The House On Mango Street By Sandra Cisneros

The House On Mango Street is based on the house Sandra Cisneros lived in growing up. The actual house she lived in has been demolished years ago but the house across the street of the original house is said to be the mirror reflection it. This “mirror reflection” of The House On Mango Street is located in Chicago, where the book takes place. This fact aligns with the book “The House On Mmango Street” written by Sandra Cisneros because the house which is located on mango street is where Esperanza starts growing up seeing the reality on how hard it really is to get what you want. In The House on Mango Street Esperanza's moves into a house on Mango St. after living in several other houses. Esperanza’s new, and previous houses are not like the

house that she has always wished for. As Esperanza spends more time on Mango St. she learns that she is not the one who’s dreams or goals could never be reached or realized. Throughout the story The House On Mango Street, the author Sandra Cisneros retaliates the central idea that you can not always get what you want of wish for by using, ” But even so, it’s not the house we’d thought we’d get., “On the corner there is music from the bar, and Rafaela wishes she could go there and dance before she gets old.”, and “I could have been somebody, you know? My mother says and sighs.” cite these quotes fam

As a small girl Esperanza always wished in having her own pretty house.

She always had to move into a new house but they were all very ugly and not like the house she always wished for. In the story The House On Mango Street, the author writes,” But even so, it’s not the house we’d thought we’d get.” (pg4). This quote shows that Esperanza always dreamed of living in a really nice house but none of the house have been like she has dreamed for. By examining this evidence, the reader can see that you can not always get what you want. This quote shows, Esperanza always wanted a house, but every house she went to wasn’t like the one she always dreamed

of.

As much as someone could wish to do something, there might be someone, or something keeping us from doing what we want.

In the story The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros writes, “On the corner there is music from the bar, and Rafaela wishes she could go there and dance before she gets old.”(pg 79) This quote shows that Rafaela, as much as she wishes she can come out of her house, she doesn’t want to disobey her husband so she never come out even though she really wants. By examining this evidence it proves that the possible theme is not always getting what you want because here Rafaela wishes to be able to get out of the house, but she can not because she is too beautiful and her husband will not let her

out.

Esperanza's mom now regrets not studying, and wishes she could go back to fix her mistake. Sadly, she knows she can’t go back and do what she wishes to have been. In the story The House on Mango Street, the author writes, “I could have been somebody, you know? My mother says and sighs.” (pg90). This quote shows that not just Esperanza's mom wishes she could have kept on studying to be someone important but unfortunately she couldn’t follow what she wanted to do because she had left school because of an intelligent thing. By examining this evidence, the theme is represented by showing how Esperanza’s mother could have been somebody important, but she wasn’t able to be because that was her destiny.

The central idea for the story is you can’t always get what you wish for. Clearly, the author Sandra Cisneros reveals that central idea throughout The House On Mango Street. As i mentioned “But even so, it’s not the house we’d thought we’d get.” (pg 4) it proved how Esperanza even though as much as her ultimate dream was to have a nice house of her own it never came true. A second quote i stated was, “On the corner there is music from the bar, and Rafaela wishes she could go there and dance before she gets old.”(pg 79). This proved that also another character in the story was denied the simple wish she had. One of the last quotes i input was, “I could have been somebody, you know? My mother says and sighs.” (pg90) and this also proved that you can’t get what you want because it not possible to actually go back in time with a time machine to make what you wanted come true. Many could relate in always wishing for something so bad but never getting it. Maybe someone’s wish could be something they’ve wished for so long or something they really need but sometimes it’s just not possible to get what you want. However we should all learn that sometimes we might not get all we want for a reason so a tip would be to learn to live happily with what you have.