Esperanza and Nenny are sisters in the house on mango street who inherit certain traits together like laughter, but differ in opinion on becoming friends because Esperanza craves a friend her own age and Nenny has no one else to play with. Esperanza states Nenny cannot become her friend because,” Nenny is too young to be my friend. She's just my sister and that was not my fault. You don't pick your sisters, you just get them and sometimes they come like Nenny”. One reason Nenny strives to become friends with Esperanza is because she isn't allowed to play with the Vargas children because her mother believes she will end up like one of the children. The Vargas children are able to do whatever they want because their mother has given up. Nenny does not want to be lonely. Consequently, Nenny burdens Esperanza with …show more content…
Esperanza and Nenny do share traits, for instance, their laughter. Esperanza describes Nenny and her laughter as,”sudden and surprised like a pile of dishes breaking”.(#17) On the surface of this quote, Esperanza describes their laughter obnoxiously loud and out of unison. Below the surface of the quote, the quote underlies Esperanza and Nenny are alike and more in common than Esperanza thought she was with Nenny. Rachel and Lucy and Sally are friends of Esperanza but each relationship differs with availability because, on one hand, Sally’s restrictive husband will not allow friends at the house, while on the other hand Rachel and Lucy live across the street and can play whenever they want to. Rachel and Lucy’s close proximity between houses have initiated enjoyable experiences as Esperanza says,”Down, down Mango Street we go. Rachel, Lucy, me. Our new bicycle. Laughing the crooked ride back”. Sally, however, is lonely herself and has a husband who,” doesn't like her friends, so nobody gets to visit her unless he is working”.(#102) Sally explained to Esperanza,”
CeLeste also has a friend named Sandra who has always been there for her. There is a mean girl named Lively Carson who goes to there school and tries to steal Sandra from Celeste by bribing her with Sandra’s crush, Robbie Flan.(pg.47) Clueless Sandra goes for it. She leaves Celeste at a lunch table by herself and there two other friends Millie and Katy. In the end Sandra and Celeste aren’t really friends anymore. (pg.216)
It made me feel scared that Esperanza’s mother is not getting better. I could imagine how scared and upset that Esperanza felt. Her sick mother asks her to take out her grandmother’s blanket. This brings up all the bad things that had happened so far, her father’s death and the smoke of the fire and all the ups and downs that had been in her life so far. Her mother needed her grandmother and her mother got sicker and sicker. It is so sad and that her mom would be listless, crying and giving up. They aren’t going to have any income if her mother isn’t working and Esperanza is taking care of her. They won’t have enough money to pay for the medicine. This reminds me a little bit about Obama Care and I wonder if more people will be in this situation where they can’t afford health care.
The children also argue with their mother often. The children think that their mother, with no doubt, will be perfect. They idealize their mothers as angel who will save them from all their problems, which the mothers actually never do. The children get angry at their false hopes and realize that their mothers aren’t going to...
An authors style defines itself as the way in which the author expresses themselves throughout the piece of literature. They express themselves through their word choice, word order, rhythm, imagery, sentence structure, figurative language, and literary devices. Sandra Cisneros’, “The House on Mango Street”, is a short story encompassing the events and thoughts of an un-named child narrator as they describe their family’s living arrangement. Sandra uses a distinct type of style throughout her writing which fits the short story well. On the other hand, William Carlos Williams’, “The Use of Force”, is a short story about a doctor’s visit to an unusual patients home. The stories have their own distinctive style which is unique to each but, there
She treats the child like prey just as the three vampire women did when Dracula brought them a baby.
The children, Christina and Stella, believe that what the father did to their mother was "awful." Leaving the house not only affected the mother but affected them too, seeing as they were both so young. The father does not really understand that by divorcing their mother he did the same to them: "'When you're older, ...
The two girls became friends while they were in primary school, and they preferred the other's home life. Sula liked the "oppressive neatness"(29) while Nel "preferred Sula's wooly house"(29). They became inseparable, understanding the other's thoughts and actions, one completing the other. "They found relief in each other's personality"(53). Nel was always the calm one, in control, while Sula was uncontrollable. To save Nel from harassing boys, Sula once cut the tip of her finger off to scare them away, and when Sula accidentally threw a neighborhood boy into the water, Nel remained calm after they watched him drown.
wife. Instead of trying to free herself from society’s chains by killing herself, Sally more
It can be assumed that her mother has a mental disorder that prevented her from being able to take care of her
“Home is where the heart is.” In The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros develops this famous statement to depict what a “home” really represents. What is a home? Is it a house with four walls and a roof, the neighborhood of kids while growing up, or a unique Cleaver household where everything is perfect and no problems arise? According to Cisneros, we all have our own home with which we identify; however, we cannot always go back to the environment we once considered our dwelling place. The home, which is characterized by who we are, and determined by how we view ourselves, is what makes every individual unique. A home is a personality, a depiction of who we are inside and how we grow through our life experiences. In her personal, Cisneros depicts Esperanza Cordero’s coming-of-age through a series of vignettes about her family, neighborhood, and personalized dreams. Although the novel does not follow a traditional chronological pattern, a story emerges, nevertheless, of Esperanza’s search to discover the meaning of her life and her personal identity. The novel begins when the Cordero family moves into a new house, the first they have ever owned, on Mango Street in the Latino section of Chicago. Esperanza is disappointed by the “small and red” house “with tight steps in front and bricks crumbling in places” (5). It is not at all the dream-house her parents had always talked about, nor is it the house on a hill that Esperanza vows to one day own for herself. Despite its location in a rough neighborhood and difficult lifestyle, Mango Street is the place with which she identifies at this time in her life.
In the novel, The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros describes the problems that Latino women face in a society that treats them as second class citizens. A society that is dominated by men, and a society that values women for what they look like, and not for what is on inside. In her Novel Cisneros wants us to envision the obstacles that Latino women must face everyday in order to be treated equally.
In the book The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, the main character Esperanza compares herself to a group of four trees outside her house she never really liked. In the vignette she connects herself to the trees because they have skinny necks and pointy elbows just like her. A second way that Esperanza connects herself to the trees is by saying that they do not belong there, but are there anyway. Esperanza has always wanted to leave Mango Street and live in a house on a hill away from all the problems Mango Street has to offer. Esperanza is inspired by the strength of this sad group of trees “Their strength is secret. They send ferocious roots beneath the ground. They grow up and they grow down and grab the earth between their hairy toes and bite the sky with
Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Emile Zola’s Therese Raquin are both works with characters that possess maternal instinct. There is not a definite explanation for maternal instinct because it can be viewed differently. Although this is true, there is often a stereotype woman with the ‘right’ qualities of maternal instinct. This often articulates unrealistic images in people’s minds. Instinct means “an imposed set of values, imposed by the society” and the way they think a mother should naturally act by. Realistically, the instinct depends on the mother’s disposition, the way she wants to behave depends on her emotions, which cannot be articulated. Therefore, it is not possible to impose a definite set of values for how a mother should act for it varies from one mother to another.
Everyone has friends. Some are so alike that it is shocking. They seem to walk, talk and even eat the same. But others are so very different that it is an absolute wonder that they can even stand each other, let alone be friends. That is how it is in the friendship of Sandra and Nancy. They differ in everything from their views on cleaning, their views on fun and even in their views on religion.
...ave children, but the whole time he was the reason they could not have children. Instead of leaving well enough alone she says, “Now I know. So that is it. My husband is woman now and she giggles” (Iglesias, Mays, and Pierce155). Anowa prideful attitude has lead to the death of her husband, herself and the sorrow of her mother and father. She not only killed his manhood but caused him to commit suicide.