The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros is a story about a boy who does not like the new home they are living in. In it the narrator starts off by telling the readers that they have moved from place to place, and every time they move there is an additional person with them. He thought the house on Mango Street would be a nice house like the one his father and mother used to describe. Little did he know that the house on Mango Street is not what he imagined and finds great embarrassment in living there. Cisneros shows that we are use to dreaming of high expectations and when we come back into reality we find out that life is just playing its tricks on us.
The main character in this story is the narrator. He is shown as being a round character because he has a couple of sides to his personality. The narrator starts off criticizing his family on how it tends to get bigger every time they move. This is shown when he says, "Each time it seemed there"d be one more of us." He is also critical about the places he has stayed and what he expects out of moving to a new place. He says, "The house on Mango Street is ours, and we don't have to pay rent to anybody, or share the yard with the people downstairs, or be careful not to make too much noise." He is expecting to move to a better place where they will not have to worry about all those things. When he faces reality at the end he feels as if he had been betrayed because he thinks people look down on him because of where he lives. An example is, "I knew then I had to have a house. A real house. One I could point to. But this isn't it.".
There is an internal conflict in the story between the narrator and himself. He wants one thing but ends up getting something that is the exact opposite. He says, "Bricks are crumbling in places, and the front door is so swollen that you have to push hard to get in." He realizes that what he wants in life is not easy to get.
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. ...
These two stories "The House on Mango Street" and "Girl" are two stories that have great significance to each other even though both stories are different. ... "The House on Mango Street" talks about how they lived there lives due to certain situations. ... The house on Mango Street displays an array of troubles in a home which they are fortunate to live in, but are looking to a better future. ... Even though the house on Mango Street and "Girl" has significance amongst each other we can still see their differences. ... In The House on Mango Street the protagonist shows that what once was a pr...
In "The House on Mango Street," Sandra Cisneros creates a believable scene using different elements of creative writing. Cisneros uses her description of the setting to allow "The House on Mango Street" to have a life of its own. ... Of the house on Mango Street, Cisneros describes it as "small and red with tight little steps . . . and windows so small you"d think they were holding their breath . . . ... Of the house on Mango Street, "For the time being, Mama says. ... Sandra Cisneros" use of setting, theme, and point of view in the short story "The House on Mango Street" enables he...
They used to live on Loomis before moving to Mango Street and before that her family lived on Keeler and before Keeler it was Paulina and before that she could not remember. ... As the author describes the house on Mango Street she is very disappointed. The house on Mango Street is very tiny that it fits her whole family into one bed room. So the conditions of the house on Mango Street are just a little better than the one on Loomis. ... She is unhappy when showing a nun the house on Mango Street with wooden bars nailed on the window instead of glasses. ...
In 1984, Sandra Cisneros published a collection of forty four vignettes titled The House on Mango Street. ... 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 accomplished their goal of purchasing their own house but, "Cisneros regarded the house as ugly and shabby and nothin...
In Sandra Cisneros' novella, "The House on Mango Street," a thirteen year old girl named Esperanza takes the audience through a series of events as if they are living Esperanza's life with her. ... All the families that live on Mango Street are poverty stricken and Esperanza hopes to one day leave Mango Street to become successful. ... Cisneros uses this man to represent how all men on Mango Street behave. ... Not a man's house. ... A house all my own " (Cisneros 108). ...
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros and The Elephant Man by Christine Sparks are novels in which the main characters are both searching for their identity in a society where they are not accepted. In The House on Mango Street, a young girl names Esparanza is self-conscious about her home, her appearance, and her name. ... The House On Mango Street is a novel which traces Esperanza Cordero's childhood through a series of stories about her family, neighborhood, and secret dreams. ... The novel begins when the Cordero family moves into a new house on Mango Street. ... At the end...
The House On Mango Street Summary This book is about young Latino girl named Esperanza who is growing up in a poor neighborhood in Chicago. ... She then visits a fortune teller, which only helped her realize that she is still ashamed of living on Mango Street. ... By the end of the story, Esperanza finally accepts Mango Street as a part of her. She still desired to have a new house so that she can be on her own, and pursue her dream of writing. ...
The book The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros takes place on a run down street in Chicago called Mango Street. ... Esperanza tells herself that she will get out of Mango Street and own her own house that she can be proud to go home to. ... Growing up on Mango Street, Esperanza sees men and marriage trap many women, including her good friend Sally. ... Mamacita and her family moved into an apartment on Mango Street. ... She decides that she wants to get a good education, then a job and move out of Mango Street and buy a house to be proud of....