Novel Questions: The House on Mango Street - Pages 49-69 In the “Hips” chapter concerning the girls’ images of themselves‚ I learned that Esperanza sees her hips as a sort of gateway and advantage‚ though she doesn’t know exactly for what yet‚ as well as they give her a sense of authority to some degree. “They are… ready and waiting like a new Buick with the keys in the ignition. Ready to take you where?” (pg 49) “… That’s right‚ I add before Lucy or Rachel can make fun of her. She is stupid
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In Sandra Cisneros’s The House On Mango Street the author’s use of leimotif shows the reader that where your feet take you and how you look establishes who you are. Throughout the book Cisneros uses leimotif many times. In chapter six‚ "Our Good Day"‚ Esperanza is explaining how rugged Lucy and Rachel look. She says "They are wearing shiny Sunday shoes without socks. It makes their bald ankles all red‚ but I like them." (15). Rachel and Lucy are two kids that come from poor families. They only
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In Sandra Cisneros’ book‚ “The House on Mango Street‚” Cisneros writes that‚ “the boys and girls live in different worlds” (Cisneros 8). There are only so many ways one could translate this sentence‚ and one of the meanings that can be deduced is that boys and girls are treated differently. This idea holds true today‚ but the gap between what people think boys can do and what people think girls can do has become smaller over the past years. But still‚ there are some prejudices left‚ things like
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Female Sexuality On the book The House on Mango Street Esperanza is a little girl that is affected by different situations. There are things that happened to her that shaped her as an individual and change her perspective of life. Female sexuality is a really strong topic where we can see how young females are affected with it and how they see it. Esperanza is a young virgin girl at the beginning of the book and she longs to have a sexual encounter for it is something new for her. She is just
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dreams that they wish to accomplish‚ but along the way they have also discovered the bitter reality of the immigrant experience and hardships that they must overcome on their journey to America. Based on the readings of Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street‚ Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club‚ and Elva Trevino’s Barefoot Heart‚ the immigrant experience is seen through the eyes of the main characters. All of the authors offer a different perspective from each character as to how the immigrant experience
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I told my mother what had happened‚ but she made no comment; she sat down at once‚ wrote another note‚ gave me more money‚ and sent me out to the grocery again. I crept down the steps and saw the same gang of boys playing down the street. I ran back into the house. “What’s the matter?” my mother asked. “It’s
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events caused Esperanza to change in some way‚ and ultimately leading to the decision she makes at the end. As she grows up‚ she begins to notice the women and their struggles around her. She observes the women around her‚ searching for a female role model. In “My Name”‚ Esperanza explains the origin of her name: “it was my great-grandmother’s name and now it is mine…[she was] a wild horse of a woman‚ so wild she wouldn’t marry. Until my great-grandfather threw a sack over her head and carried
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Esperanza is jealous of Lois‚ Sire’s girlfriend as portrayed in many lines in House on Mango Street. “Sometimes I hear them laughing late‚ beer cans and cats and the trees talking to themselves: wait‚ wait‚ wait.” Esperanza is always watching Sire and his girlfriend‚ “Sometimes I hear them laughing‚” and this shows Esperanza is jealous of
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“The House on Mango Street isn’t it. For the time being‚ mama says. Temporary‚ says papa. But I know how things go”(5-6). In The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros‚ Esperanza is the main character who is a young girl who is naive and has different ways of seeing life. By the end of the novella she has matured and understands more about life because of experiences that both forced and motivated her to change. Esperanza had thought that boys and girls were nothing alike. She had thought that
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in Sandra Cisneros’s “The House on Mango Street” inevitably leads to disappointment; however fulfilling these dreams is still a possibility despite of its non-actuality. Esperanza lives out unfulfilling life disappointed by the uninspiring house she lives in‚ a worthless music box‚ and the dream of eating in the canteen. Esperanza had hoped for more‚ even believed in more than what she received; a shabby‚ broken-down house on Mango Street. The description of the house Esperanza’s parents provide
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