House on Mango Street

House on Mango Street
Sara Moreno
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros is an inspiring story that is written in a poetic way that helps describe the protagonist’s feeling, actions or to give a reader a clue why she is writing the certain vignettes. The title of the book is House on Mango Street because the main character does not like living or even being a part of Mango Street because she is ashamed of her heritage and her small, basic home. She wants, more than anything, to have a nice home for her own and not be part of Mango Street, but yet she knows that she'll always be from that place no matter where she moves to because that’s where she grew up in, so deep down inside, she knows that she will always love Mango Street.
The main character or the protagonist is Esperanza, an American Mexican girl, that is different from the girls of her type in the way that she doesn't want to be the typical Mexican woman that is less important that the man. She wants to be the one that works and not the one that stays in the kitchen or takes care of the children by herself. She independent in a way because she thinks differently that the rest. She thinks that the way to get out of poverty is to work hard and do good in school unlike the other girls who either think that they should marry a rich man or that it won’t be possible for a woman to get out of poverty because the woman shouldn't work.
House on Mango Street is written, how I mentioned before, in vignettes. Each vignette have a different story that describes the troubles of growing up in poverty and how it's like being a woman in a place with sexism. It fist starts to be told from when Esperanza was a child but as the book goes on, Esperanza starts to grow and starts maturing. In the beginning it seems like if she where around eight or nine years old, around the middle of the book she seems to be teenager but at the end she seems to be around seventeen, and then a young adult.
The memoirist came to noticed many things at the end. One of them is that she noticed that no matter where she moves to, she will always be part of Mango Street. She moves from her small, pitiful house but she seems to start missing it after she's got the house she's always wanted. Another thing she noticed was that even if she is a woman, she could still accomplish her dream of having a nice home of herself and have a decent job because she worked hard and didn't make stupid decisions like marrying the wrong man or get pregnant before she should.
This novel is inspiring in many ways especially to woman and people who live in poverty. It shows that no matter who you are or how you live, you can always do what you wish if you just try hard and never give up. It also shows that one you have a home, you will always be part of it. Another thing that I like is some lines like where “You must keep writing. It will keep you free.” And Nenny, I say, but don’t hear me. She’s too many light years away. She is in a world we don’t belong to anymore. Nenny. Going.”