The House on Mango Street

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   linda-allen Teacher
   High School - 10th Grade

   Esperanza isn't longing for a particular kind of house. What she wants is a house she can call her own: "a house all my own—Only a house quiet as snow, a space for myself to go, clean as paper before the poem." She won't forget where she came from, though: "They will not know I have gone away to come back. For the ones I left behind. For the ones who cannot come out."

   The house on Mango Street is not that ideal house of which she dreams:

   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. Friends and neighbors will say, What happened to that Esperanza? Where did she go with all these books and paper? Why did she march so far away?

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