The House on Mango Street PDF

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The House on Mango Street

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The House on Mango Street novel was written by Sandra Cisneros. Sandra Cisneros is a very popular Mexican-American writer who gained huge popularity through her first debut novel. She was born on 20 December 1954 in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Author	Sandra Cisneros
Cover artist	Alejandro Romero
Country	United States
Language	English
Published	1984
Publisher	Arte Público Press
Media type	Print (Hardcover, Paperback, & library binding), audio cassette, and audio CD
Pages	103 (1st edition, paperback)
ISBN	978-0934770200 (1st edition, paperback)
Dewey Decimal	813/.54 20
LC Class	PS3553.I78 H6 1991

Esperanza is a little girl who moves with her family to a house on Mango Street. It’s a small, crumbling red house in a poor urban neighbourhood – not at all what Esperanza had been hoping for when her parents promised to move the family to a house.

Esperanza, who’s often followed by her younger sister Nanny, meets the other residents of Mango Street and describes their often difficult lives in a series of vignettes, or short sketches. Most of the neighbourhood’s residents are Hispanic, including Esperanza, whose father is a Mexican immigrant and whose mother is Latina.

(By the way, check out Sandra Cisneros’s opinion on the terms “Hispanic” and “Latino” under “Trivia.”) The beginning of this book introduces us to a collection of characters and explores their cultural backgrounds and how they are affected by poverty, exile, and the restrictions of prescribed gender roles.

Esperanza is ashamed of her family’s poverty and describes several instances in which she lies, or tries to hide the fact that she is poor, by saying she lives in a different house or hiding her unattractive shoes under the table at a party.

Puberty also provokes some feelings of shame for Esperanza, whose experience of adolescence is made even more painful than usual by two instances of sexual aggression – one in which an old man at work forces her to kiss him, and one in which some boys at a carnival rape her.

Some of Esperanza’s friends also suffer significant hardship: Alicia, whose mother is dead, is forced by her father to rise early every morning to make tortillas for her family; Sally, a beautiful girl at school, endures regular beatings by her father; Minerva, a teenaged mother of two, is constantly being abandoned or beaten by her husband.

Esperanza’s mother encourages her not to let men hold her back, and not to “lay her [her neck] on the threshold waiting for the ball and chain” of marriage (35.3). Witnessing the fate of her female schoolmates who marry young to escape the abuse of their fathers, only to suffer at the hands of their new husbands, Esperanza resolves to leave Mango Street with her books and her papers.

She dreams of having a house all her own, where she can write. An encounter with three spiritual sisters at a neighbourhood wake suggests that she will be successful in escaping the neighbourhood, but that she will never be able to deny her past. The three sisters convince Esperanza that, when she leaves, she must come back for those who cannot leave as easily, and work to make Mango Street a better place.

About the Author of The House on Mango Street PDF

Born	December 20, 1954 (age 67) Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Occupation	Novelist poet short story writer artist
Alma mater	Loyola University Chicago (BA) University of Iowa (MFA)
Period	c. 1980–present
Notable works	The House on Mango Street, Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories
Notable awards	American Book Award, MacArthur Genius Grant

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