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Summary: The House on Mango Street
Review: Una Obra que vale la pena leer! After reading many of the reviews I understand why Sandra dedicated this masterpiece to "las mujeres."........Is not confusing for us women all of the details she covers with the use of non-quoted details. One doesn't have to be Chicano to understand the "minority stage" we are put from the beginning when the doctor says, "It's a girl!" ....What is so difficult to understand? ...Sandra is writing poetry....just free poetry, without all the stipulated parameters most "borregos" follow. I am not an expert, but I could follow Esperanza's thoughts. Even though I am not Chicana or grew like her, I could transport myself to every corner she went in Mango street. Could it be because I am a woman?....That is it, right? ....Sandra Cisneros, I am very proud, like you, to be Hispanic, and over all, "una mujer libre de prejuicios!"
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Summary: Wonderful!
Review: This book may not be for everyone. It is not written with a traditional plot structure or with regard to conventional punctuation, but Cisneros has captured a time and place in a girl's life with poetic language that goes straight to your heart. There is truth here and a great deal of beauty. I loved this book. Think a little bit outside the box (as Cisneros did), and you may as well.
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Summary: horrible!
Review: This "novel" is the most horrible book I have ever read in my entire life. Not only does it have a lack of quotation marks and sense, he story was boring to top it all off! WHAT WAS THE AUTHOR THINKING (or ON)! Cisneros is getting all kinds of excellent reveiws and comments for writing like a 5 year old! People are saying that the horrifying grammar in the "novel" is used for emphasis of some sort, but I think Cisneros just can't speak English at all. Please do not waste your time by reading this book for pleasure. If you have to read it for school, your teacher must be crazy. Trust me, your teacher would have to be on something pretty strong to assign this for a report or project, and so would you if you read it the entire way through and ENJOYED it at that. Please, for the good of yourself, for the good of your friends and family, and for the good of our nation, DO NOT READ THIS BOOK! (Oh, and by the way: I would give this book no stars at all if I could.)
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Summary: wonderfull
Review: it shows a real but misanderstanding world within american culture. talking about her experiences,cisneros lead to a poetical orgasm in this almost biographical book. i recommend it for a reading pleasure moment.
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Summary: The House on Mango Street
Review: I read The House on Mango Street. It was alright. It was kind of boring and didn't keep my interest very well. It was somewhat confusing at times because the author does not use quotes and it is hard to tell when someone is talking or thinking. It was a bit interesting to see words being used that are in spanish because I knew what all of them meant. Again, I think this book was okay but I would not really recommend it.
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Summary: Drivel.
Review: To paraphrase Mozart's reaction to Salieri's opera in Amadeus, "I never knew that such a novel was possible." Numerous reviewers have praised Cisneros' unstinting use of extremely poor English as innovative, bold, revealing, illuminating, etcetera, ad nauseam, but none have offered any justification for this claim. Literature is the art of language; language is a medium that is capable of conveying an unimaginably vast range of emotion and thought. Now with regards to this novel, I obviously do not, as one reviewer (a teacher) below says, "get it." I am a student, a freshman in high school; I would like to have this explained to me. (I would also like to ask whether the students who do "get it" also "get," say, Shakespeare. If the two turn out to be mutually exclusive, I must prefer the latter.) I would like one positive reviewer to lucidly demonstrate how a lack of punctuation, a disregard for sentence structure, and an adolescent vocabulary aid in literary expression. I would also be interested in what said reviewer finds of interest in characters so devoid of any sympathetic characteristics. Don't any of them ever think about anything beyond their rather uninteresting little lives? How many of Sandra Cisneros' charming vignettes are necessary to drive home the full import of her profound theme: some people are poor? Certainly the life of poverty is a worthy topic for exploration in a novel, but unfortunately I would prefer that the author offer some original insight. My english teacher insists that every "nuance of phrase" is carefully chosen. The general poverty of the prose indicates that this is not the case. If you want to read stream-of-consciousness prose used to good effect, read something by Faulkner. Don't waste your time on this insipid and pretentious attempt. No doubt I will be reading much else chosen for political correctness over the semester.
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Summary: A politically saavy look into the Latino culture.
Review: Cisneros is a fantastic author who does not color her words or dwell in cliche. Her stories provide a look into the mind of a young Latina and the sturggles she faces against machismo, the American ideal of beauty, and life in general. It is not a "no-brainer," so don't anticipate an easy Stephen King type read. An excellent book for the thinker.
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Summary: I am a reader who is very asleep after reading this book!
Review: This book was the lamest piece literature I have ever read! Sandra must have wrote this book with putting people to sleep in mind. Its a very good bed time story I fell asleep after the first or second chapter! Please save your money and don't ever read this book!
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Summary: More or Less
Review: This book its the first book I read in English.Also it is important to me. About the book,for me its more or less because they dont have sequence.And my style is different. I like "Diary" or some things like that,"suspense" etc...But for my first book in English its so cool. Any way,I want know what happening after that. Will she change or not? This book is good for some people because they feel the same.I hope Esperanza changes her life but she has to do it for herself,not wait for somebody . So,dont wait to read this book maybe you feel the same as Esperanza. :)
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Summary: A little bit different
Review: Sandra Cisneros uses different ways to express her feelings.Those words were indirect,they need you to feel them, to think them deeply.I like the way she talks about herself.Also,she uses some scenery to show us her feelings. She wrote about those women's lives,especially those women who married.Esperanza,this character spends her whole life in the same place that she doesn't like.However, she learned too many things from other people, those who spend their lives waiting, waiting someone to change their lives.Although Esperanza's life never changes,she is free.She is different from others.That's how she is.Also,something I feel the same as Esperanza. I like this book anyway.I like the picture on the front cover because it show us something about women, the sad women. For me, I guess that Esperanza won't leave Mango Street.She belongs there,forever.
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