The book The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros takes place on a run down street in Chicago called Mango Street. The main character of this book is a 13 or 14-year-old girl named Esperanza. Throughout this book she is faced with many different feelings and learns a lot of lessons in life. The main thing she learns about is men and her feelings toward them. Esperanza realized that so many of the woman in her neighborhood are entrapped by poverty, family situations, lack of education and marriage and men, and she vows that it would never happen to her.
Esperanza feels trapped by poverty because her family could not buy the kind of house that she could feel proud of. Esperanza's family had always talked about heir dream house that they planned they would own a t some point. "This was the house Papa talked about when he held a lottery ticket and this was the house Mama dreamed up in the stories she told us before we went to bed." (p.4) On Sundays, which was Papa's day off, the family would go out and look at the nice houses on the hill. "I am tired of looking at what we can't have. When we win the lottery. Mama begins, and then I stop listening." (p.86) Esperanza soon got sick of looking at all the nice houses: it just made her more upset and ashamed of her own house. 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. Rosa Vargas is even worse off. Not only did she not have the money for a better house; she barely has the money to feed all of her children. She ".cries every day for the man who left without even leaving a dollar for bologna or a note explaining how come." (p.29) As a result, Rosa had to spend most of her money on food and could not afford a new or better house, so she is "trapped" within her own house, too.
In some cases people are "trapped" by family situations. For instance, it is hard for Rosa to move and better her family because of the size of it.
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. ...
High Expectations 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. ... 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. ... The setting for this story is a specific setting because it has to take place on Mango Street and in that house he describes. ... He uses imagery to portray how the house he dreamed of would look like and how the hous...
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. ...
