House On Mango Street Loss

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Jacob Ferreira Prof. Cervantes English 1A 01 March 2024. Loss shaped Esperanza into who she is, giving her her identity play on The Novella On Mango Street. Many factors come into play when deciding what to read these days. With a plethora of titles, from love stories with enigmatic characters to following the life of a developing teen in her struggles through life, we have quite the selection to choose from, lets take a look through the pages of the latter. The House on Mango Street is a critically acclaimed “Novella” written by the widely considered most famous Chicana writer of today, consisting of elaborate vignettes which allow quick glances into Esperanza Cordero’s thoughts and emotions as a growing teen in impoverished Chicago. Esperanza, …show more content…

The way Esperanza details the house, we can get a feel of how grim and defeated she feels by describing to us how the paint is peeling and the rooms are cramped. The major takeaway from this part of the story is that Esperanza subliminally now feels cramped or confined as to what her possibilities in life are, not just in her house. Through the eyes of multiple women who live in the same vicinity as Esperanza, we get a glimpse of the future Esperanza may face, which leaves her even more confused. Cisneros gives insight to how women end up, “she had lots of job offers when she was young, but she never took them. She got married instead, and moved away to a pretty house outside the city.” (69). This quote ultimately left Esperanza wondering how she was going to end up when all she wanted was to leave and get away from Mango St. Yet someone who already has decided to spend time away from her husband and her home to fill her days out on Mango St. We get a better understanding from Author Sultana as she spoke with Cisneros on the matter “Esperanza is one such “fierce woman,” full of optimism but conscious of the limitations that the male-constructed society places around her and other women. In her continuous struggle to construct a new space and open up possibilities for herself, she speaks up for the confined women attempting to find routes to freedom. …show more content…

Perez of Buffalo State College helps us realize what a house in the instance of The House On Mango Street means for this demographic with the analysis, “For a young, poor, non-white, wo­man to try and demand a space where she belongs outside of patriarchal, racist, and classist culture requires radically rethinking and restructuring what home and belonging mean. Reading the houses on Mango Street critically allows us to begin to envision this difference, as the "real" space of the novel constantly clashes with the imagined space away from it, and the collision reveals the foundational violence of our national

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