The House on Mango Street

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Summary: Good Book
Review: I had to read "The House on Mango Street" for English class. At the beginning, I thought that I might like it because it was only 100 pages with very short chapters. After I started to read it, I actually started to like it. I kept reading and reading. This was only about the fifth book that I actually liked, I don't really like to read. Part of the reason I liked the book was because the book was very realistic due to the great writing of Sandra Cisneros. I had to read the book and in the end it was one of the best books I have read. I recommend this book to every high school English class. Most kids will probably be like me and think that it won't be too bad because the book is so short, but hopefully they will read it and like it.

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Summary: Mango Street
Review: I was not a big fan of this book. The chapters where to short and the way Sandra Cisneros wrote was hard to read and hard to understand. This perticular story was very informative and had lots of details but a lot of what she was describing I had absolutely no intrest in, or what she was wrote didn't intrest me. I know she ment to write the book like she was a kid writing it, and for that reason it didn't work for me. It just made me like the book less. The book was not long or boring but I didn't like it because I couldn't relate to the book. The things that happened in the book don't happen in my life.

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Summary: The House On Mango Street...
Review: I read the Book "The House on Mango Street" recently for my English class. Before the book was given to us, however, my teacher gave us copies of book reviews to read and base opinions on. I knew then that I wouldn't like the book at all.

But, as the assignment was, I read through the book. I, personally, found it a sort of mental torture, as I don't prefere to read books about poverty, and racism, and the like. Even though I loathed the book, I continued, and finished it. At the end I had nothing positive to say, as I still hardly do, but I refused to be fast in my negative decision.

I made myself go back to the book, and look for positive things. It seemed to take me forever to figure out something that I liked about the book, something that I found excellent. Eventually I did find a thing or two, and when I did, I examined them before placing them here.

In fact, I found the writing style quite interesting, and well written. However, I only came to this conclusion after forcing myself to realize that this book was written as if a five year old had been given pen and paper. Then I also found that the vignette style of numerous short stories to form a larger tale was interesting, as I had never thought of doing so to make a book.

But, overall, I didn't like the book. Thus, the rating of two stars. I, myself, would not read this book again, even if I had to.

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Summary: A coming of age story.
Review: When I started the first chapter, I wasn't looking foward to the rest of the The House on Mango Street. The vignettes in the book to me were a bunch of disconnected stories strewn together in a haphazard sort of way. But as I read on, I realized they were interconnected into a beautiful tale about an admirable heroine named Esperanza. I really liked the whole theme of growing up. I was amazed at how Miss Cisneros could write from the viewpoint of a child. So many times when you read a novel about growing up, I feel the author doesn't get the full impact of the child's point of view. I especially liked the author's portrayal of the women and men who live on Mango Street. The women are dominated by men and are put into roles that have them "looking out the window with their chin in their hand waiting for their husbands to arrive home." Although it was a little hard to keep track of all the characters and their stories, I liked the book. It wasn't the best book I ever read but it wasn't the worst one either.

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Summary: The House that had love
Review: I was not a big fan of the book, but I did like some parts. The thing is that the book does not have a flow to it. The book just has short stories. This I did not like. It made me feel like I was a kid.

The book was choppy. The vignettes were not a good thing. The vignettes made the book seem boring. The book never really went in great detail about the year or how old she was in each of the vignettes. The book was good in some points. One is the stories did show the truth of the life in a poor neiborhood. It also showed the kind of lives and kinda personalties that happen in a poor neiborhood.

It also showed me how it was to grow up in a poor neiborhood.

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Summary: Not Until the End...
Review: At first, I really did not like this book. When my teacher explained that the chapters didn't necessarily go with the one before it, I thought it must not be very good. I didn't seem understand the jumble of stories. It wasn't an effective style of writing to catch my attention right away. I really think you must read it all the way through to understand the style. When I read the last couple of vignettes I really got into it. Esperanza seemed to grow up very quickly in the last couple of pages. I think I really became interested during the "Red Clowns" vignette. Esperanza became more of a real person to me, with more feelings and actions. The writing of the book was more grown-up. Up until then things were depicted in "the eyes of a child." It just seemed to blossom.

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Summary: The House on Mango Street review
Review: "The House on Mango Street" is not a book I would reccomend to anyone. The book has so many characters that it becomes hard to keep track of them. The book has no single plot. It is difficult to keep track of what's is going on. All of the different vigenettes have nothing to do with each other. If you really want to understand the book you need to keep a notebook next to you to keep track of everything. The main character, Esperanza, has so many thoughts in her head that it becomes hard to keep track of what she is thinking. I hope you take my advice and not pick up this book.

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Summary: Good Book
Review: When I first started reading this book it struck me as being a very up beat exciting book. It is very understanding for those readers that do not read in between the lines so well. It is a book that has to deal with a girl growing up in poverty and she lives in an hispanic portion of a big city. The only problem of this book is it is hard to keep track of all the characters the protagonist comes by and his/her relationship with that character. Other than that, it was a very easy going book. It felt that you read twenty pages in about ten minutes. That is great for the kids like myself, that don't read as much because I hate books that drag on. All and all, it was a good book and I would recommend it to a wide age group.

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Summary: My Review
Review: I thought that this book was not that great as all the reviews say. I think it was lacking much organization, and it is really complicated. It had very little flow in the storyline, and since it was based on a large number of vignettes, it didn't make a lot of sense to me. I'd say that if your looking for a good read, pick up a book by Crichton or Bakker,this book was a neat idea, but could've been better.

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Summary: Grammarians Unite!
Review: I just wanted to lend my voice to those complaining about the bad grammar in this book. I agree. The grammar is bad, so this must be a bad book. And while I'm on the subject, I thought I'd warn the rest of you not to read a few other books with bad grammar. Have any of you ever read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn? Well, if you haven't, don't, because the grammar is atrocious. The Sound and the Fury is also full of grammatical errors, as is The Color Purple. And James Joyce, in both Ulysses and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, fails to use quotation marks, which proves that he is a bad writer. What is it with these authors? They act like it's okay for a story to be narrated by a character, a character with a unique voice, a character who doesn't always use standard English. Don't they know that there's only one standard by which to judge a work of literature: that of grammatical correctness! I propose that we put together a petition and get all books with bad grammar banned from libraries. If you're willing to sign it, please let me know.