The House on Mango Street

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Summary: The House on Mango Street
Review: I think that The House on Mango Street was an okay book, but the chapters were too short. Every other page was a new chapter, and the story didn't flow. You never really get to know the characters because the story is so broken up. It is an imaginative book, with lots of color. Each chapter is almost like a short story on its own. The story skips, too. One chapter is about one thing, then a chapter about something totaly different, and then back to the original idea. The story almost sounds like an edited diary. Dialogue is mixed up, so in one chapter, a conversasion between three people happens. It can get a little confusing. All in all, it is a mediocre book. I probably wouldn't recomend it to anyone, though.

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Summary: Don't ever read this book!
Review: I thought the book was ridiclous and uneventful. All it was was a bunch of random memories that really made no sense. I could have written a book about my childhood memeories that could have been much better. The characters don't change during the course of the story, but that's probably because it had NO PLOT. I had to read this book for my Junior English class and hated every moment of it. I am a avid book reader and usually like most books but this book I could not stand. You don't feel for the characters at all because she never really explains the characters. The chapters made no sense and skipped around too much. It was hard to tell just how old she was. Some of the events in the book were to far fetched for anyone to believe. Nothing in the book went together. She would say that this character is dead or had moved but then would talk about them in the next chapter. I really see no need for this book at all. If you needed a book that described peoples personal and dramatic expereinces, then there are PLENTY that are out there that are way better. Overall I thought that this book was a complete waste of valuable and precious time!

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Summary: "No Sir, I Didn't Like It....."
Review: "The House On Mango Street", in my opinion, is not one of the highest rated books on my list. Cisneros did give us a good sub-story filled with a deeper meaning to the world around the main character Esperanza, but the theme itself, and the main story taking place, were quite poor to me. In some ways, I do not think this book appeals to the style of books that I enjoy, such as Anne Rice, or Piers Anthony, filled with a deeper writing and passages the role off your tongue like an ongoing poem of sweet music lined with sadness. For big "Fantasy-only" fans such as myself, I would not recommend this book at all.

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Summary: Vignettes, Hignettes
Review: I, Jonna Lee Hooka, have read the book The House on Mango Street. Personally, I believe this book to be an OK book, but it also has its meaningless parts. I believe that many of the first couple of vignettes were really stupid and shallow. Even though I believe they were very shallow, I can guarantee you that the vignettes were really in depth. In the vignette "Hairs" the narrator explains the different types of hair that her family memebers have. She ends the vignette by explaining how much she loves her mother's hair. She doesn't say "I love my mother's hair and I find refuge with my mother." You have to look beneath the words and realize that the narrator is explaining how much her mother's hair stands for. There is so much symbolism in this story, which makes it an good book. The last couple of vignettes are the best. I'll admit it, some made me cry. They are a true telling of how the narrator sees what is happening around her. The experiences the narrator has in The House on Mango Street are real, and are worth reading about. The descriptions the narrator uses about her life when she's growing up are full of similes and metaphors. They are also very true. I personally don't believe this is suppose to be a book to make you cry, but it is a life long lesson to teach you to not give up, and to not deny who you really are. I'd buy the book, maybe if it was two dollars. Nine bucks is kinda steep, but then again I am a bargain shopper. You should see these really cute jeans I got from Value City for only eight dollars.

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Summary: "The House on Mango Street"- a part of the real world
Review: "The House on Mango Street" is a book that deals with very complex issues, such as racism, sexism, and povery. The use of symbolism in this book is very obious and very apparant, such as the young narrator's name is Esperanza, meaning hope. I believe that one idea that makes this book interesting is that it is told through the eyes of a child. The world seems like a different place through a child's eyes, because only they can see the true cruelty of the world. Esperanza tells of a longing desire to belong, not only in her world of poverty, but to someday belong to a better world where she can feed the hungry and give shelter to the homeless. Esperanza dares to dream beyond what others think that she can do, and this is partially why she is such an interesting character to listen to. Although she is just a child, she somewhat undestands the complexities of the underpriveliged world in which she has been fated to live in. Although "The House on Mango Street" is not what I would consider to be a great book, I think that Sandra Cisneros really did show people of an upper class world what it is to be a child growing up in poverty. Many people are blind to what is really going on in the world because it does not affect them, but I know that "The House on Mango Street" further helped me to see the awful life that many people are forced to live.

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Summary: Mango Street-Unique, Real, and (in the end) Sad.
Review: I had to read "The House on Mango Street" for my Accelerated Fiction class. I think that it is a literary masterpiece. Cisneros captured the thoughts of a young girl wonderfully. The emotional, mental, and physical changes of the narrator (Esperanza) are described in such detail that it is hard to remember that you are actually reading a fictional story. I loved the story... up to the last ten vignettes. I had never read a story anything like "Mango Street". It was a unique experience to read such a book. Oh, but the last ten vignettes, they were so much less enjoyable. The quality of the book is still the same, but the narrator is growing up and is no longer naive. She realizes how terrible the conditions she really lives in are and she wants to escape so badly. I found the last ten vignettes so sad and so heart- breaking I really didn't think I could finish the book. That's what I thought about "The House on Mango Street". It's a wonderful and unique book. Just don't read past vignette 34 unless you've got some tissues handy.

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Summary: A review through the eyes of me.
Review: I am a high school student, and an assignment I had was to read "The House on Mango Street". Our teacher had given us some print outs of reviews of this book. The reviews she gave us all had just about the same story: The author of the review wasn't looking foward to reading it, but after reading it, he/she had thouroughly enjoyed it. That got my hopes up for the book. I thought that maybe since the reviewers had enjoyed it, that maybe I could too. I am not much of a book reader, so maybe that's why I didn't enjoy it as much as I had expected. I do agree that the chapters were short and easy to read, but at some points I just couldn't follow along. There were a lot of different characters in the book, and since the chapters didn't go together in anyway, it got quite confusing. I think that if I would have gotten to read the book on my own time, and without all the worksheets, I would have been more satisfied.

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Summary: The House On Mango Street
Review: Sandra Cisneros wrote this book beautifully. She put a lot of thought and care in her writing, and I think that this book shows an example of this. I like the way that she wrote the book as if a young child was writing it, though it was hard to understand, it was very affective in the reading. I love all of the different characters that she put into the story. She uses major discription in her writings, and I like how she does it. Her storys just seem to flow together, and sound very interesting. I read the first vignet of the book, and I was already attached, as if I couldn't stop reading it. My favorite vignet out of all of them was "My Name". This part of the book not only told about Esperanza's name, but it also said what kind of person she was, and how she really felt about her name. This vignet defined her character and greatly brought more interest to the book. Esperanza is Sandra Cisneros in a way because they both do what they like, and don't let anyone else choose or decide or anything for them. This book was excellent in many ways and I encourage you to read it too.

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Summary: The House on Mango Steet
Review: I didn't like this book to much because it was very hard to read and understand. Sandra Cisneros tried to write this book through the eyes of a child and she wrote how a child would write. Which is very hard to read and understand. In the chapter Darius in the clouds there is two people talking back and forth about the clouds and it is very hard to follow who is talking Nenny is giving them names of people she knows and rachel is telling what the clouds really are. They talk back and forth interupting one another and this is very hard to understand who is talking. This is just one of the examples of why this book is hard to understand. I think this book would of been alot better if Sandra Cisneros would of written this with correct grammar.

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Summary: I Like-Liked it
Review: I had to read "The House on Mango Street" for an English class, and I wasn't too keen on it at first. I wanted a book I could relate to, and in the beginning, it didn't seem like I could. But after more vignettes were assigned, I liked it more and more, understanding and relating to the main character Esperanza. I like-liked it ; It was good, but it wasn't my favorite book ever. I'd definitely recommend it to an English class to read. The kids can't complain too much, since the chapters are very short and the book is about 100 pages total. Maybe more students will be interested in the vivid writing of Sandra Cisneros as I was.