The House on Mango Street Book Analysis Essay

📌Category: Books, The House on Mango Street
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📌Published: 03 April 2022

Imagine being locked up in your own house, and not allowed to go outside or do anything but stay at home, and do something and not be able to talk to anybody. That is what being a Married Woman in high poverty areas most of the time looked like. In the realistic fiction novel, The House on Mango Street, author Sandra Cisneros uses the “house on Mango Street” as an ongoing symbol, representing the shame young girls feel as her maturity forces her to look at the idea of “home” with more and more clarity as she ages and experiences the hardships faced by young women in her neighborhood.

Esperanza first develops the idea of how maturity was when she got her first job as a factory worker. So she first went to the job finished it went on lunch break ate her food then went back to work then during break time she met a man who was part of the next shift he talked to her nicely and she wasn’t nervous anymore and explained it was Esperanza’s first day then the man said it was his birthday and asked for a kiss and Esperanza nervously gave a kiss on the cheek when, “he grabs my face with both hands and kisses me hard on the mouth and doesn't let go”(Cisneros 55). This was her first moment she kind of starts to feel insecurity and maturity because when she was a kid she would talk with everyone one time she even got into someone else's car, But this was the first time she felt what getting older was like in a neighborhood, where people don’t have that much safety for women as they get older and that is also a reason why men lock up their wife’s in the house because they are pretty and if they go outside it is not safe for them, in that age.

Esperanza’s next development of the idea of maturity is when Esperanza is a little older in her high school age and she likes the way she is because when she says, “I am an ugly daughter. I am the one nobody comes for”(Cisneros 88). she means if she was beautiful there are people who will probably stalk you and do terrible things to you, so that is why she is happy she ugly, so she can go around without having to be insecure like the other pretty women who are stuck in their house 24/7 and are bored with no one to talk to and are really sad.

Esperanza developed a lot of ideas of maturity in her neighborhood and that is one of the reasons she doesn’t really like the home because it is not about the home it is actually about the people around in the neighborhood and an example would be when Esperanza was waiting for sally by the red clowns that were nearby, it ends up that the red clowns weren’t the people Esperanza thought they were and when Sally came Esperanza was mad at Sally and said, “Sally, you lied. It wasn’t what you said at all. The way they said it, the way it’s supposed to be, all the storybooks and movies, why did you lie to me?”(Cisneros 99). Esperanza is really sad because Sally betrayed her to the red clowns because clowns are supposed to be funny and kind, she even says like in T.V and in the Books but now this happened she is now probably insecure and scared of clowns. This event is like her major change to show how maturity changed in her neighborhood from when she was a kid to when she was an adult.

This was an amazing novel by author Sandra Cisneros, it talked a lot about what growing up as a girl in a poor neighborhood looked like and how it wasn’t that safe, and for that cause husbands lock their wives up in their houses, and now they are stuck in the house 24/7 and it just makes the wife’s sad. That is why in one of the vignettes she talks about how she is happy to be not pretty because she can be free instead, like other women who are trapped in their house by their Dad, or if they are married by their husband. She also talks a vignette to talk about her first job and another vignette to talk about the red clowns which developed from like level of insecurity for her from a  5/10 when she was kissed by a grown old man at work to the red clown as she got older, which is like a 10/10. This book really talks about different topics that happen in a neighborhood like hers and develops the reader to know about them.

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