Impact Of The House On Mango Street By Sandra Cisneros

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

She like to write and write until the stories were like a collage. The house of Mango street was a huge impact in her life because as this book came out everyone started buying it and reading it. The book is a series of short stories, where Esperanza Cordero is the main character who grew up in Chicago with Chicanos and Puertoricans. Esperanza is determined to say goodbye to her latino neighborhood which she didnt like and wants to move away. She hopes to live a better life but she promised to go back for the ones she left behind. By the end of the book Esperanza finds a way to leave her house on mango street. This book quickly became poplular. Families, highschool students, and other people bought this book because it is appealing in the sense of hopefulness and confidence about the future. Many of the stories she writes are painful and sad, but never written without hope. Her characters determine to reach and dream of a better life. The house on mango street supported Sandra to grow as a writer. It is now important to her because she realized she had something special to share. She knew that the house on mango street would be read to many generations. Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago Illinois on December 20,