The House on Mango Street

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Summary: WHAT IS THESE PEOPLE'S PROBLEM?
Review: Please....If you analyze everything, you'll see that the chapter "Hairs" is describing everyone's personality. If you just base the time it takes to read a book on length, you are missing the point. Just because Sandra Cisneros doesn't spell out her meaning for some superficial, critical [.......]s doesn't mean she doesn't have a meaning. Try to read each vignette twice to get what she's saying--it's actually worth listening to!

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Summary: I can relate!
Review: While reading this book I made connections to other books and
movies. I connected the chapter " Rafaela Who Drinks Coconut & Papaya Juice on Tuesdays" to the movie Rapunzel's Magical Dreams Come True. I connected the chapter in the book to the movie because in the chapter it says, "Rafaela leans out the window and leans on her elbows and dreams her hair is like Rapunzels" and in the movie Rapunzel's Magical Dreams Come True, Rapunzel, the main character, lives in a tall castle where she leans out the window and has all of her hopes and dreams leaning on her elbows waiting for someone to change her life. I made another connection with the book Cleopatra to the chapter "Sally". There is a sentence that can relate to in the book Cleopatra. " Sally is a girl with eyes "like Egypt and nylons the color of smoke." As soon as I read that passage I right away thought of Cleopatra. I was able to visualize Sally's eyes. By reading this passage I
was able to give the author great credits for using Similes and Sensory Details.
While reading this book I remembered the essay that we read as a
class called "Homeless." At some point in the story there was talk about having a family picture and in the essay " Homeless" the lady has no one except for a picture and the memories of her home.
One example that I connected in this book was in the chapter
"Sally." The connection that I made was how I always change my outfits. When I'm home and I'm getting ready for school I wear the clothes that I picked out for school but when I leave home and get to school I change my outfit because I don't like the way I look. In the chapter, "Sally," she does the same thing. I think that you should read this because maybe you can have connections to the characters in the story just like me. I have a favorite part in this book. It is the chapter, "My Name." "My Name" is my favorite chapter because in that chapter I had made several connections to Esperanza. One of the major connections that I made was how we both have the same middle name as our great-grandmothers.
I think people like me should read this book because it is fun and exciting to read. Also, because the book is full of short stories that are easy to read. I think that many people can relate to some of the problems that occur within any of the short stories. I think that many people can relate to this book because you may not go through these situations but you may know a friend or relative that these problems are happening to. I hope that I have persuaded you to read this book because it is really a good one.

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Summary: Review of The House on Mango Street
Review: The House on Mango Street is about a 14 year-old girl who is inexperienced in some things that she has to live with and learn about a grown up world. She is hearing all these things that she shouldn't be hearing. She is abused verbally and physically. It has Mexican Culture within the story, but not a lot. There is grand theft auto in this story too. Mostly it has every teenage problem in the book. All the characters are realistic. All through this book the Mango Street characters deal with real life problems. I could connect to the money problem because we used to have the money problem. We lived in a low class home and my parents were scraping up money. But now we are back on track and we live in a nice house so we made a good living. The book is well written because there were a lot of similes, personification, alliteration, metaphors, sensory details and repetition. This is the best book I have read in a long time because of all these things I said about the elements of writing.
This book is just like Don't You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey written by Margaret Peterson Haddix. Tish, who is the main character gets abused and was sexually harassed just like Esperanza. Both girls were at work when this happened. Both men could over-power them because they are stronger than both girls and take advantage of them. Esperanza was at work and this guy told her it was his birthday and asked if she would give him a kiss. Tish is a little different, the guy goes, "Can I take you out on a date?" She says no. Then he says, "I am going to get you fired." That is wrong. This book has a lot of detail and situations that a lot of kids face today.

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Summary: The House on Mango Street
Review: I didn't like The House on Mango Street. I think the way it's written is weird and it's boring. I thought I was going to like it by the way it sounded and by the way it looked but I didn't. I thought it would of been interesting but it was below my reading level
The House on Mango Street is about a girl who lives in a bad neighborhood and doesn't like her name. She wants to move to a "real" house away from Mango Street someday. The book tells about the people she meets and how she lives her life day to day. I think the only good part to this book was that it had a good moral at the very end.
I wouldn't reccomend this book to people over the age of 10 or 11. I think it's a good book for fourth or fifth graders. I think anyone over the age of 11 would find this book kind of boring.

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Summary: House on mango Street
Review: This is my first book review so if its not what u expected, my bad. Here it goes...
The book overall was a great book. An book that many people can relate to. Also a goos book for people who don't read a lot.

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Summary: School work
Review: The book was one the best book i 've ever read. A book that many people can relate to. Also i recommend this book to anyone who don't read much, it's a good book to start off with. Simple yet not easy.

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Summary: One Of the best books ever!
Review: Did you ever read a book that was so amazing and exciting that you could not put it down for at least one second?.Well I did "The House on mango street" by sandra cisneros was that book for me .It was a book of excitment & reality. The book was about a dis-satisficed little girl named Esperanza. Esperanza the main character of the novel was raised up by a very poor family. Nevertheless esperanza had many problems, which were gender issues, family issues, class issues , and most of all future issues. Esperanza was a young girl of many hopes and dreams. One dream she had was to one day grow out of her childhood memories and live in a weathly house with a nice husband and family. But in order to do that , she has to make something of herself and start to discovery the real world and it's opprunities. However, one remarkable thing about esperanza was that she didnt want to be charactrized like all her other female gendersin society , but she wanted to be characterized different. The reason she wanted to be characterized different is because some female genders carries themselves in a unmanned way that they shouldn't be , so she wanted to make herself different from all the other female genders which was breath taking in her situation.To sum it up i think this book should be rated a outstanding 5-stars for it's orginality.and i give sandra cisneros 2-thumbs up for her outstanding choice of writting.As a result i reccemend this but to all young youths and adults.

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Summary: Yeah, sort of
Review: As soon as I figured out how to pronounce "vignettes," I got well on my way delving into these little merriments. Cisneros does a phenomenal job of writing from the perspective of a child--I really couldn't believe it and often thought that she must have subcontracted kids out in a kind of child sweat-shop thing. Thank God for child labor laws.
Ok, so there's been a lot of talk about this book as a window into childhood in a predominantly Latino neighborhood, but really, it's just another tale about a white upper-middle class childhood experienced vicariously through Eminem and video games--in general, the book feels like it lacks direction, and the only take away question from the book is which state school Esperanza will go to for college. Cisneros makes a successful stroke at reinventing our grammar system, but don't get hung up on the frilly-dillies.

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Summary: Not exactly what I expected
Review: I really expected something more from House on Mango Street, especially after reading such glowing reviews.
It's a creative, inventive, courageous piece of writing, painting the coming of age of a young Latina in an ethnically mixed, lower class Chicago neighborhood. Each 'chapter,' some of which are only a few sentences in length, is a little vignette of a different aspect of Esperanza's life in her home, on the street, with relatives, at school, and in her wider neighborhood.
It's written in the child's voice, and maybe that's one of what I would call the books difficulties. A persistent child narrator's voice can become cloying, and it's necessarily limited by 'what the child can know.' I guess that's another way of saying the voice got a little tiresome after while.
But that very voice is also part of the book's strong appeal...
I dunno...You'll have to read it yourself, something that's easily done at one sitting.
House on Mango Street is a very interesting experiment, bound to be dissected and discussed in writing classes for a long time.

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Summary: The House on Mango Street
Review: This surprising debut by Sandra Cisneros grabs you by the hand, and takes you back to your own childhood full of friends, fears, and fights. Through all of these obstacles, we watch Esperanza's desperate attempts to find the meaning of her life using different friends to identify herself with. She does all this, only to come back to where she had started, back to feeling like a lost and lonely child.
Each distinct character brought to life on Mango Street displays a common struggle of Mexican Americans in that day as Esperanza observed them. She shares their feeling of being weighted down to that small, insignificant street, and is always thinking of ways to get away. She knows she has to make it out through, and with that same drive she resolves her inner struggles. Finally, Esperanza realizes that she must not forget her life on Mango Street, no matter how much she would like to.