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The House on Mango Street is a coming-of-age novel by Mexican-American writer Sandra Cisneros, published in 1984.It deals with a young Latina girl, Esperanza Cordero, growing up in a Chicago ghetto full of Chicanos and Puerto Ricans.Esperanza is determined to “say goodbye” to her
impoverished Latino neighborhood.Not all readers may be able to identify with Esperanza's world in which everyone in the large family sleeps in one room, men prey on young girls, and husbands and fathers mistreat their children.Major themes include her quest for a better life and the importance of her promise to come back for “the ones I left behind.” The House on Mango Street is made up of vignettes that are not quite poems and not quite full stories.Esperanza narrates these vignettes in first-person present tense, focusing on her day-to-day activities but sometimes narrating sections that are just a series of observations.The vignettes can be as short as two or three paragraphs long and sometimes contain internal rhymes.In The Family of Little Feet for example, Esperanza says:
“Their arms were little, and their hands were little, and their height was not tall, and their feet very small”(39).Each vignette can stand as an independent mini-story.The vignettes don't connect to one another, although they often mention characters introduced in earlier sections.The conflicts and problems in these short stories are never fully resolved, just as the futures of people in the neighborhood are often uncertain.The overall tone is earnest and intimate, with very little distance between the reader and the narrator.At times the tone also varies from peimistic to hopeful, as Esperanza herself sometimes exprees her jaded views on life:
“I knew then I had to have a house.A real house.The house on Mango Street isn't it.For the time being, Mama says.Temporary, says Papa.But I know how those things go”(The House on Mango Street)
The set of vignettes charts her life as Esperanza grows during the year, both physically and emotionally.Esperanza's age is never told to the reader, but it is implied she is about twelve.She begins to write as a way of expreing herself and as a way to escape the suffocating effect of the neighborhood.The novella also includes the stories of many of Esperanza’s neighbors, giving a full picture of the neighborhood and showing the many influences surrounding her.Esperanza quickly befriends Lucy and Rachel, two Texan girls who live acro the street.Lucy, Rachel, Esperanza, and Esperanza’s little sister, Nenny, have many adventures in the small space of their neighborhood.Esperanza later slips into puberty and begins to like it when boys watch her dance.Esperanza's newfound views lead her to become friends with Sally, a girl her age who wears clothes like black nylon stockings, high heels, and short skirts, and uses boys as an escape from her abusive father.Esperanza is not completely comfortable with Sally’s sexuality.Their friendship is compromised when Sally ditches Esperanza for a boy at a carnival.As a result Esperanza is sexually aaulted by a group of men at the carnival.Earlier at her first job, an elderly man tricked her into kiing him.Esperanza’s traumatic experiences and observations of the women in her neighborhood cement her desire to escape Mango Street.She later realizes that she will never fully be able to leave Mango Street behind.She vows that after she leaves she will return to help the people she has left behind.
