"Rosa Vargas" kids are too many and too much." (p.29) When kids are added to families it sometimes turns into a trap. In Rosa's case she has too many kids to handle, and her dream of having the big house and great dinners are now gone. In other case it's not the number of kids, but the parents rules and strictness. In Sally's house her parents are very strict, especially her father. "Her father says to be this beautiful is trouble. They are very strict in his religion. They are not supposed to dance."(p.82) With her father being this strict Sally has to be two different people, instead of just herself. Esperanza notices this and thinks, "You become a different Sally. You pull your skirt strait; you rub the blue paint off your eyelids. You don't laugh, Sally."(p.82) So she is not only trapped by her father but also by her own mind, in the way she has to pretend who she is. Sally wants to think by getting married she would be released from her "traps". But what she doesn't realize is that marriage is just as big of a "trap".
Growing up on Mango Street, Esperanza sees men and marriage trap many women, including her good friend Sally. Sally got married at a very young age, thinking it would fix everything, but she comes to realize the she had more freedom within the trap at home. ".he wont let her talk on the telephone. And he doesn't let her look out the window. And he doesn't like her friends, so nobody gets to visit her unless he is working.". "She sit at home because she is afraid to go outside with out his permission."(p.102) Sally realized fast that marriage was not as great as she thought it would be, as did Rafaela and Minerva. Rafael is literly "trapped" in her marriage. She often, ".gets locked indoors because her husband is afraid Rafaela will run away since she is too beautiful to look at." (p. 79) Even though Rafaela is locked up, it may not be anywhere as bad as Minerva's marriage because she is physically abused.
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. ...
