Stereotypes In The House On Mango Street

Stereotypes and Child labour. Then out of the blue a boy who likes clouds. Getting a first job and comforting father's. Then BAM talking about how some birth days are evil and a deathly sick aunt. An abused child and a young single mother. Then a dinner joke. All these things happen, in their little groups, to Esperanza during her time at Mango Street. That is why I believe that in The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, Esperanza’s story is an example of how life keeps going and things can happen one day and be forgotten the next.

The vignettes “There was an old woman who had so many children she didn’t know what to do”. “Alicia who sees mice” and “Darius and the Clouds” prove that life just keeps on going . The first vignette is about how If you are some way, everyone thinks something else, and in some cases it's true.The second vignettes topic is a girl who has to work almost every hour and is ignored by her father. The third is about how a kid who is usually trouble, actually is thoughtful and calm. Because the subjects of the vignettes are all different and come one after another,they prove that in Esperanza's world life just keeps going.

That something can happen one day and be forgotten the next is what the vignettes “First job” , “Papa who wakes up tired in the dark” and “Born Bad” prove.

First job is literally what happens, Esperanza gets her first job. In The second is when Esperanza's grandmother dies and she comforts and helps her father. But in “Born Bad” you learn that even Esperanza's mother believes that she is cursed, just because of her birthday and because one of her aunts got very sick. The themes of the vignettes are contrastive to each other. Thus proving my point that something can happen one day and then something else happens and you forget what happened

before.

Finally, in the vignettes “Sally”, “Minerva writes Poems” and “Bums in the attic” the theme that life keeps going and things can be forgotten easily.Firstly, in “Sally” there is a girl, called Sally, who is very popular with boys and wild in school but has an abusive father and must be very meek and obedient at home. In “Minerva writes Poems” There is a practically single mother of two who has an on-again-off-again boyfriend and writes poems. Lastly, in “Bums in the Attic”, Esperanza tells us of her family's longing and makes a little joke, one of the few throughout the whole book. So, I believe that something can happen one day and be forgotten the next because life just keeps on going whether you join in or not.