House On Mango Street Reflection

Esperanza faces a large amount of adversity, which she must overcome, living on Mango Street. Esperanza knows that overcoming her situation on Mango Street will prove to be a challenge for her. “[The four skinny trees] strength is secret. They send ferocious roots beneath ground. They grow up and down and grab the earth between hairy toes and bite the sky with violent teeth and never quit their anger. This is how they keep.” (Cisneros 74) This quote describes that Esperanza can overcome her situation of being on Mango Street just like the skinny trees can grow up through the concrete. Esperanza feels that she must eventually come back to Mango Street because it was her first home. “They will not know I have gone away and come back.” (Cisneros 110) This quote symbolizes that even though Esperanza believes she does not belong on Mango Street that she is a part of it and she cannot change that. Esperanza copes with daily life by telling stories, stories of Mango Street and all those who lived on it. Esperanza’s ability to overcome the adversity in her neighborhood makes her a great choice for the show.

As a young girl, Esperanza is a young girl who looks at life from experience of living in poverty, where many do not question their experience. She is a shy, but very bright girl. She dreams of the perfect home, with beautiful flowers and a room for everyone. When she moves to the house of Mango Street, reality is so different than the dream. In this story, hope (Esperanza) sustains tragedy. The house she dreamed of was another on. It was one of her own. One where she did not have to share a bedroom with everyone. That included her mother, father and two siblings. The run down tiny house has "bricks crumbling in places". The one she dreamed of had a great big yard, trees and 'grass growing without a fence'. She did not want to abandon

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

Throughout the novel, The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, we see the main character, Esperanza, overcome several obstacles in her life and evolve as the novella progresses. Esperanza feels empowered by many things in her life, but most often we see her use her writing as an empowering vehicle for her escape from all of her troubles in her day to day life.

The House on Mango Street is a collection of vignettes written by Sandra Cisneros that is about a young Mexican-American girl named Esperanza, and the struggles of her life as she transitions from childhood into adulthood. Esperanza wants to find her true identity, but the conflicts and struggles that she faces throughout the story. Her town is a part of her adventure to find her self identity. She picks herself up, learning and figuring herself out throughout the novel. The author uses symbolism throughout the vignettes to convey the deeper meaning of conflicts developed in the novel, to show the difficulties of growing into adulthood.

At the beginning of the novel, Esperanza is an naive eleven year old girl who at first did not comprehend why her family would move constantly. Furthermore, she is the older sibling of five kids, and she was expected to take all the responsibility. Moreover, Esperanza mentions that her parents would always told her “one day we would move into a house, a real house that would be ours for always so we wouldn’t have to move each

Two worlds. Two names. One person. In life there are always two sides to a situation, and two sides to a story. Sometimes there are two sides to someone’s life. There is always going to be tension between the two sides to show that every situation is going to have a more and less favorable side, and they are both there to show us who we are. The House on Mango Street is about a girl named Esperanza, and she is trying to find her place on mango street, and her place in life. Her life is impacted, in good ways and bad, by every person that she meets. We follow her, her family, her friends, and others in her journey of living on mango street, and experience her growing, developing, and experiencing the life made for her. In the book The House

“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” (105). No matter what, Esperanza’s experiences on Mango Street have become a part of her and she cannot change it. In the novella, The House on Mango Street, written by Sandra Cisneros, the author introduces Esperanza, a resident of Mango Street, who constantly dreams of becoming an independent woman with a house of her own ideals. As she and her family purchase a house and become a newcomer into a new neighborhood of a crowded and poor Latino area, Esperanza faces mental and physical changes that affect how she sees the world. Sadly, the characteristics of the house consist of nothing of her desires. Due to her

The House on Mango Street,written by Sandra Cisneros, deals with a mexican girl named Esperanza, who grows up and dreams big in Chicago. Cisneros uses imagery, theme, and symbols to describe many things from Esperanza 's perspective. Imagery is used to describe items and people in a meaningful way. Cisneros uses various themes to show various ideas and beliefs. The symbols used describe objects and figures to portray ideas on a deeper level. Cisneros employs unique literary elements in The House on Mango Street that reflect meaningful ideas and beliefs through the narration of Esperanza.

House on Mango Street is about Esperanza, and her journey while experiencing life on Mango Street. She experiences twist and turns that makes her grow as a stronger person. According to Paul Hopkins, “And, after all, our surroundings influence our lives and characters as much as fate and destiny or any supernatural agency.” This quote relates with Esperanza because her moving to Mango Street influenced the change of her perspective and her life. Throughout the book Esperanza’s fate changes by the way she reacts to a situation.

In The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros uses the perspective of Esperanza to show how a low-income immigrant teenagers struggle to form their identity, while maturing. Esperanza has to be mature as she is an immigrant who doesn’t have the same privileges as other teenagers, whose family already have roots in America. There are many themes concerning this book, but the one that is most discussed in Esperanza's life while she grows up is the process of forming her identity. This theme is showed in many vignettes, although the ones that are the most specific at showing this theme are “The first job”, “My name ”, “Papa who wakes up tired in the dark”, and “The monkey garden.”

Esperanza is a young girl who moved to a small, red, beat-up house on Mango Street. Although everyone has to share a bedroom and it's not the home she had in mind, it is a home. Esperanza tells the story of the house she wishes to live in. She says “They always told us that one day we would move into a house, a real house that would be ours for always so we wouldn't have to move each year” (Sandra Cisneros 4). Esperanza isn't completely okay with where she lives, but she is happy to be with her family, even if the house she is in for the time isn't the best.

In The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, many ideas are presented about Mexican-Americans and how life is for them. In the story, Esperanza is a girl that lives with her family and has to live in a type of ghetto. Esperanza and even her neighborhood experiences racism. With racism happening, it shows the real personality of the characters and the different identities of each of them in this book. Esperanza is a young girl that wants a higher quality life than she is living now.

Being poor made Esperanza lose a major amount of confidence but it also made her more determined and strong thriving toward leaving Mango Street. When Esperanza's goal of getting out of Mango Street and into a better home is complete she will improvise that into a dream of allowing "bums" to sleep in her attic. Esperanza wants to tend to the homeless because Esperanza knows what it was like to be poor.

She says, “The Catholic high school costs a lot, and Papa says nobody went to public schools unless you wanted to turn out bad” (53). Esperanza was most of the time, the opposite of everyone else. She was a girl who was strong and determined to succeed in life. In addition, she was lonely and one day wanted to find a true friend all of her own. It is hard to find true friends, because all of the friends moved away in the next week or two.