Struggles of Adolescent Mexican Girls as Shown in "The House on Mango Street"

The house at Mango Street of Sandra Cisneros depicts the struggle of a young Mexican woman. The story is about a girl named Esperanza trying to find out who she is. Esperanza dreams of an "ideal" house. Through the eyes of Esperanza, the ideal family is "... the house is surrounded by trees and it will be white with white garden and grass surrounded ..." (Cisneros 4). When her family moved into a new house, she was disappointed in the house she saw. The house is small and very old, she states the house as follows. "Bricks are collapsed by location, the main entrance is very inflated, you have to work hard to get in."

"House on Mango Street" made us a reader and spent a while (about a year) in the life of Esperanza, but a Mexican-American girl moved to the mango street house at the beginning of the novel. . Novels were told through a series of episodes, but from the beginning we knew that Esperanza did not intend to stay on Mango Street for the rest of my life. Throughout the year, Esperanza matures spiritually, sexually, and emotionally. Some of the novels point out the fact that we are starting to understand her growing butt, making friends, developing crushing, and starting to realize writing as a means of escape There was a case of. We read about the death of her grandfather (Abuelito), how to look at her name, and beaten after being friends with Sally.

In a series of episodes, House of Mango Street spent one year on the lifetime of Esperanza, about 12 years old at the beginning of the novel, Chicana (Mexican American girl). In that year, she and her family moved to the mango street house. This house has greatly improved the former apartment of this family, the first house the parents actually have. But this house is aging so it is not what Esperanza dreamed about. The house is located in the heart of the crowded Latin community in Chicago, where many of the poor areas of the city are apartheid. As Esperanza did not keep privacy, I decided to leave Mango Street one day and have my own house.

Esperanza grew up in the Latin region of Chicago. She was ashamed of her family's unstable house on Mango street. She was ashamed of her name. As Esperanza grew from a girl to a young woman among the 43 short stories that make up the series, she gradually formed her dream of having one body and emotion in all his own houses. Through the eyes of Esperanza, Sisneros depicts superior and ugly but always colorful people elaborately and deftly living in Mango street, and teaches young Esperanza, not just a young girl. You may want to know if you need to know about life. Esperanza is painfully talking about his experience, adventure and tragedy of neighbors and friends. After all, when Esperanza reveals her innocence in the process of the novel, the dream of having her own house is the real possibility of her future.