The House On Mango Street By Sandra Cisneros

To add on, in The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros makes a point that women in Esperanza’s community, men are dominant and almost nothing is expected of women. Sandra Cisneros demonstrates these aspects through characters such as Sally, Esperanza’s friend and Minerva, the woman who likes to write poems. In the vignette “The Monkey Garden” (pgs. 94-98) , Sally and Esperanza are encountered by a group of boys who try to get Sally to kiss them as a part of their “game”. Esperanza knows it isn’t right but she can’t do anything since Sally thought it was okay that the boys did that to her. Since Sally was abused by her dad for so long, she might’ve forgotten what it was to have self-respect. In the vignette “Minerva Writes Poems” (pgs. 84-84),