango Street. ... The House on Mango Street brings forth circumstances where women have been sought as possessions, and also become subject to oppression by the fanaticism of males in today's society. ... In addition, in the chapter "Minerva Writes Poems," Sandra Cisneros depicts the sad existence of a girl not much older than Esperanza. ... The women in on Mango St. never really have the chance to live their life to the fullest. ... "And so the women must go on living their life...

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• Grade Level: High School

In The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, Esperanza is an extremely tragic character. ... So, obviously, Cisneros means to drill the idea about beauty into our heads. ... This was an interesting technique that Cisneros utilized. In whole, The House On Mango Street demonstrated societies oppression of Latina females in Urban communities like Chicago today. Sandra Cisneros obviously spent much time showing readers what to do and what not to do. ...

• Word Count: 1031
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School