![]() ![]() For example she is mature and understands the gravity of the real world. However Esperanza is unique in her own way, while reading you can tell she is independent and doesn’t want to live in poverty anymore. This book is sad, but funny to read, it’s sad to read the struggles her family goes through. People should consider reading this book because it’s relatable but also is funny and brings back childhood memories. Esperanza’s family is her mama, papa, and her little sister, Nenny, and her two brothers. ![]() Esperanza, being the main character, has two best friends, Rachel and Lucy. Her family isn’t the most wealthy, they live in this poor “sad red house” -page 110 chapter Mango Says Goodbye Sometimes- But she makes most of her time and she talks about the people around her and her friends. There is this book called “The House on Mango Street” by Sandra Cisneros, it is about this girl named Esperanza Cordero. In conclusion, this novel is one I would recommend everyone to read at least once in their lifetime. It gives you a chance to observe what it is like to live in an environment of poverty and violence.This novel showcases many themes and messages that every reader can either relate to or learn from. ![]() Still, we take what we can get and make the best of it.”Īll together, “The House on Mango Street” by Sandra Cisneros is a novel I would recommend readers to read. Butterflies too are few and so are flowers and most things that are beautiful. It shows this when it states, “Here there is too much sadness and not enough sky. You got to experience what it is like in their shoes. Some of the things I liked about the book is that you get to see what it was like to live in the center of poverty and violence. But other than that I really enjoyed reading the book. For instance, the chapter “Those Who Don’t” is only one page but the writing only covers half a page in length which is not a lot to read about. Since the chapters are very short, the topic of discussion changes every one to four pages. One of the things I disliked about the novel is the fact that all of the chapters are extremely short. There are many things that I like and dislike about this novel. At the end of the novel, Esperanza promises to always come back to Mango Street. Sally then gets married to a man before she enters the eighth grade. After that happens, Esperanza was then raped at the monkey garden by one of the boys while all the other guys watch. Esperanza is humiliated after trying to protect Sally from the group of boys that took her keys. Then Geraldo, a Mexican man who Marin meets at a dance, is killed in an car accident the same night that Marin meets him and the authorities don’t seem to care. In the middle of the novel, an old man kisses Esperanza on her first day at work without her consent because he said it was his birthday and he wanted a birthday kiss. Toward the middle of the novel, a bum offers to pay Rachel a dollar if she were to give him a kiss. Then, Cathy befriends Esperanza but their friendship is cut short since her family moves away from Esperanza’s neighborhood. In the beginning of the novel, Esperanza moves into a new house on Mango Street. You also get to see her making friends to enduring sexual assault. Throughout the course of the novel, you get to see how mature Esperanza becomes throughout the year. Because of this, Esperanza feels protective of her. She has a physically abusive father and ends up marrying a man that won’t let her see any of her friends or leave the house. This novel is basically about what Esperanza, one of the main characters, experiences while living in her new house on Mango Street located in a poor, mostly Latino neighborhood. I think people should read this novel because it has a strong message of growing up as well as showing the struggles of being a Mexican-American woman. ![]() “The House on Mango Street” by Sandra Cisneros is a coming of age novel that showcases many themes such as language and names, gender and sexuality, foreignness and society, identity and autonomy, and dreams and beauty. ![]()
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