House On Mango Street Maturity

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The author, Sandra Cisneros is a great author with many achievements and awards for her beautiful writing in her lifetime. In the novel, House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, Esperanza is a girl with many problems and challenges that she must face, but overcomes these obstacles as she develops in the story making this a similar life story to yours. Cisneros proves that in order to find true identity and maturity, one must acknowledge and allow people into their life. Esperanza shows this by, conveying all of her negative feelings about herself and everything around her in the beginning of the story but changes to a girl who appreciates and loves everything in the end due to the development of her with the support of her friends, family, and community. Throughout the story, Esperanza began hating everything, then she developed into mature women with a sense of life and finally, in the end, she appreciates everything like her friends, family, and friends. …show more content…

For instance, Esperanza did not like her name or appreciate the new house she has. Esperanza states, “A real house. One I could point to. But this isn’t it. The house on Mango Street isn’t it.”(5). She also states that “I would like to baptize myself under a new name”(11). Esperanza is shown how she is being all selfish and unappreciative of the things around her. She does not appreciate what she has, her name, and her life and wants more and better things. Her naïve and young behavior led to this making her oblivious to the good life she

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