Do I accept compliments from men? Do I avoid challenges and challenges? Failing isn’t an option, is it? Am I a bitch or do I just not fit their idea of “be nice, you're a lady”? Don’t wear things that compliment your body and expect to have a peaceful outing. Don’t express too much of any emotions in any situations unless you are prepared to be labeled negative, no matter what. Opinions and expectations will always be said about you, especially if you are born female and identify as one. Your opinion of yourself is your greatest weakness, and only then can it transform into your greatest strength. Hold onto your double-edged sword, your life depends on it. Feminine rage - a concept that will either drown you or be the lifeline for your survival. Surviving in this world isn’t easy, but during a …show more content…
However, for girls to become women, it is an utterly different playing field. Adolescent girls must navigate this time with the acknowledgement that their ideas of self, society, and where they fit in (or don’t) will all evolve. This transformation becomes the passageway to feminine rage. Their world is often shifted on it’s axis to accommodate gender norms, society expectations, and their personal identity. In Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street, the concept of feminine rage is consistently manifesting within the females in the book who just want to be loved, free, agency, and equal within the environment they are surrounded by. People often state that feminine rage is this destructive concept that causes teenage girls to be considered “moody” and their thoughts to be dismissable. However, in The House on Mango Street the author proves just how powerful it can be in not only surviving this society, but in self-discovery. The main protagonist of this book follows an adolescent, Chicana, female named
The House on Mango Street is a novel by Sandra Cisneros. It is set in a poor, Latino neighborhood around 1960. The main character, Esperanza, is expected to get married in order to support herself. However, Esperanza strives for independence, and seeks to end the cycle of abusive patriarchy that holds Mango Street in thrall. Through the use of syntax and figurative language, Cisneros establishes that a sense of not belonging can fuel an individual’s desire for a better future.
The House on Mango Street, a fictional book written by Sandra Cisneros is a book filled with many hidden messages. The book revolves around a young girl named Esperanza who feels out of place with the life she has. She sees that the things around her don’t really add up. The story is told from Esperanza’s perspective and the events she goes through to find herself. Through the strategy of fragmenting sentences, Cisneros establishes that the sense of not belonging, creates a person’s individuality that makes them who they are.
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros is about a girl who struggles finding her true self. Esperanza sees the typical figures like Sally and Rafaela. There is also her neighbor Marin shows the “true” identity for women on Mango Street. She also sees her mother is and is not like that at the same time. The main struggle that Esperanza has is with beauty. This explains why most of the negative people that Esperanza meets on Mango Street, and her gender, helped her see the mold she needed to fill in order to give herself an identity.
“The House on Mango Street” emphasizes on this issue, even broadens to explain other controversial matters such as abuse, misogynistic views, and stereotypes. The protagonist, Esperanza Cordero moves to Mango Street where she must witness the abuse affecting her friends, neighbors, and family. Either Sally a close friend, Mamacita a neighbor, or her own mother handling 4 children. Over the course of the novel Esperanza changes physically and mentally. Through the use of imagery as well as complex, descriptive vignettes Cisneros epitomizes the misogynistic views within Esperanza’s
Modern society believes in the difficult yet essential nature of coming of age. Adolescents must face difficult obstacles in life, whether it be familial, academic, or fiscal obstacles. In the House on Mango Street, Esperanza longs for a life where she will no longer be chained to Mango Street and aspires to escape. As Esperanza grows up on Mango Street, she witnesses the effect of poverty, violence, and loss of dreams on her friends and family, leading her to feel confused and broken, clinging to the dream of leaving Mango Street. Cisneros uses a reflective tone to argue that a change in one’s identity is inevitable, but ultimately for the worst.
As an American short story writer, Sandra Cisneros was influenced by her mother. She made her get library cards and check out books to read when she was young. During her childhood experiences and ethnic heritage as the daughter of a Mexican father and Chicana mother, Cisneros adresses poverty. She is best known for the award winning House On Mango Street in 1983.This book mainly focuses on the treatment of woman in a Chicano community. The House on Mango Street as well as her recent books, Woman Hollering Creek and other stories have won critical condition of hispanic woman. She wrote the house on Mango Street which started without high expectations. Critics say that this book was highly acclaimed, but she then wrote a poem called The Wicked Wicked Ways, and it was perhaps the most widely read. As today, Sandra Cisneros is considered the most visible chicana in literary circles. She received her first fellowship in 1982,an which allowed her to write full time.She writes in very descriptive; yet simple language creating images through personification. She descriptively wrote on the House on Mango Street about Esperanza’s colorful world of beauty and ugliness. She is a writer who writes in her own way, she wanted to write books that were as unique as her. The books she writes are not like any other books she had checked out form the library or read in school. She wrote about her childhood memories and also the every day language she heard in her “vecindad’ meaning neighborhood in Spanish. She lived in an apartment that had no attic, she felt homeless because neither did she have cellars or crannies but, only a basement which consisted of spiders and mice where no one wanted to store things down there. She then realized that s...
Symbolism is the key to understanding Sandra Cisneros’ novel, “The House on Mango Street”. By unraveling the symbolism, the reader truly exposes the role of not only Latina women but women of any background. Esperanza, a girl from a Mexican background living in Chicago, writes down what she witnesses while growing up. As a result of her sheltered upbringing, Esperanza hardly comprehends the actions that take place around her, but what she did understand she wrote in her journal. Cisneros used this technique of the point of view of a child, to her advantage by giving the readers enough information of what is taking place on Mango Street so that they can gather the pieces of the puzzle a get the big picture.
The House on Mango Street is filled with beautiful and relatable stories that foretell the development of the main character. In Valdes’ review, she makes a strong analysis of how Cisneros creates “human presence that transcends the time, place, and condition of the composition to create a literary metaphor for a woman coming of age” (55). Valdes explains how Cisneros creates a “metaphor” in which she express and examines her feelings and emotions in an elegant way. Valdez also shows that Cisneros creates a setting in which shows the reader how to become free in a lonely environment that many young women, especially those who are a minority, can relate to when they are
Gabriela Quintanilla Mrs. Allen A.P English 12 12 March 2014 The House on Mango Street Sandra Cisneros once said “'Hispanic' is English for a person of Latino origin who wants to be accepted by the white status quo. ’ Latino' is the word we have always used for ourselves.” In the novel I read, The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros, the main character, a twelve-year-old Chicana (Mexican-American girl), Esperanza, saw self-definition as a struggle, this was a major theme in the novel through Esperanza’s actions and the ones around her. Esperanza tries to find identity in herself as a woman as well as an artist throughout the novel through her encounters.
The author of The House on Mango Street and the producer of The Color Purple are able to integrate numerous important thematic ideas. Many of these ideas still apply to our current world, teaching various important lessons to many adolescents and adults. The House on Mango Street is a collection of vignettes written by Sandra Cisneros, a Mexican-American writer. The novel depicts many aspects of Sandra Cisneros’ life including racism, and sexism that she and the main character face. The novel revolves around Esperanza Cordero, a young Latina girl, who is growing up in Chicago as she faces the various struggles of living in America. The various vignettes reveal many experiences Esperanza has with reality and her navie responses to such harsh
In The House on Mango Street, Cisneroz agitates the theme of diversity through her use of characters and setting. Cisneroz paints a multitude of events that follow a young girl named Esperanza growing up in the diverse section of Chicago. She is dealing with searching for a release from the low expectations that the Latino communities often put women whether young or old are put against. Cisneroz often draws from her life growing up that she was able to base Esperanza's life experiences on and portray an accurate view on Latino societies today. Cisneroz used the chapter “Boys and Girls” and “Beautiful and cruel” to portray Esperanzas growth from a young curious girl to a wise woman. She came into her own personal awareness and her actions that she has to now be held accountable for.
What is shame? When you experience shame, do you let it ruin you? Do you grow from it? These choices discussed in The House on Mango Street. The author of The House on Mango Street is Sandra Cisneros. This novel was published by Arte Publico Press in 1984. The House On Mango Street fits into the genre prose, the sub genre fiction, and the category realistic fiction; its literary style is lyrical prose because it is like a poem. The literary conflict in the novel is Man versus Society because Esperanza, the protagonist, wants to escape and grow beyond her community. She is a young girl who lives in a bad neighborhood in the 1980’s; she has to decide whether or not to fall apart from her shame like all of the other girls in her neighborhood or
In The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros tells the story of a young girl named Esperanza living in Chicago. The story begins with Esperanza and her family moving into their new house on Mango Street. This house is made of crumbling red brick, and isn’t what Esperanza had hoped for when she envisioned a new house. As the story continues in a series of vignettes, a more complex theme begins to emerge. Cisneros suggests in a refection on her own experiences that being subjected to sexism and viewed in a sexual way is a negative influence. This becomes evident in the young girl's’ actions in “The House of Little Feet,” Marin’s actions in “Marin,” and Esperanza being forcefully kissed by her coworker in “The First
Sandra Cisneros reveals her feminist views through her novel The House on Mango Street. She does this by forcing the reader to see the protagonist as an alienated artist and by creating many strong and intelligent female characters who serve as the protagonist's inspiration.
In the novel, The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros describes the problems that Latino women face in a society that treats them as second class citizens. A society that is dominated by men, and a society that values women for what they look like, and not for what is on inside. In her Novel Cisneros wants us to envision the obstacles that Latino women must face everyday in order to be treated equally.