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    between two totally different cultures. In the book “The House On Mango Street” by Sandra Cisneros is a coming to age novel. It tells a story about Esperanza a latina girl growing up in the wonderful world of Chicago with her friends and family. Esperanza and her family recently have moved to mango street. They have moved around a lot in her lifetime because they are poor. Esperanza is determined to leave the house on mango street but in her latino culture most women leave by

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    Esperanza for almost three years. Everyone in town is expecting for the long table to be set‚ since three years is three years. To his father’s frequent visits to Judge Salas’ place‚ he had this unexpected burst of emotions for Alfredo Salazar‚ a calm placid and young lawyer is engaged to the judge’s sister in law‚ Julia Salas.Perplexity rises here; to stick to what HE WANTS to do or to what HE NEEDS to do. Is it Esperanza‚ a fine woman dressed in elegance and self-consciousness and sticking to the

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    The Trees of Hope and Courage In The House on Mango Street‚ the author Sandra Cisneros takes you into a completely different world through the eyes of a young‚ insecure Esperanza growing up in a poor section of Chicago. A vignette that especially stood out was “Four Skinny Trees”. In this vignette Esperanza is describing four skinny trees that are overlooked and underappreciated. Cisneros uses powerful personification techniques that not only create vivid images but trigger intense reactions

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    in a quiet voice to go upstairs. He followed her. She gave him a tour of the house in case he doesn’t get confused where everywhere is. Then they went to Esperanza’s room and talked about each other‚ played with her toys that her Papa had bought her‚ and got closed together even in few hours. Esperanza wanted to ask how her mom died‚ but she didn’t want him to feel bad. Neither herself too. So she just talked about the life going on right now.In the late night‚ when Mama and Amador came‚ Amador greeted

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    revised on 10/13/11 English IX Mrs. Rosett Revision Boys and Girls PG 8 “The boys and the girls live in separate worlds. The boys in their universe‚ and we in ours. My brothers for example. They’ve got plenty to say to me and Nenny inside the house. But outside they can’t be seen talking to girls. Carlos and Kiki are each other’s best friends…not ours. Nenny is too young to be my friend. She’s just my sister and that was not my fault. You don’t pick your sisters‚ you just get them and sometimes

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    can even hold false hope. One can dream of being or doing something they truly aspire and it can make them accomplish it. Even though this is possible‚ people can experience not having the support from people that are in their everyday lives. In Lorraine Hansberry’s play‚ “A Raisin in the Sun” and the novel “The House on Mango Street” by Sandra Cisneros‚ both authors convey the idea that women must work hard for their dreams of having a better future even when men do not support their idea like

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    You’re holding a handbook for visionaries‚ game changers‚ and challengers striving to defy outmoded business models and design tomorrow’s enterprises. It’s a book for the… written by Alexander Osterwalder & Yves Pigneur co-created by designed by Alan Smith‚ The Movement An amazing crowd of 470 practitioners from 45 countries design by Alan Smith‚ The Movement www.thmvmnt.com photography by Rannie Turrigan Toronto‚ Canada Euro values are calculated at ¤ 0.70 to the U.S. dollar. illustrations

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    Just from reading this quote‚ I can clearly tell that it is significant. For instance‚ the use of italics indicates importance to the word ‘there.’ The reader can see how this word is referred to negatively. When the nun emphasizes the word ‘there’ in the quote‚ Esperanza (the main character) says she feels like nothing. The place where Esperanza lives must be unappealing in order to cause her to feel this way. This also shows the impact Esperanza’s home has on herself. Vivid imagery is also expressed

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    House on Mango Street response After finishing House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros which is a “coming of age story” genre. Point of the author was to express everyone’s hopes and dreams. In the reading Esperanza shares her stories throughout the vignettes‚ she expresses her opinion toward a certain topic and also talks about stories of the people she meets in the neighborhood‚ furthermore talks about her dream house that she wants to have in the future The vignettes included mostly opinions

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    Zsante Washington 6 Ms. Wilson English 9 1 November 2013 The House on Mango Street Literary Analysis The novel‚ The House on Mango Street is filled with race and gender discrimination. In the novel strangers come into Esperanza’s neighborhood and discriminate Esperanza and her neighbors. Also because Esperanza is a girl‚ she is not treated equally as the boys and must follow the traditional gender roles for females. Race and gender come into conflict when Esperanza is unable to interact

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