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    I don’t know to what extent it had been there‚ remaining there‚ before me‚ or on the off chance that I had been there previously. I saw one evening to turn upward from my daily paper‚ behind the blind that serves as the window dress before my most loved seat. It was an unusual shadow‚ an outline simply drawn. I felt no trepidation‚ interest‚ on the grounds that I thought it would be a fantasy of my eyes estranged by the columns of letters like ants wandered the whitish leaves day by day. I flickered

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    internal and external factors. An individual’s transition from childhood to adulthood (bildungsroman) is influenced by family and community but also by internal values and ideas. Often‚ these external factors influence the internal factors. In House on Mango Street‚ Cisneros highlights how Esperanza’s coming-of-age is influenced by her community by juxtaposing stereotypical ambitions of Mexican-American girls with Esperanza’s dreams and hopes for her life‚ and revealing Esperanza’s coming-of-age through

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    paragraph: Esperanza sees everyone in her community and in someway gets influenced by them. Whenever Esperanza sees someone in her neighborhood doing something worth writing about‚ she gets into deep thought about it. Esperanza also gets influenced by her own friends and family too. In this book Esperanza gets affected by the community she lives in and the people that live there. Body paragraphs: In this book Esperanza gets affected by the community she lives in and the people that live there. “On the

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    Poverty in The House on Mango Street and America Gasping for air‚ Rose from Titanic clutches the post for support as her mother‚ Ruth‚ forcibly yanks the tight laces on her corset closer. Whipping Rose around‚ Ruth glares straight into Rose’s eyes and admonishes‚” This is not a game! Our situation is precarious. You know that the money is gone!” Rose snaps‚ “Of course I know it’s gone. You remind me every day!” Bitterly‚ Ruth whispers‚ “Your father let us nothing but a legacy of bad debt hidden by

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    Oh right‚ oh Oh why na-da-da-da I keep my head high I got my wings to carry me I don’t know freedom I want my dreams to rescue me I keep my faith strong I ask The Lord to follow me I’ve been unfaithful I don’t know why You call on me This is my canvas I’m a paint it how I want it baby‚ oh I This is my canvas I’m a paint it‚ paint it‚ paint it‚ how I want it nigga Fuck you cause there There is no right or wrong Only a song I like to write alone Be in my zone Think back to Forest Hills‚ no perfect

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    discriminated against‚ and etc. It is very sad and depressing and that is not how we should live our lives. In fact‚ I have been a victim of discrimination. In 7th grade‚ I really wanted to learn how to solve a Rubik’s Cube. I went to the store to buy a Rubik’s Cube and when I went to go pay for it the cashier says to me‚ “You are too young to learn how to do that. You will never learn.” I replied‚ “Wanna bet?” This encouraged me to want to learn to figure it out even more. His discouragement/him discriminating

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    Sexuality roles have always influenced the world just as Esperanza experiences sexuality and gender roles in The House on Mango Street written by Sandra Cisneros. Sandra Cisneros’s novella filled with vignettes following a young girl‚ Esperanza’s‚ experience with moving to a new house which is to her dislike. In the novella‚ The House on Mango street‚ Cisneros is trying to develop through Esperanza that in order to become an adult‚ or coming of age‚ Esperanza and young adults must understand sexuality

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    Journal 5 The novel “The House on Mango Street” by Sandra Cisneros deals with the formation of identity‚ and looks at the challenge of being in between two different cultures and identities and not really belonging to either side‚ because you not really one‚ but not really the other either. This extract emphasises the need to not accept anyone’s definition of your life‚ the need to define your own life. The House on Mango St portrays the challenge of being caught in between two cultures‚ and in

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    The Power of Language Throughout The House on Mango Street‚ particularly in “No Speak English‚” those who are not able to communicate effectively (or at all) are relegated to the bottom levels of society. Mamacita moves to the country to be with her husband‚ and she becomes a prisoner of her apartment because she does not speak English. She misses home and listens to the Spanish radio station‚ and she is distraught when her baby begins learning English words. His new language excludes her. Similarly

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    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

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