The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

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The House on Mango Street Summary

The House on Mango Street, which appeared in 1983, is a linked collection of forty-four short tales that evoke the circumstances and conditions of a Hispanic American ghetto in Chicago. The narrative is seen through the eyes of Esperanza Cordero, an adolescent girl coming of age. These concise and poetic tales also offer snapshots of the roles of women in this society They uncover the dual forces that pull Esperanza to stay rooted in...

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The House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros - 1984

10,061 words, approx. 34 pages

The House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros - 1984 Introduction The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros resists classification, with reviewers and critics alike labeling it differently. At one hu... Read more

The House on Mango Street

3,966 words, approx. 14 pages

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago in 1954. Though she traveled often to Mexico City, she was raised primarily in Chicago barrios that "appeared like F... Read more

Sandra Cisneros Biographies (5)

Sandra Cisneros

4,844 words, approx. 17 pages

Drawing heavily upon her childhood experiences and ethnic heritage Sandra Cisneros (born 1954) creates characters who are distinctly Hispanic and often isolated from mainstream American culture by emp... Read more

Sandra Cisneros

6,754 words, approx. 23 pages

Sandra Cisneros burst onto the publishing scene with her 1983 work, The House on Mango Street, the warm and human story of a young Chicana who comes of age in a Chicago barrio, fighting obstacles of r... Read more

Sandra Cisneros

2,572 words, approx. 9 pages

Sandra Cisneros considers herself a poet and a short-story writer, although she has also authored articles, interviews, and book reviews concerning Chicano writers. She began writing at age ten, and s... Read more

Sandra Cisneros

3,741 words, approx. 13 pages

Sandra Cisneros, poet and short-story writer, is best known for The House on Mango Street (1983), a Chicana novel of initiation, which won the Before Columbus American Book Award in 1985. In this lyri... Read more

Sandra Cisneros

5,308 words, approx. 18 pages

With her fiction and poetry Sandra Cisneros creates poignant stories and brings an original twist to universal themes, notably love. Yet, as Jim Sagel in Publishers Weekly pointed out, "Cisneros knows... Read more

Essays & Analysis (32)

Critical Essay by Ellen McCracken

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Critical Essay by Maria Elena de Valdés

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Critical Essay by Thomas Matchie

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Critical Essay by Reuben Sánchez

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Separate Worlds

1,576 words, approx. 6 pages

"Boys and girls live in separate worlds" is a statement made by Esperanza, a girl in The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, who is learning that women and men have different expectations placed... Read more

Suffering and Assimilation

1,522 words, approx. 6 pages

One of the recurring themes that shows up in the literature written by African Americans and Mexican Americans seems to be the suffering of the past and present along with not much hope for the future... Read more

House on Mango Street: Facing Our Inner Demons

974 words, approx. 4 pages

There are many occasions in life where we have to face our inner demons. More often than not we learn to conquer them and overcome the situations as overwhelming as they may be. For others, particul... Read more

The Inherent Struggle between Independence and Dependence

1,247 words, approx. 5 pages

Often a child wishes that he or she was grown up and independent. An adolescent has even stronger desires to become independent; this is because an adolescent is on the brink of adulthood but not qui... Read more

"The House on Mango Street"

362 words, approx. 2 pages

Mainly, the characters in The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros, are static, except for the main character, Esperanza. Nenny, Lucy, and Rachel are characters considered static because they do... Read more

"The House on Mango Street" from a Marxist Perspective

1,694 words, approx. 6 pages

Through examinations and detailed analyzing of "Historical Materialism," Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were guided to the explication of Class Struggle. It originally consisted of three related ideas... Read more

Fighting for Women

733 words, approx. 3 pages

The women in the 1960's were not treated like sliced bread. They had very limited rights. Sandra Caseros, the author, wrote this book during the time the Women's Rights protests were going on. S... Read more

Dreams of the Lower Class

1,127 words, approx. 4 pages

In "Bums in the Attic," a chapter from her novel The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros discusses the differences between groups in which the upper class ignores anyone not belonging to the... Read more

We Are Where We Live

736 words, approx. 3 pages

Often individuals are forced to grow up too quickly because of their surroundings. The House on Mango Street, written by Sandra Cisneros, is an excellent example of how a society has the ability to d... Read more

The House on Mango Street: Symbols

430 words, approx. 2 pages

Esperanza and her family live on Mango Street, but Esperanza isn't too proud of the house they live in. In fact Esperanza is ashamed of everything, her name, hair, culture, the house, and the people a... Read more

House on Mango Street

421 words, approx. 2 pages

Throughout the book Esperanaza makes mention about the difference between a boys world, and the girls world in her town. Since Esperanza is telling the story we only get one opinion about the boys, a... Read more

House on Mango Street, A Review of Characters and Major Themes

1,550 words, approx. 6 pages

House On Mango Street House on Mango Street takes place during the middle 1950's in a poor section of Chicago. The majority of the neighborhood is Latin and they feel comfortable around their own ra... Read more

House on Mango Street: A Character Analysis of Esperanza

4,015 words, approx. 14 pages

The House On Mango Street The family in this book moved around a lot. There were six people living all together in the house and the parents were two of them. There old homes were memories to them.... Read more

The House on Mango Street: My Life in Comparison to Esperanza's

664 words, approx. 3 pages

When comparing my life to Esperanza's you could say our lifestyles differ in many ways. Our cultures and belief systems, family values, and the communities we live in are all very dissimilar. We are c... Read more

The House on Mango Street, Growing Up

897 words, approx. 3 pages

"I'm not a girl, not yet a woman," sang by Brittany Spears explains how many young women feel today. In the novel, The House on Mango Street, the girls that live there get confused about growing. Nobo... Read more

The House on Mango Street

709 words, approx. 3 pages

In life many people set goals for themselves. For some people it maybe a goal such as obtaining a high test grade and for others it maybe to one day own a race car. Everybody has a different outloo... Read more

House on Mango Street

955 words, approx. 4 pages

In Sandra Cisneros' series of short stories, The House on Mango Street, Esperanza, the narrator, witnesses many different situations in which women are victims of the dominating machismo in the Hispan... Read more

Friendship and Mango Street

457 words, approx. 2 pages

Have you ever had some type of friendship with someone? In house on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros they refer to friendship. I personally think friendship is very valuable. Ma and Sandra Cisneros ha... Read more

Commentary on "the House on Mango Street"

589 words, approx. 2 pages

In "The House on Mango Street," Sandra Cisneros tells the tale of a youthful, Hispanic girl, named Esperanza, living in a low-class society. The story is told through a number vignettes all pertaining... Read more

House on Mango Street

658 words, approx. 3 pages

In the book "The House on Mango Street" Esperanza is faced with the facts of life living in a lower class neighborhood with her family. The book "The House of Mango Street" is a journal for Esperanz... Read more

An Invisible Shield

1,223 words, approx. 5 pages

Every community has their own standards for the men, women and children. If a child were to grow up in a white dominant, high-class town like Poway, CA, they would be expected to complete high sc... Read more

The Not-so-sweet Mango Street

441 words, approx. 2 pages

In many parts of the world women are mistreated by men and are too afraid to fight back when they have a chance. In The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros there are similar situations. In the ... Read more

The Inspiration Voice of Sandra Cisneros

618 words, approx. 3 pages

Growing up as the only girl in a family of nine, Sandra Cisneros learned the hardships of life in a poverty-stricken family. Born on December 20th, 1954, Sandra Cisneros was the middle child in her ... Read more

House on Mango Street

638 words, approx. 3 pages

House on Mango Street is a book that is about the reading level of a second grader. It is a book that is easy to read, but to understand it. That is a whole other ballgame. In the novel the main ch... Read more

House on Mango Street Analyitical Essay

1,392 words, approx. 5 pages

In the book The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisernos the main character is Esperanza. She is a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Esperanza and her family move in to a small ... Read more

House on Mango Street

938 words, approx. 4 pages

We Are Where We Live Often individuals are forced to grow up too quickly because of their surroundings. The House on Mango Street, written by Sandra Cisneros, is an excellent example of how a society... Read more

Heritage and Sexuality in "The House on Mango Street"

620 words, approx. 3 pages

The House on Mango Street is an admirable novel written around the life of the author, Sandra Cisneros. Esperanza is a twelve year old girl who moved to the crowded, Latino neighborhood in Chicago, ... Read more

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The House on Mango Street

10,077 words, approx. 34 pages

The House on Mango Street Book Notes is a free study guide on The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. Browse the summary below:   Author Biography / Context of the Work   One-Page ... Read more

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