The House on Mango Street

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Summary: The Stories of Innocence Lost
Review: As you weave your way through the web of this book you will find many themes that all seem to be woven into one...and that one them is brutal loss of innocence. In the book Sandra Cisneros describes for us in poetic form the importance of ones childhood and that how in an instance it can all be taken away from us and all we are left with is our memories, whether they be good or bad. Sandra Cisneros has written this book with women in mind, but men will enjoy it too, in hopes that all those who read it will escape their own Mango Street or Royal Circle or wherever your childhood was spent and innocence lost.

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Summary: Coming across as a child.
Review: In her book, The House On Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros gives us a first hand look at her young life growing up. She has decided to get away from the typical novel approach to writing and tell her tale in a series of many small vignettes. She uses metaphors very easily, but too often, and it can get somewhat sickening. Otherwise, the stories are at times interesting, often familiar, but always delightful and humorous

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Summary: This moderatley interesting novel settles for boredom.
Review: The only reason this book is not a "1" is because of good grammar. Otherwise this pathetic novel was written to bore its reader to sleep at night. And let me say it works. I sleep like a baby now. In the future, Cisneros, you boring author, please try to be original and write something worth at least reading a page into. Shame on you!!

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Summary: Cisneros' mosaic story of cultural and social differences.
Review: Cisneros' style of writing shows her ability to influence and effect all her readers. She conveys clearly the harsh conditions that the Latin Americans face in a different society, and emphasized the malicious treatment towards the women in the the Latin American culture

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Summary: An exhilarating masterpiece of metaphors and similies.
Review: The book House on Mango Street, written by Sandra Cisneros, was a wonderful book. It was an easy to read book that used an abundance of symbols to represent the many barriers we face in life. The book flowed with the use of metaphors and similies. Sandra's imagination really blossomed in this book. She let her mind open large and wide so that she could produce the kind of symbolism that would be meaningful to our everyday life. I believe that everyone could match up an occurance they had in their lives to one of the wonderful chapters in this masterpiece

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Summary: House On Mango Street - Unique and Innovative
Review: The "House on Mango Street" was a very well written novel that I would recommend for others to read. Sandra Cisneros presented her novel in a very unique and imaginative way. Sandra dared to defy the critics with her distinctive format for the novel.
She had compiled her novel into different segments called "vignettes." Each vignette had told a different story for the reader to comprehend, yet in the end made up the life story of a young, Hispanic girl, Esperanza. Many people may think of these vignettes as "difficult to read through," yet I thought that it gave the book and interesting edge over other books. Throughout the book, I could actually feel how Esperanza felt from vignette to vignette. As each vignette progressed, I couldn't wait to read the next one. The book had many representations to it. I actually look at the book as a family of stories. Each story represents a member of the family, yet when tied in all together, the family is one. I am, for instance, very proud of my Hispanic heritage. Sandra Cisneros speaks of the many struggles of a young, Hispanic girl to belong not only into society, but also into her own family. As previously mentioned, I would recommend this book as a novel to read. Sandra Cisneros presents her novel in a new, innovative format that is easy to read, and thought-provoking as well.

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Summary: Title
Review: Just an obnoxious test... ignore this

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Summary: AAAAAHHHHHH!!!!! BORING CRAP
Review: This book is a complete nightmare. Sandra Cisneros gets a bunch of credit for her fantastic writting, when she really needs to take a trip back to 1st grade and learn to put quotation marks in front of sentences that somebody is saying. She needs to indent, and make her vignettes longer than the mostly 2 paragraph long ones the book beholds. I'm only reading this crappy book because I have to, and believe me, it is all a waste of time, and the 11 dollars I paid for it at Barnes & Noble.
Believe me, Sandra Cisneros is not the great writter she could be when she wrote this peace of s**t.

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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 new way of thinking
Review: This is a book, that is rarely seen now days. It is unique with it's figurative language, and is not the genre of litature you'd think it is. At first I thought it was pretty boring, as each vinette progresses you realise that this is not a big story, they are each individual expieriences of this girl, Esperanza. She is unique in the way she thinks, and they way she grows up. I feel like anyone (girl) can relate to her in a certain way. There are experiences that happen to her that make you scratch your head, and say "huh?" because the descriptions are so vague, but if you look into them, they aren't. People are used to saying that the water was 'crystal clear', but sometimes it isn't. Sometimes the water is a 'reflection'. If you are a person you likes books with a standard form (ie: setting, characters, story, climax end...) this isn't for you. If you are open to a new way of thinking, try it! :)