Essays on The House on Mango Street

In Sandra Cisneros’ work The House on Mango Street, young Esperanza must face the trials and tribulations that accompany growing up. This daunting task is made all the more difficult by society’s views of her race and gender. As a teenage Latina girl living on...

The House on Mango Street is a story told through the observations of Esperanza, a girl of Latino heritage, as she views the world around her. Esperanza interprets the world she sees around her on Mango Street while paying special attention to the women she...

In Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street, the narrator, Esperanza, recounts brief incidents and memories that shape who she becomes as she grows from a child into a young woman. From the beginning, her hope for the future is represented through her desire to...

Cisnero’s acclaimed work The House on Mango Street explores a variety of themes in her photographic stories which capture everything from the seemingly banal triumphs of a small child to the tragedies suffered at the hands of cultural and social prescripts and finally to the...

According to the National Mental Health Information Center, girls are three times more likely than boys to develop body-image problems in their adolescence. From the advertisements on television to the constant glorification of feminine beauty by the media, adolescent women are being peer-pressured into desperately...

“One day I will say goodbye to Mango. I am too strong for her to keep me here forever. One day I will go away . . . They will not know I have gone away to come back. For the ones I left behind....

Having a Latinx American identity is an incredibly complex experience that tens of millions of Americans all share. A combination of African, European, and Native heritages have melded into a unique Latinx culture, and being Latinx in America often means straddling the Latinx culture of...

The House on Mango Street is a captivating, yet simplistic read, but also a very deep and complex read. This book does not flow regularly like most books, instead it has short, choppy chapters that can seem very unconnected. Overall, The House on Mango Street...

Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street highlights a number of gender disparities both in the home environment and workplace for women in the 60s and 70s. From the very beginning of the book, Esperanza realizes that men and women live in “separate worlds,” and...

Machismo is the belief that some men have about men being superior than women. This was very common between the 60’s and 70’s in Mexico, and for Mexicans living in certain parts of the United States. In the novel called “House of Mango Street” a...

The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros, was first published in 1984 by “Arte Publico Press”. This is the first novel of the already mentioned author, Sandra Cisneros, which follows the everyday struggles of a young Latino girl called Esperanza Cordero. Besides the everyday...

“The House on Mango Street” is so fascinating, engrossing and captivating that, despite chapters having barely 3 pages, we learn so much about the hopes, about the dreams but also about the fears of Esperanza, a young girl living in Chicago and longing for a...

Throughout the quarter, we have witnessed the power of expressing culture through symbolism. Specifically, referring to the “Latino Language Communities” in Chicago where we learned by way of readings, lively class discussions, and a multitude of excursions. With the examples of symbolism we have encountered,...

“How can you be inspired if you do not surround yourself with the things that inspire you?” stated E.A. Bucchianeri. To live a fulfilling life it is necessary to be surrounded by a positive and safe environment that allows an individual to grow and mature...

Could you imagine sharing a bedroom with multiple people, constantly moving from house to house with more people living with you in the next. Or even being without a house all together? In the House On Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros you would get an...

Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street is an illustration of the problems faced by Latin women in a culture laden with racism, prejudice, and discrimination. Society as depicted in the book is being dominated by men where women are generally praised for their physical...

What influences a person’s identity? Is it their religion, home, parents, their neighborhood? When do they get one? When they learn right from wrong? Are they born with it? Everybody has one but it’s different from each other. A person’s identity is their own. No...

  Sandra Cisneros, a Latina American novelist who wrote The House on Mango Street, tells the story of a young Chicana (a Mexican American girl) growing up in Chicago. The short stories in the novel are told in the youthful voice of a fictional character, Esperanza.  Like Esperanza, the main character in The House on...

The House on Mango Street is written by the Mexican American writer Sandra Cisneros which is a Very interesting novel. The center character of the novel is a twelve years old girl, Esperanza. She lives in the house on Mango Street Which is one of poor areas of Chicago a lot of immigrants are present there, but she is unhappy with...

In Sandra Cisneros` “The House on Mango Street” and Ernest Hemingway`s “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place’’, the authors display their feelings towards the setting in strikingly similar ways. In Cisneros` short story, the narrator, Esperanza, discusses the many places her family has lived in her lifetime....

The House on Mango Street shows a year in the life of Esperanza, the main character, and how she grows as a person. One of the genres Sandra Cisneros, the author, writes in is called Bildungsroman. Throughout this story, the reader can experience how gender...

Because Sandra Cisneros writes from a child’s point of view in her novel, The House on Mango Street, her audience gets a glimpse of what life is like for a child struggling with her identity as a Latina girl; Esperanza is a child who hopes...

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, students who graduate from college are more likely to find success in life than those who dropout of high school. Sandra Cisneros communicates the importance of education in a coming of age novel, House on Mango Street. Cisneros...

Authors use the literary element of characterization to emphasize the perfections and flaws of human society. In his novel The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros creates colorful and dynamic characters that add great depth to his story. Of the major characters, Esperanza, greatly demonstrates...

The perception of the crucial and critical topic of sex held by the majority of adolescents, even in today’s progressive world, is alarmingly apocryphal. The world’s frantic attempts to preserve the beauty of childhood’s innocence and the alluring vision of passionate love has led inexperienced...

Sandra Cisneros attempts to reconstruct the traditionally patriarchal realm that is the house and negotiate a space for women. Her bilingual dedication “A las Mujeres/To the Women” recognizes her ethnicity as well as her gender, which immediately shapes the scope of her work. The title...

In Always Running, Luis Rodriguez reveals what it is like to be a male trapped in gang life, while Sandra Cisneros illustrates, in The House on Mango Street, the lives of females within the barrio and what they go through. Each author discusses the difficulties...

Both Clare, from Passing, by Nella Larson, and Esperanza, the protagonist of The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros, seek to find a figurative ‘home’ in society, a place where they are accepted by those around them and free to express themselves. However, both...

Education is an integral part of the identity formation process; it helps shape individuals and it often directs their lives after the educational process is over. The level and quality of education can determine one’s socioeconomic status and prospects; however, not everyone has equal access...

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat, and The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan all have one thing in common…food. Each novel from within the heart of their own history magnifies the important and culturally diverse association between...