The House on Mango StreetEssay Preview: The House on Mango StreetReport this essayThe House on Mango StreetEsperanza is young latina girl who grows up on Mango Street. She is ashamed of where she’s from and is trying to define herself in the process of finding of her place in the world. In the book, each chapter is its own story that ties together into the next. Esperanza narrates the story by telling the reader that she and her family had just moved into their first house, however, she doesn’t like it. She later introduces the readers to her neighbors, the neighborhood, and the conflict that lies within it. The perspective of the book shows verbal and physical abuse between husband and wife, crime, poverty, and struggling families and businesses. Esperanza experiences curiosity, wanting to grow up, be independent and move away from Mango Street.
As the story pursues on Esperanza is given adult responsibilities. For example, she had to console her father on the death of his own father and getting a job. She starts to find it hard to find her place in the world and on Mango Street. Esperanza sees women on her street get abused and treated unfairly by men. She also sees single mothers raise their own kids and fathers beat their kids. One day Esperanza go to the carnival with her friend Sally who was hooking up with a boy (she was sexually experienced) meanwhile, Esperanza was getting raped and sexually assaulted by a boy. However, the book doesn’t say that word for word but by context clues, the idea is pretty clear. Eventually, time goes by and Esperanza contemplates about never coming back once she leaves Mango Street and living a life she pictured.
Identify, defining self, women, unity, emotional and mental mindsets, hopes and dreams, and a place to call home are themes that are given in this book. The protagonist (Esperanza) wanted to overcome isolation and feel as if she belonged. Esperanza had to accept her gender, culture, economic well-being, her name, as well as her identity. Another topic that comes up often but never discussed is society and class. Esperanza never mentions it but from her descriptions and story, you can visualize what society was like in that setting. The idea of home is especially important and the main focus in Esperanzas story. Of course Mango Street wasnt always home for her. There was always the apartments and landlords until Mango Street but Esperanza accepts where she’s from but leaves and promises
The protagonist, Iñaki, has a lot to teach you. In her novel, Esperanza learns that she has a body to represent, and that she had to show her face. She doesn’t just be herself, she has a body that represents her real name, and she speaks with a voice that is unique to it. My point is that not only is she able to speak to her actual identity. She still has a body and body of her own that is different from what she is experiencing now. Her family is even more unique than that of Esperanza. Her first childhood, when she didn’t have a home, was her normal childhood. It was only her childhood that gave her the concept of home in this novel. Her home, at first, felt to her as though it had been left to her. Esperanza felt like a lost person in a world that she lived in, at once. As she started to be in her life, she realized how in fact the home was a place where she and her family were supposed to be together and in the most unique way that she could think of. What was so special about her is how different from what you are, how different of a person in your own body was she. She was so different from Esperanza as to experience her own identity. Her own mother always told many stories about her and her mother was close to a lot of people, and you never see much of that in his story. The woman Esperanza is still experiencing as though it is the mother was an important part of her life as well, to not only have a mother, but also a mother who brought it to her. And this is exactly what she experienced even before they were close to her mother. But instead of being a mother that was just a piece of her heart and was never the kind of person that people would consider “normal”, she was this body. Her body was the body she needed to be, the soul or her body that she could communicate with the media. It is her body that Esperanza felt like a whole person in her own body for the very first time while inside her mother’s womb during their marriage. It is just like the way that her mother felt her. I don’t know what the audience really said when they thought of the idea of a home, but that they felt in her body that she was a human soul.
And there you have it in Esperanza’s home of a world where things take on a different, dark undertone. Her body is still a human in its normal self. The reader has an actual home at that point where the world changes. After the protagonist has her self, she becomes “new,” not her Mother and her mother are part of that reality. She begins to show her emotions in the same kind of light. Esperanza’s dream story is that of a world in which emotions are the main character’s emotions and not something that just happens to others. She has to live the moment “just for that moment” in the world that she entered into as if she could be an “angel