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(hook) Written by Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street is a beautiful coming-of-age story from the perspective of a little Latina girl named Esperanza Cordero, who has just moved to a new house on Mango Street with her family. The story follows Esperanza and the people she encounters during her time on Mango Street as she struggles to find herself as an individual/her identity. During the story, Esperanza discovers how her culture and social class affects her, how she relates to the roles of

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Showing Innocence in a Cruel WorldIn the story The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, the main character, Esperanza Cordero, shows innocence as her single, most-defining personality trait by removing the negative aspects of the world around her and replacing them with light hearted thoughts and actions. One day in Esperanza’s neighborhood, one of her friend’s cousin rolls up in a marvelous yellow Cadillac. The cousin drives the group around the block, but eventually stops when the police

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slim chance to none. The House on Mango Street written by Sandra Cisneros, leads us into a world of poverty, broken dreams, and slithers of hope. The House on Mango Street follows the life of a young girl by the name of Esperanza Cordero, who occupies her childhood in an indigent Latino neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois. The books expresses her dire need to have a place where she can call home, and escape the harsh reality of her expected life. Though, her life on Mango Street is bearable with help

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A future can never be certain, but there are things that may help it to become more clear. The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros, is a simplistic yet emotionally moving piece of writing. The narrator is a young Latina girl who has found herself living in a house on Mango Street. Not following a chronological order, the short vignettes give a sense of incomplete endings and a never ending story. Although the book does follow Esperanza’s viewpoint, the book’s title fully embodies the experiences

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The House on Mango Street, author Sandra Cisneros relives a childhood similar to hers, where the main purpose of life is having the ability to dream. Most characters that live on Mango Street, such as Esperanza Cordero, dream of having a better life and deserting their past of poverty and struggle. Cisneros constantly makes this apparent to the reader because without struggle and pain, the reward of “escaping” the neighborhood is not as meaningful. Throughout the novel, The House on Mango Street

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In the book The House on Mango Street, author Sandra Cisneros presents a series of vignettes that involve a young girl, named Esperanza, growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Esperanza Cordero is searching for a release from the low expectations and restrictions that Latino society often imposes on its young women. Cisneros draws on her own background to supply the reader with accurate views of Latino society today. In particular, Cisneros provides the chapters “Boys and Girls” and “Beautiful

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The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros is a fictional novel about a twelve year old girl, Esperanza Cordero, growing up in a poor Latino neighborhood in Illinois, on Mango Street. Esperanza dislikes and is ashamed of her house on Mango Street because it represents her family’s poverty. During this time, all women are forced and controlled by the men. In her neighborhood, most women are restrained by their fathers or husbands, leading them to wait for someone to change the present society and

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In Sandra Cisneros’ novel, The House on Mango Street, the protagonist Esperanza Cordero expresses her desire to transcend her current life and find her true identity. She poetically writes, “I want to be like the waves on the sea, like the clouds in the wind, but I’m me. One day I’ll jump out of my skin. I’ll shake the sky like a hundred violins” (Cisneros 60). This quote encapsulates Esperanza’s yearning to be part of something greater while maintaining her uniqueness. Throughout the novel, Esperanza

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chose a path of life. In “The House on Mango Street”, Esperanza is forced to think about leaving Mango Street in the future, because she is surrounded by women who are pushing her to become an adult.            The first example is Cathy, who knows all the dangers of Mango Street. “She lives upstairs, over there, next door to Joe the baby – grabber. Keep away from him, she says. He is full of danger.” (Cisneros 12). Cathy tells her what to avoid on Mango Street, and about the people on it. And

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Sandra Cisneros wrote one of her most famous novels about a girl who grows up very poor, struggling to overcome poverty. In the chapter “Mango Street Says Goodbye Sometimes”, Esperanza, a girl who grew up very poor is enjoying the luxuries of having her own personal house. With a joyful tone, Sandra Cisneros creates a hopeful ending in her novel to show how anyone can overcome poverty.With a hopeful tone, Sandra Cisneros explores the concept that the people you live around are very important. In

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