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House On Mango Street Gender Roles
Male/Female gender roles (Minerva, Sally, Rafaela, Mamacita, Linoleum Roses)
The House on Mango Street Writing Project
The book called House on Mango street is about a little girl that grows up in a poor naeberhood that is full of crime and violence. I think that having a male gender in the place they lived would have coused a different life steil for the family. They probley would have had a little less things to worry about with a boy instead of a girl. But if they had a girl they would be able to go places without being hereased about not being in a gang or something like that. I would much rather be a boy If I lived there than a girl. I would like be a boy because I would be able to protect my self if and harm came my way. I would be

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