...She is young and dizzy to hear so many sweet things in one day, even if it is a bum man’s whiskey words saying them”. Esperanza and Lucy see how quickly one can go from being a child playing dress up to selling oneself on the streets, which is essentially the image presented. When she gets home and says, “We are tired of being beautiful” it is an acknowledgment of the burdens of womanhood. Incidentally, when Lucy’s mother throws them away, Esperanza notes that “no one complains” (42). “Four skinny trees with skinny necks and pointy elbows like mine. Four who do not belong here but are here. Four raggedy excuses planted by the city” (74). She continues, “When I am too sad and too skinny to keep keeping, when I am a tiny thing against so many bricks, then it is I look at trees”...
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...In this book, The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros tells the story of a girl, Esperanza, who comes from a poor family living in a raggedy neighborhood taking challenges against herself along with her friends. Throughout this book, Esperanza has quite a few of female role-models who are stuck in abusive relationships which are currently trying to get out of them. This shows what women has to face and if they are able to overcome them. Esperanza talks about one of her older friends Ruthie who is stuck at her mother’s house. When Esperanza and her sisters ask Ruthie if she wants to go and play, she says no because her so-called husband is going to pick her up. Ruthie is a person who has been abandoned by her current husband, but she...
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...In the book called, “The House on Mango Street” by Sandra Cisneros, the main character, Esperanza has to share a room with her siblings because her family is broke. Esperanza talks about how she is poor growing up in a Chicago neighborhood. She was always sad to point at her house when others asked where do you live. She always wished for the stairs on the inside of the house and not on the outside. This made make her upset, and that might have changed her way of thinking. It then accelerates to a house to herself. The theme of the book is, being poor may lead to thinking selfishly. In the vignette, “A House of My Own”, Esperanza lead to thinking selfishly and now she only wants things for herself. On page 108, she states, “not a man’s house”...
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...Racism and Women in society in the House on Mango Street and The Help Acceptance, typically the idea of fitting into a certain group of people. Many people want acceptance from others, it’s what drives us to do the things that we do. On multiple occasions we find that some of our actions that we engage in are wrong or against our self-morals, but we do them anyways to fit in with the crowd. Most people become followers and forget their own morals, instead of thinking from their own perspective, they think in a way that will make them accepted by others. But not all people are like that, fortunately, people such as Skeeter in Kathryn Stockett’s The Help, faces peer pressure everyday about getting married or how she should treat certain...
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...because she’s learning through Marin and is starting her a chapter in sex appeal. Marin is like a role-model for Esperanza since she shows traits of confidence when talking to boys and does not shy away. This is shown in paragraph four, “What matters, Marin says, is for the boys to see us and for us to see them…Marin’s skirts are shorter and since her eyes are pretty, and since Marin is already older than us in many ways, the boys who do pass by say stupid things like I am in love with those two green apples you call eyes, give them to me why don’t you. And Marin just looks at them without even blinking and is not afraid.” Marin also longs for a rich future, hopes in finding a nice man who will take her away from Mango Street. Esperanza’s hopes are to escape Mango street as well so she really looks up to Marin and her hopes and dreams. “Those who don’t” Why aren't Esperanza and the others afraid? Esperanza and others aren’t afraid because they understand the daily hustle in their neighborhood and the people that make up the neighborhood. When you live somewhere your environment impacts your life and who you are significantly. Esperanza states in the 2nd paragraph how she identifies the people in her neighborhood, “We know the guy with the crooked eye is Davy and the baby’s brother, and the tall one next to him in the straw brim, that’s Rosa’s Eddie V., and the big one that looks like a dumb grown man, he’s Fat Boy, though he’s not fat anymore nor a boy.” She even states how her...
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...The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, is a coming of age novel depicting the story of the a girl as she morphs into a woman, Esperanza Cordero. As one of the 20th centuries most powerful works about self-discovery and growing up in a society ridden with prejudice, the House on Mango Street, consistently provides morales to readers which transform their views on the society both in the U.S. and globally. Moreover, Cisneros constantly utilizes literary elements throughout her writing such as metaphor to enhance the clarity of the central idea in Esperanza’s narrative, that there is a lack of one’s ability to express themselves freely as a result of a multitude of reasons. Esperanza’s lack of ability to express herself freely is a result...
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...“She looked out the window her whole life, the way so many women sit their sadness on an elbow” (Cisneros 10). This quote is a very compelling line from the novella The House On Mango Street, written by Sandra Cisneros. Sandra Cisneros writes about a young girl, Esperanza, who is a typical young girl, at some moments an adult and at some a child. Except,this child can exhibit adult perception. Throughout the story, Esperanza meets all kinds of women who in the end change her perspective of the world. Esperanza is determined not to become a women sitting by a window, like the rest of her neighborhood. However, Esperanza understands that when she departs from Mango Street, she will continue to protect the women in her neighborhood. Sandra Cisneros...
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...Hutchinson’s arrival. Nouns Adjectives Verbs Adverbs Lots--mostly characters Only 2--loud and soft Lots--different kinds Only 2--good-humoredly and cheerfully effect on tone, readers, and/or meaning of story The claim/thesis that I have picked is that Esperanza has a variety of female role models in her life. Many of those role models in her life are in a trapped abusive life. They come from a poor family and are not the cleanest people in the town. But they have something all in common and that is that they all want a change. Some want their change in a different way than the others, some want someone else to change their life, and the others want to change their lives themselves. For Esperanza she comes from a poor family and lives in a house that in her opinion is old and ugly and worn down. She is unsure what she wants someone else to change her life or if she wants to change her life by herself. My opinion of how someone should change their life is by the person who wants the change it. If you need someone to change something that you are capable of doing. It is better to change what you want immediately so that people can progress onward from where you ended, even if it is a marriage. One role model in Esperanza's life was her great-grandmother. In the book it states that Esperanza's great-grandmother was ¨…. a wild horse of a woman, so wild she wouldn't marry.(pg 11)¨ but Esperanza's great-grandmother was forced in a relationship by Esperanza's great-grandfather. Esperanza...
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...Rodriguez was a gang member that had got in many dangerous activities when he was younger, but now wanted to run for governor of California. He like esperanza a girl from House on Mango street, came from a rugged and bad life. He grew up in the hood as for esperanza grew up in a hood like neighborhood also. He never thought he will be able to become something greater because he grew up in a life of poverty. Rodriguez & Esperanza both become authors because they didn’t want to be apart the statistics that most latinos never become anything but criminals, field workers or just bad people in society. Rodriguez is running against jerry brown for governor because he wants to help people in poverty and give them a full view of life rather than what they experience everyday. He wants to add bookstores, art galleries, cultural places so kids can stop all the violence. This essay is going to explain why poverty doesn’t just mean your going to prisons, not get a job or don’t be anything in life like Rodriguez claims but tell you there is much more around the belt....
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.... Critical, yet ambitious and hopeful is the tone. It‘s impossible to ignore the critical lens through which the author portrays many of the social ills in this book. Men beat their daughters and wives. An immigrant is allowed to bleed to death in the hospital because the surgeon doesn‘t bother to show up. The wealthy are unable or unwilling to see the poverty and crime that has taken over a poor neighborhood in their city. 2. the narrator’s name, Esperanza, for the first time. Esperanza muses on the meanings of her name, but she does so in a random, nonsensical way that we are not meant to take seriously. 3. The tone of the last paragraph is accepting. Throughout the book, Esperanza has not wanted to belong. In the end and through help...
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...The House On Mango Street is a novel about various immigrant stories, in which there are challenges to getting to the American Dream. Have you ever been in a situation where you have not had enough money to do anything you wanted or get what you imagined or needed? Have you ever been discriminated because of your race, religion, or sex? Is there ever a time when you couldn't get something because you didn't know a language, or didn't understand what someone was saying? These are all interferences to reaching the American Dream. A big obstacle to the American Dream is discrimination. In document D it shows discrimination being shown to Geraldo, who was hit by a car in a hit and run. Geraldo was a party person who was wearing a saturday shirt...
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...On the story House on mango street the main character Espanoza makes it clear that everyone who is living on Mango Street is stuck there in an endless cycle that is very hard to get out of mentally and physically. They are in a circle of poverty and depression. She and all of the other girls that live on mango street are waiting for someone to get them out or trying to get themselves out of mango street. For instance one girl in the book named sally got out sooner then you should have by going to a state were she can get married under 8th grade and she did but now she is still trapped but somewhere else. She can not look out the window or go outside so she is stuck inside her home just sitting there which is very unfortunate for her. But she...
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...House on Mango Street Reading Log Entry One What is the family’s situation? What clues gave this impression? The family's situation was that they were too poor to afford a real house, and moved around a lot. If they did manage to find a place to live, it was generally a rundown house. On page 3 the author says “We didn’t always live on Mango Street. Before that we lived on Loomis on the third floor, and before that we lived on Keeler. Before Keeler was Paulina and before that I can remember.” This shows the reader that the narrator has moved a lot, and that she has moved so often that she was not able to keep track of all the places that she lived in. Another piece of evidence from page 3 is “... and we didn’t have to pay rent to anybody,...
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...Innocence in “Monkey Garden” In the chapter, “Monkey Garden,” from The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, the garden symbolizes the archetypal Garden of Eden from Genesis. Similar to Adam and Eve eating from the forbidden tree, Esperanza loses her innocence in this mystical backyard. As an under-privileged child on Mango Street, Esperanza witnessed adult problems that most children her age would never dream of, especially the maltreatment of women. In this fantastical children’s garden, the kids escaped their real-life problems in search of the lost treasures the garden holds. The rich imagery Esperanza weaves into her description shows the evasion of her problems: “There were sunflowers big as flowers on Mars and thick cockscombs bleeding the deep red fringe of theatre curtains.” The images of Mars and the theatre imply entering a fictional or distant world without everyday challenges. In addition, the kids on Mango fabricate rumors that align the Monkey Garden with the Garden of Eden, “Somebody started the lie that the monkey garden had been there before anything.” Through her escape into fantasy, Esperanza kept her innocence. Through it, she stayed a child until the next day. Despite the seemingly irrevocable purity of the Monkey Garden, Sally’s kissing game with the boys not only defiles the image of the Monkey Garden but also substantiates the gender inequalities suffered by the women of Mango. Esperanza’s love for Sally drives her to protect Sally against mistreatment...
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...from The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros.” • The except “The Three Sisters” is chapter 41 from the novel The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros published in 1984. • The chapter starts of by talking about three sisters, aunts, and they are las comadres and that is a Spanish term given to Godmother, ‘one with laughter like tin and on with eyes of a cat and one with hands like porcelain’. This gave a thought of maybe witches and further research of the novel/chapter reveals that they are representations of the “three fates” of ancient mythology and these are women who decide, death, birth and lengths of lives. • Lucy and Rachel’s baby sister died, and there was wake or a viewing that happened in their home, ‘anybody who had ever wondered what color the walls were came and came to look at that little thumb of a human in a box like candy’. • Esperanza then makes a wishes and the sister who had ‘marble hands’ called her over to tell her something. o “When you leave you must remember to come back for the others. A circle, understand? You will always be Esperanza. You will always be Mango Street. You can’t erase what you know. You can’t forget who you are. … You must remember to come back. For the ones who cannot leave as easily as you.” • “The story approaches the fantastical here (in Esperanza’s point of view), as the sisters seem to read Esperanza’s mind and predict her future. They recognize that Esperanza is already strong enough to leave Mango Street, but...
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