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The House on Mango Street
The House on Mango Street is not divided up by chapters but by vignettes. The fourth one is called "My Name," in which Esperanza explains how she feels about her Spanish name. She repeats different...
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In Chapter 4, "My Name," Esperanza says her name is "a muddy color" (10). This is an example of imagery, providing visual images or other sensory details to describe something. Another example of...
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Imagery has to do with phrases, references, or figurative language that uses one or more of the fives senses. The creation of imagery happens when an author uses the senses of sight, smell, taste,...
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Topic: Home "Home. Home. Home is a house in a paragraph, a pink house, pink as hollyhocks with lots of startled light. The man paints the walls of the apartment pink, but it's not the same, you...
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In The House on Mango Street, Lucy, Rachel, and Esperanza are gifted three pairs of high-heeled shoes by the mother of the little foot family. At first, they marvel over how long and lean their...
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Figurative language is when an author uses specific tools, or devices, to help readers understand the story or connect with characters on a deeper level. A few examples of figurative language...
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In the vignette entitled "My Name," Esperanza discusses the meaning of her name. Although the direct translation from Spanish to English is "hope," Esperanza says, "It means sadness, it means...
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In the last two vignettes of the book, Esperanza dreams of one day moving out of her house on Mango Street because she wants to own her own house and have a career. First, she talks about allowing...
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The very first vignette in the book is also titled "The House on Mango Street." In it, Esperanza explains that her family was living on the third floor of an apartment building on a street called...
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The women portrayed in The House on Mango Street put up with a lot from men; and it doesn't matter if it is a father, husband, or boyfriend, men are the dominant figures in their lives. Although...
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In "Papa Wakes up Tired in the Dark," a chapter in Sandra Cisneros's House on Mango Street, Papa is strangely sitting on Esperanza's bed one morning. He tells her that "Your abuelito [grandfather]...
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In "Bums in the Attic," Esperanza relates how her parents take her to look at large houses on hills on Sundays. She criticizes people who live in those houses because they know nothing of the...
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The strongest evidence that Marin is Hispanic is that she is from Puerto Rico and may return there. The opening lines of the vignette include, "Marin's boyfriend is in Puerto Rico. She shows us his...
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In Chapter One of Sandra Cisneros's House on Mango Street, the narrator, Esperanza, says that the family has moved into their own house but that the house is not the house of their dreams. There...
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She looked out the window her whole life, the way so many women sit their sadness on an elbow. I wonder if she made the best with what she got or was she sorry because she couldn't be all the...
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In The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisnerosdepicts the female bildungsroman genre differently than her predecessors such as Bronte, Browning, and Franklin. Published far more recently than the...
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The way Cisneros uses similes in The House on Mango Street helps to create concrete imagery that solidifies the image in the reader's brain. For example, in "Louie, His Cousin & His Other...
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The House on Mango Street is set in a lower-class neighborhood in Chicago. Esperanza's family have lived in multiple apartment complexes throughout Chicago. She remembers living on the third floor...
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One incident that occurs in the house is in the chapter entitled "Papa Who Wakes Up Tired in the Dark." Esperanza is awakened while it is still dark; her father is in her room, saying, "Your...
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Connotation has to do with the popular meaning of a word or concept. Tone refers to the author's attitude conveyed in the story. Since The House on Mango Street is told from Esperanza's...
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In the chapter "And Some More" of Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street, Esperanza and her sister Nenny are having a conversation with their neighbor girls, Rachel and Lucy. The conversation...
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Esperanza, Rachel, Lucy, and Nenny are hanging out together in "And Some More." They start out talking about different kinds of snow and move to talking about people's different names. Esperanza...
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Esperanza feels like she woke up one morning and all of a sudden had hips. When discussing this with her friends Rachel and Lucy, they tell her hips are good for holding babies while cooking and...
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In the vignette entitled "Four Skinny Trees," Esperanza compares herself to the trees on Mango Street. She says that the trees understand her because they are skinny like she is. These trees were...
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Esperanza and Marin both dream of living in a big house of their own. The difference between them, though, is Marin wants to get that big house by marrying a man who will buy her one. Esperanza...
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A vignette is a short story. Vignettes often are combined related groups of stories in book format. It differs from an anthology of short stories because of the connecting thread, and sometimes...
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Her main change is that of a sexual awakening. She starts the novel as a child, ignorant about sex and seemingly uninterested in boys. As she moves into her teen years, she begins to learn the...
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Chanclas are sandals, and in the vignette entitled "Chanclas," Esperanza does not have any nice ones for the baptism party held at Precious Blood Church. Her mother buys her a new pink dress, a new...
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Esperanza sees that Sire stares at her a lot on Mango Street. He has a girlfriend, so there's no reason for him to be looking at her. Her father says that the boy is a punk and her mother warns her...
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In The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, Esperanza's family is not only bound by blood; it is bound by hopes and dreams. The family hopes to own a nice house one day, not one that is "small...
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Esperanza's first job is obtained by her Aunt Lala at the Peter Pan Photo Finishers. The last paragraph of "The First Job" describes an "older Oriental man" who comes up to talk to her, offers her...
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Cathy is the first friend Esperanza meets when she moves to Mango Street. She tells Esperanza that she is related to the queen of France, which of course is a lie, and that her father will one day...
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The “dizzy finger” means that the diseases are not carefully choosing who they pick. This is an example of personification. Personification is a type of figurative language in which something...
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The key object in The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros is the small house of the title, which represents security and prosperity for the characters in the novel. Even though it is not the...
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Choosing the 5 most important plot points for the entire novel is going to differ from reader to reader. There might be some overlap, but it is likely never going to be 100% identical for every...
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"Four Skinny Trees," "Bums in the Attic," "Beautiful and Cruel," "A House of My Own," and "Mango says Goodbye Sometimes" are the main vignettes that focus on Esperanza's determination to be a...
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Throughout The House on Mango Street, the reader is aware of Sally's sexual promiscuity. At first Esperanza thinks her friend's worldliness about boys and sex is cool. Later Esperanza realizes...
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The House on Mango Street offers many different examples of women being denied equality and independence. One example of women being denied physical freedom is in Sally's narrative: Sally says...
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Interestingly, Esperanza's name is a noun derivative of the Spanish verb which means to hope. She herself explains her name: In English my name means hope. In Spanish it means too many letters....
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In many regards, Mango Street is an exploration of the collision between the promises and possibilities of the future and the pain- ridden reality in which we live. Esperanza speaks to this in...
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Esperanza manages to convince her mother to let her eat lunch at school by repeatedly nagging at her for a few days until she gives in. Initially her mother argues that it would create extra work...
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It is clear from this novella that the experience of growing up in the neighbourhood where Esperanza's house is based is very challenging. The poverty and want and experience of growing up in a...
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Esperanza and her family live on Mango Street and it is a poor neighborhood. Outsiders look at it as a kind of ghetto. Esperanza meets different people, some of whom share her desire to get out of...
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An excerpt from the eNotes character page:"...There is Esperanza's own family: her kind father who works two jobs and is absent most of the time, her mother who can speak two languages and sing...
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In terms of the American Dream, a key to a house can actually act as a very important symbol of the American Dream, as possession of your own property and own living space is something that is part...
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Marin sells Avon products and babysits to save up money while she waits to return to Puerto Rico to marry her boyfriend. Esperanza notes that Marin will be sent back to her mother. Esperanza...
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A setting in any writing includes both a time and place for where the action of the text takes place. A setting can be rather general or very specific. Settings can take place in the past, present,...
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In English my name means hope. In Spanish it means too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting. Esperanza is named after her great-grandmother who, like Esperanza was born in the...
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Below are two elements of Esperanza's physical environment: The House on Mango Street Of course this is a part of her physical environment! It's the title of the work. She feels shame for living...
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