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Summary: The House on Mango Street review
Review: Many people have hard childhood's. It's hard to live in poverty, especially when you're a child. Like the book I am about to tell you about. This book, "The House on Mango Street", written by Sandra Cineros, is about an impoverished Latino family in Chicago. The young girl in the story, Esperanza, tells about her life on Mango Street, and the good and bad things that happened to her. She moved around a lot, she said she couldn't remember some places. When she first moved to Mango Street, she made friend quite easily. She made them by buying a bike for their friendship. The bad thing about that was that they move the next week. I think you shouldn't have to buy your friendship. Months went by and Esperanza wished that she had never moved to Mango Street. She wanted a house of her own to move into, so that no one could tell her what to do. People told Esperanza that she would never be able to leave Mango Street. She wanted to leave Mango Street and become a writer and live in her dream house. I think she should leave Mango Street for her own good. Even though Mango Street didn't make her life any easier, she learned to trust her friends as if they were family. As you read this book, try to read it from different point of views. Read it in Esperanza's perspective, and see if she relates to you or someone you know.
I hope you enjoy this book as much as i did.
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Summary: Too...Hard...too...Follow
Review: In this book of vignettes, Sandra Cisneros takes you through the poverty and troubles of growing up in a Hispanic-American section of Chicago. She will introduce you to the life of Esperanza. You will venture from her childhood and up until she becomes an adult. In The House on Mango Street, you will be confused throughout a lot of the book. You will have to reread parts of the book to understand what point Cisneros may be trying to get across. If you get this book, you might have to read the book two to three times to fully understand it. An example of a part you might get confused at is when Esperanza compares herself to a red balloon tied down. Another example is when Esperanza compares her family to four skinny trees. Where she is tied down by her roots. All in all, this book isn't for the simple minded. The main reason being is it will make you think! It would have been a more enjoyable book if it was not so hard to understand.
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Summary: The House on Mango Street
Review: If you get confused very easily this book, that was written by the country's leading Latino author, is not the book for you. As I read, I remained dazed and confused. It has its positive points, then there are others that don't even fit into a category. Throughout the book, Esperenza, the main character that is a young Spanish girl, goes through changes. She realizes throughout the book that note everything turns out like in your fantasies and dreams. The main setting is in a Latino neighborhood in Chicago, in a house with boarded windows on Mango Street. You start in the beginning where she's younger and pays a couple of girls to be her friends. Esperenza slowly learns the meaning of friendship and family. You watch her grow from thinking boys are nasty and having cooties to experiencing boys on a higher, more mature level. I feel that The House on Mango Street is outweighed by pointless vignettes. There is no climax or suspense in the story. The book doesn't really flow together because the scenes are ended with no explanation. On another aspect, though, it does teach and inform us in the Mexican-American culture. It also makes you aware on other problems around the world. The grammar and punctuation in this book is very bad. Sandra Cisneros, the author, has many run-ons, no quotation marks, and is full of fragments. The book is very realistic though, to not only Latino teens, but to all teens around the world.
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Summary: The House on Mango Street
Review: The House on Mango Street written by Sandra Cisneres in her younger days is a wonderful set of Vignettes. The book is a good guide for young girls on how to live. The book shows the challenges women and Mexican's have achieving there dreams.
The book is about a young girl named Esperanza who you can see turn from a girl
to a woman. She is stuck on Mango Street and is anchored down by her family and her gender. In the end, she does alright but she never forgets the small red house on that street she grew up on.
This book will always be on my bookshelf and should be on yours. The House on Mango Street is one of those books I can read over and every time find a new meaning to things. The book anchors me down to read it like Esperanza is anchored to her family. Overall it is a good book for all ages.
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Summary: The house on what?
Review: This book uses a different way of telling its story. This book uses vignettes. I have always read books with chapters, but this is the first time that I have ever read vignettes. The use of vignettes confused me and made it hard to read for me!
Esparanza is the main character in this book. She is a Hispanic chick that is growing up in a poor Hispanic culture.
I like "The House on Mango Street", but I love "The Lord of The Rings" (LOR). It has three books out. "The House on Mango Street" used vignettes, which made the book shorter. I think chapters in a book make the book longer.
I would strongly recommend this book to higher level readers that might understand the concept of the book quicker and faster than I would.
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Summary: Mango Street
Review: This thought-provoking series of vignettes follows a young Mexican-American girl, Esperanza, through a series of events that all come together to tell the story of her journey into young adulthood.
The vignettes tell the story of Esperanza's new experiences and how she is beginning to realize her place in her family and community. She finds that to escape the stereotypes of her culture, she will have to branch out and become her own person and possibly leave Mango Street.
The story of Esperanza'a life features wonderful plots and characters, but can be slightly repetitive and hard to follow at times.
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Summary: Growing up on Mango Street
Review: As if growing up isn't hard enough, Esperanza, also, struggles with feminism and poverty. She must, also, decide whether she wants to be different and try to make something of her life or just give up and take what society has given her. Through her many acquaintances we begin to see the undesirable life she is likely to have. Most of the women on her street are stuck cleaning the house, taking care of the family, and not doing what they want to do with their life. Esperanza's dream is to escape the fate that most of the women she knows have been given and to own a two-story house with regular stairs.
In The House on Mango Street Sandra Cisneros use a series of vignettes to touch our hearts with the story of a little Hispanic girl's life. As the story progresses, Esperanza becomes more and more in touch with the reality of "real" life. Issues she at first was oblivious to make her take some time to actually think about her life. Death, boys, and feminism are just a few of the obstacles Esperanza must learn to overcome.
I think that at first Esperanza is anxious to grow up. Then, she knows that she is not ready to deal with some of the things that come with growing older. At the same time, however, she wants to get away from the life she is currently living as fast as possible.
This book is great to read if you feel like you have been given the short end of the stick throughout your life. Even if you haven't, you'll still be able to relate to Esperanza because she goes through the same issues as all children do in life. It definitely helps you realize that if you want something bad enough you can't let anything stand in your way.
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Summary: The Inspiration of The House on Mango Street
Review: The House on Mango Street is a well-written book about a young girl dealing with, race, gender, poverty, getting older, and dreams. Sandra Cisnero's character, Esperanza pulls through a life in a run down town where everybody is held to, or tied down by something. She notices the people on her street don't seem to be very happy, from her mother, who could have been "someone", but wasn't to Sally who seems to do anything to get accepted. She doesn't want to grow up fast, but the older Esperanza gets the more she learns, and the more she realizes she wants away from just plain old Mango Street.
I think this book is an inspiration to all people who have dreams. It may be hard to follow at times because of the strange metaphors and vignettes that aren't linked, but you certainly can learn something from this book. I think it teaches you to believe in your dreams, and use your "anchors" which are the things that hold you down to guide you along the way to success.
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Summary: The House on Mango Street
Review: The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros, is a wonderful book on a young girls struggles with family, friendships, love, and just growing up on Mango Street. Cisneros wrote this book in many different vignettes instead of your usual chapters in a book. I think that this made the book more interesting because I had never seen anything like that before. The characters are actually different parts of many different people Cisneros has met in her lifetime. Since they are real characteristics from people I think that some people, especially young teenage girls, can really relate to certain parts of the book dealing with love, family, and friendship problems. The comparisons throughout the book are amazing to me. The one point in the book that tied everything together for me is when Esparanza, the main character, compared herself to a red balloon tied down to an anchor. Esparanza thinks of herself as an outsider who will be stuck on Mango Street for the rest of her life. A red balloon stands out which represents Mango Street how it keeps her there in place not letting her "float away."
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Summary: The House on Mango Street
Review: The House on Mango Street is a very deep and complicated book of vignettes. It is about a Mexican American girl growing up in the ghetto of Chicago. The girl, Esperanza, is faced with many different situations, each showing her maturity in unusual ways. As the book continues she runs from a man trying to kiss her, later the book shows her desire to be kissed by a boy she likes.
Sandra Cisneros is Mexican American herself, which helped her create realistic characters. She used excellent dialogue that keeps your interest, while sometimes confusing you.
The House on Mango Street is unique in its structure. The vignettes hop from completely different problems to completely different people leaving you feeling like you're trying to piece together a puzzle. One vignette is entitled "Alicia Who Sees Mice," and another is called "Bums in the Attic." After reading this book, I was left frustrated, because I couldn't seem to put the puzzle pieces together.
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