In 1984, Sandra Cisneros published a collection of forty four vignettes titled The House on Mango Street. ... Despite being a fictionalized character, Esperanza's life greatly resembles Cisneros' upbringing. ... But the house on Mango Street is not what the way they told it at all. It was a small house with crumbling bricks, small windows, no front yard, no trees, hallway stairs, one washroom, and everyone had to share a bedroom. (4) The house on Mango Street did not live up to Esperanza's standards of her dream house. Likewise as a teenager, Cisneros' family had accomplish...

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• Approx Pages: 11
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate