Esperanza's Attitude In The House On Mango Street

Imagine there was a friend who was a different race and went through many experiences? Similar to Esperanza, in the novel, The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, Esperanza develops maturely as a daughter, sister, friend, student, employee, teenage girl and dreamer throughout the book. Esperanza is a teenage girl whose parents immigrated from place to place, from Mexico to Chicago. She has siblings with various personalities, ranging from immature to grown. Esperanza and her family moves into a house on Mango Street, where she creates and burry many childhood memories that may or may not be unforgettable. While living in the Mexican-populated neighborhood, Esperanza experiences many situations, ranging from sexual abuse to deaths. Esperanza

In The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisernos, the main character, Esperanza, goes from having a negative outlook on life to a positive one. Many difficult situations Esperanza faces show her changing perspective on the world around her. An example of Esperanza’s negativity is her feelings towards her home. Esperanza and her family move into a new house, on the not-so perfect, Mango Street. Esperanza has this dream of a “...white [house] with trees around it, a great big yard and grass growing without a fence” (70), but, “The house on Mango Street isn’t it” (73). The home she lives in is described as being “...small and red with tight steps in front and windows so small you’d think they were holding their breath. Bricks are crumbling in places, and the front door is so swollen you have to push hard to get in” (49).

In Sandra Cisnero’s novella, The House on Mango Street, Esperanza sees the importance of learning about her sexuality as she is growing up from her childhood to adolescence. In the first vignette, “The Family of Little Feet,” Esperanza and her two other friends receive three pairs of “dancing shoes” which they all are excited about. They get the idea to put them on and walk around town showing off how beautiful the shoes are. They feel good and special in front of everyone up until Mr. Benny at the grocery store notices the girls and asks, “Your mother know you got shoes like that? Them are dangerous. You girls too young to be wearing shoes like that. Take them shoes off before I call the cops” he threatens (41). At first, Esperanza and her friends don’t pay attention to what Mr. Benny

When passing through a poor neighborhood, have you ever thought, “this place is dangerous.” even though you just see what’s on the surface? The dirty buildings, run down stores, and unkempt roads persuade us to perceive that neighborhood in a negative light, but you might do this unconsciously because ever since we were young, socioeconomic status is what separates the “good”, from the “bad”. Sandra Cisneros’, House on Mango Street, shows us how harmful having a previous notion of a place or person can be. In the novel, we meet Esperanza Cordero, a girl whose parents never strived above the working class. Because of their low income, they are forced to move into neglected homes on the verge of crumbling, their final stop being Mango

In the collection of vignettes, The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros develops the theme that people should not be devalued because of their financial circumstances through metaphors of classism, the motif of shame, and the contrast between minor characters Alicia and Esperanza’s mother. Esperanza, the protagonist, is a Mexican-American adolescent living in the rural Chicago region. She occupies a house on Mango Street with her father, mother, two brothers, Carlos and Kiki, and little sister, Nenny. Mango Street is filled with low-income families, like Esperanza’s, trying to adapt to their difficult circumstances. Esperanza realizes it is difficult, but she dreams of leaving her house and Mango Street altogether.

Esperanza, a strong- willed girl who dreams big despite her surroundings and restrictions, is the main character in The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. Esperanza represents the females of her poor and impoverished neighborhood who wish to change and better themselves. She desires both sexuality and autonomy of marriage, hoping to break the typical life cycle of woman in her family and neighborhood. Throughout the novel, she goes through many different changes in search of identity and maturity, seeking self-reliance and interdependence, through insecure ideas such as owning her own house, instead of seeking comfort and in one’s self. Esperanza matures as she begins to see the difference. She evolves from an insecure girl to a

Esperanza is the strong-willed main character who wants to break free from the limitations and expectations of a women set by her community. Unlike majority of the women in her neighborhood, she dreams of her escape from this discriminatory treatment. As she blossoms from a young girl to a mature women, she comes to the realization that she can never escape, because that house on Mango Street is a part of her. She can only learn from her experience living her never flee from it. When Esperanza creates creates an original piece of poetry, she shares it with Aunt Lupe, who in return, shares some insightful advice. (60-61) Writing through all forms can allow people to escape the realities and bounds of life.

The novel, The House on Mango Street, focuses on a young girl who strives to figure out her identity. She continuosly struggles to find her confidence, along with who she is. People tend to struggle with self-acceptance due to society. Society analyzes each person and dissects every one of their flaws, making them want to change themselves to fit expectations. Moving to her new home, Esperanza began to spend all of her time embarrassed. She was ashamed of her new home, and also uncomfortable with her outside appearance. She felt as if her outside didn’t convey the true personality hidden inside her. All Esperanza understood was that she didn’t fit in, and that she is different. Esperanza tries to find the person she truly wants to

“The House on Mango Street” was written to explain the lives of a family living in poverty in 1984. Coming from Esperanza’s point of view, this book gave her siblings and friends an idea of who the real Esperanza was and what her priorities were. In this book, Esperanza moves from city to city, house to house, with her family hoping for a real house. When she gets to the house on Mango Street, it is not what she expects. She meets new friends and has some crazy experiences. This book has many societal standards but, the most important three are responsibility, happiness, and fitting in.

When society faces obstacles that are deemed a burden it is often forgotten that those same Experiences and tragedies often shape an individual's outlook on life and inspires personal growth from within. The Novel, The House on Mango Street reminds its readers that even in the worst of times there is still a lesson to be learned as seen through the eyes of a girl named, Esperanza. The coming of age story deals with dark underlying struggles blanketed in the innocent viewpoint of a child forced to grow up frighteningly quick. The main protagonist, a young Chicano girl, reminds the audience of the importance of learning from past experience in order to form an identity entirely based on the individuals own volition. Sandra Cisneros, The author of House on Mango Street, uses Esperanza's struggles caused by her race,gender, and economic status to instill the theme of identity.

“He who falls today may rise tomorrow. ” When you are forced out of your home and have to live somewhere totally different with totally different people, that is called immigration. Lots of people, including Esperanza, have to do this. Esperanza Ortega was a 13 year old girl forced out of her rich, Mexican life to go to the United States and work tough jobs, discrimination, and lots of challenges.

Esperanza has lived her entire life moving from place to place, from bad neighborhood to bad neighborhood. Her past dwellings were old and rickety and the house on Mango Street was no different. “Bricks are crumbling in places, and the front door is so swollen you have to push hard to get in” (4). She was surrounded by people with tragic lives, trapped in poverty and abusive relationships, and saw how much they suffered every day. Her friends dealt with abusive males in their households and they were bound in fear. “But Sally doesn't tell about that time he hit her with his hands just like a dog” (92). Esperanza witnessed these things and decided to let them fuel her motivation to leave Mango Street. She wants to be an independent person owned by no one. Her rage gives her the determinations to escape.

Every person has there own story to tell on how they have grown as a person. In the House On Mango Street by author Sandra Cisneros, the idea of growing up plays a big role in the story. In life people have expectations that they want to reach but along the way there will alway be bumps on the road but that’s just apart of growing up. This becomes clear to the reader when Esperanza starts finding out more about the world as she grows up. Throughout the story she continues to expirence new challenges in life that she has never thought of before.

As in life, Esperanza’s maturity evolves and grows during the course of the vignettes as she develops and gains new experiences. Throughout The House on Mango Street, maturity is a dominant theme for Esperanza as she goes from a girl who wants a new house purely for superficial reasons, to someone who wants independence by making everything dependent upon how men see her, to someone who wants the independence of her own home and who has accepted Mango Street as a part of her. In the beginning, Esperanza is focused solely on how others see the house, and the embarrassment that comes with claiming it. She feels the judgment from the woman asking her, “You live there?

Esperanza is led by the dream to leave Mango Street at once, nevertheless she knows that she will have to return one day to help and encourage all those who will fallen in the big hole of hopelessness. She can leave Mango Street but she can not escape