In the novel‚ The House on Mango Street‚ Sandra Cisneros‚ shows the importance of education through the different characters in the book the reason education is so important is because you need it so you can have a good job and the second reason is esperanza knows the importance of education and reason three is you need to strive for success. You need an education so u can have a good job and the character Alicia knows this because ¨she does not want to spend her whole life in a factory or behind
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The work of fiction House on Mango Street is written by Sandra Cisneros. It shows the dreams of Esperanza‚ a little girl who lives on Mango Street‚ an impoverished area of Chicago. She likes writing and wants to be an author. Both Alicia and Esperanza view education and writing as a pathway to better life. Through these characters‚ the author suggests that education would offer a kind of freedom. Alicia is Esperanza’s friend. She likes writing. She always studies all the night otherwise she would
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The struggle to control oneself can be very challenging for some; it can become a battle within yourself. Over time one learns how to have control for themselves‚ but still some struggle with not being able to control the world around them. One will first have to start by controlling their needs and wants. Can the battle of controlling different desires be worse from what others want or from what an individual wants? Women have fought for their rights to control their decisions as early as 1789-when
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of “successful”. Having the perfect husband‚ a beautiful home‚ a great job‚ being a great mom‚ and a whole lot of money. These ideas are also called “gender roles”. The gender role of a woman has to fit many standards. In the novella‚ The House on Mango street‚ Esperanza becomes more aware her role as a woman in society as she encounters situations of the gender role of a woman. At the beginning of the novel‚ Esperanza is just a curious‚ innocent 13 year old girl. Having other women in her neighborhood
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reaching the “American Dream” is sought after by many all around the world. The “American Dream” is what minorities view as the ideal life. The difficulty and problems that can can occur while trying to obtain this goal were highlighted in The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. It highlights the many issues that face minorities while trying to obtain the “American Dream” such as discrimination‚ poor education‚ and lack of money as well as many other obstacles they have to overcome to obtain their
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with others. After she stated this I agreed with her and seen how telling stories is another way of sharing and storing our memories with others. I also agreed with Lauren when she said that telling stories are used to hide your true self. This is because everyone wants to show the world who they want to be‚ commonly through social media. Though‚ in reality they are in average person who is trying to show the world the best they can be.
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Keelty 1 Bria Keelty English 1 Mrs. Glatt 7 January 2016 “The Adolescent Quest For Freedom From Patriarchy” Goings essay of “The House On Mango Street” highlights Esperanza’s search for freedom from the patriarchal society of men. Esperanza is a child developing into an adult who struggles with the supportive and significance of the Chicano society that she lives in. She finds herself through experiences and frees herself and other women. She writes down her exposures and observations from
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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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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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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 girls can’t be faster/smarter/stronger
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