Does Esperanza seem to have a close relationship with her brothers? What do you think are the factors influencing this? How do they affect our understanding of the relationships that Esperanza has with her family members? Chew on This Though Esperanza inherits an attitude of independence from her mother and paternal great-grandmother, her family's tendency to challenge traditional gender roles does not extend to the men in the family — Esperanza's brothers, in particular, seem to act within the bounds of traditional masculinity, and this prevents Esperanza from being close to them.
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This is her story in The House on Mango Street, Esperanza is a young Latina writer, inventing for herself who and what she will become. Esperanza did not have many friends, was shy, and very sensitive but her love to write and telling of stories has gotten her through days of struggle and confusion.
All of Esperanza's childhood is filled with sadness, crazed. The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros, is a simplistic yet emotionally moving piece of writing. The narrator is a young Latina girl who has found herself living in a house on Mango Street.
Not following a chronological order, the short vignettes give a sense of incomplete endings and a never ending story. Throughout the book Esperanza tries to understand the many different factors that influence her life and identity: in particular ethnicity and gender.
The House on Mango Street, a novella by Sandra Cisneros, revolves around the idea of a developing Latino girl facing the difficulties of transitioning to a young mature woman. Esperanza moves into a house on Mango Street, where she meets many diverse influential people as she attempts to discover her true identity and understanding of the world. She, Nenny, Lucy, and Rachel talk about getting hips, and Esperanza gets her first job, in a photo-developing store.
Her grandfather dies in Mexico, her Aunt Lupe dies in Chicago, and Esperanza goes to a fortune-teller who informs her that she will have a home in the heart. At a dance, her friend Marin meets a man who is later injured in a hit-and-run accident; Marin waits in the hospital while he dies. Esperanza describes two neighborhood adults whom she finds interesting: Edna's daughter Ruthie and a jukebox repairman named Earl.
She tells about a boy — Sire — who sometimes stares at her, and talks about her relationship to four trees growing from the sidewalk in front of her house. Then Esperanza describes two married women she knows — Mamacita , who is very fat, very homesick, and cannot speak English, and Rafaela, who is young and beautiful, and whose husband locks her in their apartment while he goes out to play dominoes with his friends.
Sally, who is about Esperanza's age, makes herself attractive to boys and young men but is mistreated by her father, who is afraid she will run away with some boy or young man. And Minerva who also writes poems , not much older than Esperanza, has two little children and a husband who leaves her sometimes but then comes back and beats her.
When she has a house, Esperanza says, it will be a big, fine one, and she will let "bums" stay upstairs in the attic. She has decided to be independent, like a man. Her mother tells her that she herself quit school because she was ashamed of her clothes. Sally's father beats her so badly that her mother allows her to come and stay with Esperanza's family, but he comes to get her, begs her to come home with him, and then beats her worse. Esperanza and Sally go to play in an overgrown and deserted garden, but Sally would rather hang out with the boys, and Esperanza embarrasses herself by trying to protect Sally, who doesn't want to be protected.
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