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The house on mango street, common sense media reviewers.

Poetic coming-of-age story deals with abuse, sexual assault.

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What you will—and won't—find in this book.

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Readers will root for the smart, gifted narrator w

Main character is Chicana, and most characters are

On a trip to a carnival, a group of boys attack Es

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One mother smokes a cigarette, references to drink

Parents need to know that Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street is a coming-of-age novel originally published in 1984 about a girl named Esperanza growing up in a lower income Latino neighborhood in Chicago. The book begins when she's 12 and ends when she turns 14. It features gritty material including…

Educational Value

Often assigned in school. Random House provides a list of questions for parents or teachers who want to dive into specific vignettes.

Positive Messages

It's important to strive for a better life and keep a promise to come back for "the ones I left behind."

Positive Role Models

Readers will root for the smart, gifted narrator who displays grit and agency in changing the challenging circumstances in which she grew up, which includes just one room for the whole family to sleep in. She's on a quest for a better life.

Diverse Representations

Main character is Chicana, and most characters are Latino (Mexican, Puerto Rican). Sexism and socioeconomic inequality are major themes.

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Violence & Scariness

On a trip to a carnival, a group of boys attack Esperanza. Esperanza's account of what happened is disjointed and not graphically detailed: She was with Sally but Sally goes off with an older boy, and while Esperanza waits for her, she's assaulted. One boy forces her to kiss him, repeatedly saying "I love you, Spanish girl"; it's implied that she was raped. Esperanza grows up in an environment where men and boys prey on young girls and force girls to kiss them. Husbands and fathers abuse their children.

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Sex, Romance & Nudity

A man hires a woman for sex. Esperanza talks about her awakening sexuality.

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Drinking, Drugs & Smoking

One mother smokes a cigarette, references to drinking.

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Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street is a coming-of-age novel originally published in 1984 about a girl named Esperanza growing up in a lower income Latino neighborhood in Chicago. The book begins when she's 12 and ends when she turns 14. It features gritty material including child abuse, men who treat their wives like captives, and a scene where a group of boys sexually assault a girl. It's not graphically described, but it's implied that she was raped. Esperanza is a smart, gifted narrator who's determined to say goodbye to her neighborhood and forge a better life and a home of her own. This book is often used in the classroom setting, and parents and teachers can use it to open up a variety of discussions, including about the importance of consent . One mother smokes a cigarette, and there are references to drinking.

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Based on 17 parent reviews

Requires maturity, but incredible and realistic

Worst book my child has read in a long time, what's the story.

In lyrical language, a young girl discusses growing up in a lower-income Latino neighborhood. She tells her story in short vignettes, describing her friends, her family, and her neighbors, and her dream to have a "house all my own... Only a house quiet as snow, a space for myself to go, clean as paper before the poem."

Is It Any Good?

In these short, poetic installments, Sandra Cisneros captures the sadness and desperation Esperanza sees among her neighbors, especially the women. Esperanza writes about her house on Mango Street with "windows so small you'd think they were holding their breath"; her mother, who quit school and pushes her to continue her education; and her friend Sally, who gets married too young to escape her house, only to end up trapped by her husband, who doesn't allow her to see friends or leave the house. There's also the confusion that comes with growing up, and the beauty in small moments, like riding a bike with friends.

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Families can talk about the writing in The House on Mango Street . The book is written in vignettes. Is this an effective way to tell a story? How would the book have been different if it had been a more straightforward novel?

The House on Mango Street was first published in 1984. Why do you think it has had such a lasting appeal? Do you think it's still as relevant as it was when it was published?

Book Details

• Author : Sandra Cisneros
• Genre : Coming of Age
• Book type : Fiction
• Publisher : Vintage Books
• Publication date : April 9, 1991
• Publisher's recommended age(s) : 12 - 17
• Number of pages : 128
• Last updated : October 9, 2021

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Book review: “The House on Mango Street” by Sandra Cisneros

There is a universal quality to Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street and also something very specific.

This is the story of Esperanza Cordero, and, at its heart, it is the story of every child who has gone through the very difficult transformation into becoming a teenager with all its excitement, fear, challenge and risk. No wonder it’s read in so many high school classes.

At the same time, the book’s strength as literature is that it tells the story of a unique girl in a unique place — a Mexican-American girl in the neighborhoods of Chicago whose life is focused not only on the changes in her body but also on her need to figure out how to maneuver in the broader world.

Esperanza lives in a community that is made up of newly arrived immigrants from Mexico and first-generation Americans, but also includes black and white people from such places as Texas, Kentucky, Tennessee and Puerto Rico.

There’s even Ruthie, an emotionally fragile woman, who wears a babushka, the colorful traditional Russian headscarf that, in mid-twentieth century Chicago, was ubiquitous as a means of protecting the hair of women of many backgrounds from the wind.

Ruthie, tall skinny lady with red lipstick and blue babushka, one blue sock and one green because she forgot, is the only grown-up we know who likes to play…She is Edna’s daughter, the lady who owns the big building next door, three apartments front and back.

Another neighbor whom Esperanza meets shortly after arriving at the family’s new house on Mango Street is Cathy, Queen of Cats, who lives with her father in a home he built.

You want a friend, she says. Okay, I’ll be your friend. But only till next Tuesday. That’s when we move away. Got to. Then as if she forgot I just moved in, she says the neighborhood is getting bad…. [They’ll] move a little farther north from Mango Street, a little farther away every time people like us keep moving in.

“Holding their breath”

The House on Mango Street is a novel comprising 46 vignettes of one to seven pages each. It opens with Esperanza explaining:

We didn’t always live on Mango Street. Before that we lived on Loomis on the third floor, and before that we lived on Keeler. Before Keeler it was Paulina, and before that I can’t remember. But what I remember is moving a lot.

Alas, the family has to move quickly from their flat on Loomis, and what they can afford doesn’t fit their dreams.

It’s small and red with tight steps in front and windows so small you’d think they were holding their breath. Bricks are crumbling in places, and the front door is so swollen you have to push hard to get in. There is no front yard, only four little elms the city planted by the curb.

“Neighborhood of roofs”

Cisneros is cagy about the location of the house, keeping it vague. Late in the novel, Esperanza gives its address as 4006 Mango. The descriptions in the vignettes of the growing Hispanic presence in the neighborhood would seem to suggest that the house is on the Near Southwest Side — 4006 S. Mango St. if there were such a place.

There is a Mango Avenue in Chicago, but no Mango Street. Chicago’s Mango Avenue runs on through much of the Northwest Side, from North Avenue to Elston Avenue, three blocks west of Central Avenue. Any house at 4006 N. Mango Ave. would be in the Portage Park neighborhood which, in the mid-1980s when this novel was published, was only about five percent Latino.

If, like many Chicago streets, Mango Avenue continued further south, a house at 4006 S. Mango Avenue would be in the southwest suburb of Stickney.

It’s tempting to imagine that Cisneros was thinking about the area of Chicago where her family bought its first house — at 1525 N. Campbell Ave. — and where she lived in her adolescence. Although Cisneros has acknowledged that she plumbed her own life experience for her novel, the West Town community area where her family’s home was situated was solidly Hispanic (about 60 percent) during the 1980s. (Over the last quarter century, of course, it has been heavily gentrified.)

The novel’s setting also seems to fit the Brighton Park neighborhood which is just south of the overwhelmingly Mexican community of Little Village. During the 1980s, the Latino population in Brighton Park more than doubled — rising from 15 percent in 1980 to 37 percent in 1990. In addition, it contains eight streets (along 40 th Street) that could have a 4006 address.

The bottom line, though, is that we don’t really know where Esperanza’s home is located, and that’s a good thing.

The neighborhood she lives in represents every Chicago neighborhood. It is, Esperanza says, a “neighborhood of roofs, black-tarred and A-framed and in their gutters, the balls that never came back down to earth.”

Any child who grew up in Chicago lived in that neighborhood.

“Just another wetback”

As a Chicagoan, Esperanza is not just a resident of her neighborhood but also of the wider city. For instance, she gets her a first job at a photo finishing business on Broadway on the North Side. And Marin, an older girl she knows from Puerto Rico, is already moving out into the city as something of a trailblazer for her younger friend.

Marin has been making money by selling Avon Products, but she wants to

get a real job downtown because that’s where the best jobs are, since you always get to look beautiful and get to wear nice clothes and can meet someone in the subway who might marry you and take you to live in a big house far away.

On the weekends, Marin goes to dances all over the city, including the Aragon Ballroom, the Uptown Theater and the Embassy Ballroom, and it’s at one of those dances that she meets Geraldo, a guy in a shiny shirt and green pants who works at a restaurant. They dance together, and, then, he goes outside and — like that! — is killed by a car, a hit-and-run accident.

Marin is the last person to see him alive, and she is shaken by his death although, as she tells anyone who asks, he wasn’t anyone to her, really — “Just another brazer who didn’t speak English. Just another wetback. You know the kind. The ones who always look ashamed.”

There is no one to be found to take his body. No one who knows him. His is the story of generations of single immigrant men who have come to the United States and have tried to navigate a foreign culture. In one of the most poignant passages in The House on Mango Street , Cisneros writes about Geraldo,

They never saw the kitchenettes. They never knew about the two-room flats and sleeping rooms he rented, the weekly money orders sent home, the currency exchange. How could they? His name was Geraldo. And his home is in another country. The ones he left behind are far away, will wonder, shrug, remember Geraldo — he went north…we never heard from him again.

“Shakity-shake”

Those who don’t know any better come into our neighborhood scared. They think we’re dangerous. They think we will attack them with shiny knives. They are stupid people who are lost and got here by mistake.

The people of her neighborhood aren’t afraid of what outsiders think to be scary-looking dudes. They know them as family members and friends and just part of the landscape. “All brown all around, we are safe.”

It’s different, she notes, when her neighbors go elsewhere in the city.

But watch us drive into a neighborhood of another color and our knees go shakity-shake and our car windows get rolled up tight and our eyes look straight. That is how it goes and goes.

Esperanza’s mother was born in Chicago. Her father is from Mexico. And, one early morning, her father wakes her up in the dark to tell her that her abuelito (Grandpa) has died. Sitting on the edge of her bed, he “crumples like a coat” and cries.

My Papa, his thick hands and thick shoes, who wakes up tried in the dark, who combs his hair with water, drinks his coffee, and is gone before we wake, today is sitting on my bed. And I think if my own Papa died what would I do. I hold my Papa in my arms. I hold and hold and hold him.

Her father will have to go back home for the burial and will bring back a black-and-white photograph of the tomb. Meanwhile, Esperanza as the eldest will tell her brothers and sister the news and explain to them the need to be quiet and respectful.

She will be the bridge between her father’s generation and her own, and a bridge between Mexico and America, and, ultimately, a bridge between her family’s neighborhood and the wider world she will realize she wants to discover.

“His dirty fingernails”

Esperanza also finds herself traveling over the bridge between childhood and adulthood, a journey that fills her with confusion, excitement and trepidation.

An older boy named Sire is watching her as he rides his bike past her, and they exchange glances:

I looked because I wanted to be brave, straight into the dusty cat fur of his eyes and the bike stopped and he bumped into a parked car, bumped, and I walked fast. It made your blood freeze to have somebody look at you like that.

Her father tells her the boy is just a punk, but she can’t stop thinking about him:

Everything is holding its breath inside me. Everything is waiting to explode like Christmas. I want to be all new and shiny. I want to sit out bad at night, a boy around my neck and the wind under my skirt.

Yet, the transition from child to adult is painful and harrowing for Esperanza.

At the photo finishing store, an Asian co-worker grabs her face and gives her an unwanted kiss on the lips.

Later, at a carnival, an older boy sexually assaults her — “only his dirty fingernails against my skin, only his sour-smell again…He wouldn’t let me go. He said I love you, I love you, Spanish girl.”

“All my own”

Like generations of other children of immigrants, Esperanza yearns for her own life, one that is not circumscribed by the world of her parents or her neighborhood.

She wants to leave the house on Mango Street for a house of her own — “a house on a hill like the ones with the gardens where Papa works.” For a Sunday drive, the family goes to those richer neighborhoods with the richer houses and rubbernecks at the elegance, beauty and stateliness of the buildings.

But Esperanza doesn’t go any longer, “tired of looking at what we can’t have.” Instead, she imagines the future:

Not a flat. Not an apartment in back. Not a man’s house. Not a daddy’s. A house all my own. With my porch and my pillow, my pretty purple petunias. My books and my stories. My two shoes waiting beside the bed. Nobody to shake a stick at. Nobody’s garbage to pick up after. Only a house quiet as snow, a space for myself to go, clean as paper before the poem.

“Mango Street”

Esperanza wants to escape the house on Mango Street, and the neighborhood, and the life she has led and that her parents and siblings will continue to lead. But, she is told by family and friends, she can never fully leave.

No, Alicia says. Like it or not you are Mango Street, and one day you’ll come back too. Not me. Not until somebody makes it better. Who’s going to do it? The mayor? And the thought of the mayor coming to Mango Street makes me laugh out loud. Who’s going to do it? Not the mayor.

And, so it is, at the end of the novel that Esperanza is picturing the future. She knows she will leave. She knows she will find her way in the outer world. She knows she will find a house of her own.

But she will remain who she is, even as her friends and family wonder about her life away from them.

They will not know I have gone away to come back. For the ones I left behind.   For the ones who cannot out.

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For more than three decades Patrick T. Reardon was an urban affairs writer, a feature writer, a columnist, and an editor for the Chicago Tribune. In 2000 he was one of a team of 50 staff members who won a Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting. Now a freelance writer and poet, he has contributed chapters to several books and is the author of Faith Stripped to Its Essence. His website is https://patricktreardon.com/.

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A coming-of-age classic about a young girl growing up in Chicago.

Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught in schools and universities alike, and translated around the world --- from the winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature.

THE HOUSE ON MANGO STREET is one of the most cherished novels of the last 50 years. Readers from all walks of life have fallen for the voice of Esperanza Cordero, growing up in Chicago and inventing for herself who and what she will become. “In English my name means hope,” she says. “In Spanish it means too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting."

Told in a series of vignettes --- sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes joyous --- Sandra Cisneros’ masterpiece is a classic story of childhood and self-discovery and one of the greatest neighborhood novels of all time. Like Sinclair Lewis’ MAIN STREET or Toni Morrison’s SULA, it makes a world through people and their voices, and it does so in language that is poetic and direct. This gorgeous coming-of-age novel is a celebration of the power of telling one’s story and of being proud of where you're from.

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

• Publication Date: April 3, 1991
• Genres: Fiction
• Paperback: 110 pages
• Publisher: Vintage
• ISBN-10: 0679734775
• ISBN-13: 9780679734772

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Mexican-American author, Sandra Cisneros, tells the story of a young Latin American girl growing up in a poor Chicago neighborhood. Taught in middle school and in high school classrooms throughout the country and translated into many languages, this coming-of-age narrative is a timeless classic.

Told through a series of vignettes, the protagonist, Esperanza, whose name means hope in Spanish, moves with her family into a dilapidated house on Mango Street in a predominantly poor and Hispanic barrio. Her courage to carve a future for herself and her will to defy the limitations that have been placed upon her and the other women in her life inspire both young and old readers. Cisneros explores such themes and topics as gender, family, shame, cultural tradition, and denial.

The lyricism of Cisneros’ diction and language throughout the novel brings the characters to life. Her characters force us to confront the emotions that connect us to one another and help us to understand personal relationships, which can be both heartbreaking and rejuvenating. We, as readers, also learn of the impacts that poverty, violence, and abuse can have on individuals, families, and communities.

Cisneros breathes life into Esperanza as the first-person narrator whose stories tackle such stark topics as abuse and misogyny. Through Esperanza’s narrations and short sketches, we also learn of her neighbors and their lives. The book begins with an introduction of its collection of characters whom the protagonist meets and encounters. Readers explore Esperanza’s unique cultural background and learn of her innermost thoughts through her distinct voice and her use of lyrical and descriptive language. With each vignette, the characters expose readers to the long-lasting effects of shame and pride, inclusion and exile, hope and hopelessness.

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The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (1984) Vintage (2009) 110 pp

When the book begins, we meet our narrator, twelve-year-old Esperanza Cordero. She and her family has moved around a lot, but most recently — and it will turn out to be her home for the next several years — they have moved into a house in an impoverished Chicago neighborhood on Mango Street. It’s not all she’d hoped for.

When I picked the book up, I was surprised by how short its chapters were. There are 44 of them in this book that goes barely over 100 pages. But they’re often even shorter than that would suggest. The way the chapters are laid out in this edition, the start of each begins well below the fold on its first page, and some of the chapters end just a few lines onto the next page. The longest ones are just a few pages.

Despite the brevity, Cisneros packs so much into the short vignettes as we go through the next few years of Esperanza’s life. Some vignettes are funny, some are tragic, but all are immediate. Cisneros captures the voice of a young girl trying to understand the complicated world around her, and in Esperanza’s confusion we learn so much about her, about growing up in general, and about growing up in her situation in particular.

Cisneros has referred to this book as a button jar, with each vignette a different shape and hue, which is such a lovely way to think of this remarkable book.

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I live in New Zealand and just read it for the first time and loved it too – each vignette was a like a gemstone or a bit of interesting sea-glass found on the beach Three high school girls I tutor read it recently for their year 10 (15-16 year olds) English class. Mixed reviews – one loved it and added it to her Classics list, another liked it because it was ‘so vivid and relatable’ and the last didn’t bother to finish it (a non-reader and this didn’t change her mind)

I know I have a copy of _The House on Mango Street_ , somewhere. It’s gotten to that point: so many books, not enough shelving, so I sometimes lose track of where they are. I know it’s a short and easy read, so I’ll read it as soon as I find it.

Meanwhile, I’ve got her poem “Hernia” in the current (July 1) New Yorker, which I saw while reading “Vincent’s Party”.

Is copying the whole poem here allowed? If so, let me know, and I’ll post it. For now, a few clips.

I’m not the best poetry interpreter, by far. But I can relate to this. A hernia has made the speaker feel her age, or more.

“A mean trick” has warned her not to “grow cocky”, and think herself “forever young”.

Seven years ago, I too late found 3 bloated infected ticks in hidden places. Became sick and weak with Lyme, lost over 20 pounds—all lean weight, I had virtually no fat. I was very “young” and buff for my age. Had become “cocky”, proud, I suppose, forever young… But the spirochetes aged me 20 years. I routed them out and healed myself, but was never again what I once was. In my weakened state, I then develped shingles and was left with chronic nerve damage, which for over 5 years has felt like a big 3rd degree burn, 24/7, irritated by movement.

^…”more and more complaints to threaten complacency. Please.”

I take no pain killers, because they kill the brain—and the body, truth be known!

I let my new condition limit me for a long time. I believed in it, excused myself…

“Is old fear, and, if fear, now is the time to deal with here”…

Not sure how Cisneros, or the voice of her poem, is dealing with it, but:

I stopped allowing myself to be controlled by pain or fear of pain. If I must feel pain, so be it. Pain is just “there”. I may die with it, until then I plow on …

I’ve just read a story by Sandra Cisneros: ^Never Marry a Mexican”. It may be her most famous story. It’s in her collection _Woman Hollering Creek_ (1991). It is also included in _More Stories We Tell_ (2004), the second of two anthologies of stories by North American women, edited by Wendy Martin. The first was _We Are the Stories We Tell_ (1990). The two volumes total close to 700 pages, with 48 stories from 1946 to 2002, although only 14 are before 1980, and those are mostly 1970s.

The first person narrator is Clemencia, American woman born to an American born Mexican mother and a Mexican born Mexican father. The mother tells her, never marry a Mexican. Clemencia says she’ll never marry anyone, although she has dreamed of doing so, except that she has certain ideals, but has come to know what marriage and men are really like. She has engaged in infidelities, and. “… I’ve… committed premeditated crimes. I’m guilty of having caused deliberate pain to other women. I’m vindictive and cruel, and I’m capable of anything.”

All this and more we learn in the first three paragraphs. She goes on to tell us the details. As narrator, she addresses the reader, or else Drew, a man she was having an affair with while his wife was giving birth to his son, whom she also alternately addresses. Toward the end of the 15 pages, she asks us, “Are you convinced now I’m crazy as a tulip or a taxi? As vagrant as a cloud?”

I look forward to reading the rest of the Cusneros collection. The anthology set also looks like a great reading project.

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The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

• Publication Date: April 3, 1991
• Genres: Fiction
• Paperback: 110 pages
• Publisher: Vintage
• ISBN-10: 0679734775
• ISBN-13: 9780679734772
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I was looking forward to reading “The House on Mango Street.” Something in the title and the cover caught my eye. After I found out how highly the novel is regarded for the realistic portrayal of a Latino community in America, and challenges that come with being part of it, I got really excited. Books, which focus on these experiences, resonate with me as a first-generation immigrant. However, I don’t know many good ones. “The House on Mango Street” had the potential to be a lot more than good, but it fell short in a few areas and left me with mixed feelings instead.

Sandra Cisneros is a poet, who has a beautiful, vivid writing style. It shows in her prose too, where every sentence incorporates a unique rhythm. Cisneros structured the book as a series of vignettes about a Chicana girl in a lower-income neighborhood of Chicago. Each vignette can exist on its own, and there is no traditional plot connecting them. In a foreword the author explains wanting to create a text “as succinct and flexible as poetry” and “as simple and readable as possible,” so it’s easy to understand at any point of the narrative. To achieve that, Cisneros abandons quotation marks and some other punctuation along with detailed references to time and space, doing the opposite – making the reading problematic and less engaging.

While I usually enjoy abstract short stories, bundled together under a common theme, when I pick up a novel, especially a novel announced “modern coming-of-age classic,” I expect a certain storyline, a conflict and deeper characters. “The House on Mango Street” barely has any of these elements and meets the criteria of a novella at best. It feels like a kaleidoscope of people and events that flicker through, disappearing right when you want to take a closer look at what’s going on. Even the protagonist Esperanza remains a stranger until the end. Nevertheless, sharing different moments with her as she figures out life on Mango Street and beyond is very interesting.

Some situations are funny, some are sad. Some are optimistic, some are grim. And all – thought-provoking. Brought up under the strong influence of Mexican culture, but exposed to other opportunities at the same time, Esperanza notices the limitations imposed by a patriarchal society on every woman in her surrounding and dares to break that cycle. Cisneros invites readers to explore the idea of freedom and belonging from Esperanza’s point of view. The theme of establishing oneself during adolescence is dominant throughout the book. The author also gently touches on complex subjects of gender roles, poverty, domestic abuse and violence.

Though The House on Mango Street doesn’t tell a cohesive story and might appear too metaphor-heavy for some, it is still a great read with a powerful message. In a way, its unusual format actually works for the main audience: young adults and their mentors. First will enjoy bite-size chapters, and second can count on livelier discussions. The book introduces harsh realities, yet leaves enough space to dream and hope. “Hope” is what the name Esperanza means in English, and is what Cisneros encourages her readers to see in the world, no matter how difficult things may get.

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I have disappeared under a tower of books that I am still considering for my English 1 class, at this, the eleventh hour. Class begins in a week and a half and I want to check on, oh, about thirty books. At least if I could read a book a day this week I might figure out what I have to … And then I could come up with a choose-your-own list over the next few months. I will not be emerging from this pile of books for some time, so strap on your seatbelts and get ready for a bombardment of high-school-reading reviews. (It’s not that I didn’t begin months ago, it’s just that what with the state of the world, country, and my resultant personal life, I’ve preferred to dissolve into a blob of Schitt’$ Creek – or Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives -watching goo rather than use my taxed brain or emotions on anything more substantial during nearly every moment of “free time.”)

I was really kind of hoping that The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros was going to be one of our reads for this year, but I wasn’t tremendously hopeful. I knew that the two high schoolers I had surveyed were not fans. I knew that it was bound to be very feminine (which would be okay once or twice, but with a class of all boys I was hoping to lean hard on what might interest them and I was also pulling for Persepolis and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings ). I also had the vague idea that it might involve some sexual something. Might. I don’t know where I got that idea though I imagine that the poetic writing lends itself to various interpretations. Or confusion. Also, imagine with me if you will a teeny-tiny, grass roots private school. That’s sorta like a home school co-op. The parents have very long arms into my classroom, so I have to pick my battles (especially since they are teaching four days out of five) and these are not California arts students.

Anyhow, I have decided—like with The Martian Chronicles —to use parts of the novel as opposed to assigning the whole. I am going to use these parts to talk about short story collections as novels and assign a half-dozen of the “short stories.” That’s also what we can talk about here: short story collections as novels. Like with Olive Kitteridge , some people say The House on Mango Street is a novel (or, really, a novella) and others are concerned about the lack of plot, character development, long chapters, long paragraphs, quotation marks and some other conventional punctuation, and generally normal story elements in Mango Street . It’s, well, it’s vague. Which makes sense because it’s almost poetry. These days, some of it might even pass as prose poetry or some other combo/experimental form of poetry. Seven of the first eight chapters are less than a page long. The last line of the second chapter is, “The snoring, the rain, and Mama’s hair that smells like bread.” It’s a fragment, obviously, but it’s also pregnant with sensory detail, metaphor, emotion, and melody. The plug on the front of my copy is by Gwendoyln Brooks, a poet. On the back, the book is called “a series of vignettes.” Which maybe is one of the reasons it gets used in classrooms. It’s brief and it’s different.

There were some things that I found confusing about this book, mainly the passage of time. I wasn’t sure if we were going along chronologically or jumping around, and due to subject matter I thought that we had passed through years and years of Esperanza’s coming of age. Then at the end it was like, oh, and like a year later I was still hoping to leave. Weird. I think I was reading her as much too young at the beginning. Perhaps it was supposed to be innocence? I thought she was a child, but notes online tell me that she is “entering adolescence” the whole time. Well. I also found it difficult to keep track of the characters because we spend so little time with each one. You could argue that there is a raw intimacy with some of these characters or at least with Esperanza (the narrator), but without the usual kinds of details and plot I felt unmoored from the supporting friends and family.

Other than that, I really enjoyed the book even if it did have a hazy, soporific effect on me. (I didn’t literally fall asleep, but felt mentally and emotionally subdued under it’s cottony style.) The language is beautiful and the style is unique. The subject matter is interesting: a pre-pubescent Chicano girl moves into her family’s first actual (disappointing) home in a poor, Latino suburb of Chicago. She experiences several life-changing and hurtful things while she is also experiencing the changes of a new place and her body. She carefully watches the girls and women around her. She dreams of what her life will one day become. So you see life from the point of view of Northern American slums, from the LatinX population, from a girl who is becoming a woman. The vulnerability of all of this is underlined, high-lighted, and circled. While Esperanza is making herself vulnerable to us, it is just the plain truth that she is already about as vulnerable as a person can be and is looking for a way to build herself her own castle, her own fortress behind which she will be able to hide all that exposure to a sharp world. We watch and cringe as she runs out there into her world and we feel all the dangers before she ever sees them coming.

What I’m saying a little is that I didn’t love this book even though it is right up my alley. I had a much better time reading Julia Alvarez back in the day, but I do enjoy some approachable poetry, some experimental novella-ing. Perhaps it was that occasionally I felt a guilty twinge at having just read something I suspected was cheesy . I have the artist’s horror of cheesiness. I would recommend the book and I will be using bits of it in class.

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I stopped reading this review at LatinX.

Thanks for causing me to go back and revisit this term. I don’t know why you objected, but I do see that since I wrote this blog there has been more public rejection of “Latinx” because it does not allow for many actual Latino people who cannot pronounce the X and are more comfortable with using their own term, Latine. Personally, I find grappling with gramatically gendered language (meaning language that uses gender for objects and even agreement of verbs and adjectives) problematic when speaking in English (which is grammatically gender-neutral), and therefore am not totally comfortable with “Latino” or “Latina” in various instances (and so was happy when a blanket term–LatinX–became more common). I will stick with Latine from now on, then, which includes male and female under one term and is more in line with my linguistic perspective. If you object because of this issue, then I apologize and can only claim good intentions and 2021. If you object because it is an “inclusive” term, well, then that’s another conversation and one best not had on a writing and reading blog, I think.

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The House on Mango Street: Book Review

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros is a charming novel about an adolescent Mexican girl named Esperanza. It explores different aspects of what it's like to be welcomed into the world of woman hood. Like sexuality, body changes, mental changes, the feelings of being judged and along all this being a feminist. It is worth reading in my opinion, because of all this.

Esperanza moves around a lot. The house on mango street, is different it represents her upcoming release into the world of being a woman an a feminist. The house is crumbling and old, and there live Esperanza, Nenny (her little sister) and their parents. As she lives there Esperanza meets her neighbors and makes friends all over the place. With every friend she learns something about real life. Like poverty, greed and men driven by sexual things. While her female companions want boys and to be a good little housewife, Esperanza doesn't. Esperanza wants to own a house with a garden on a hill, a house of her own and never forgetting who she is, letting bums live in her attic. I didn't dislike anything in the book really, but I love Esperanza's will for independence and enjoying the small moments of life.

All in all, I being a "hippie type" who loves feminist beliefs recommend you to read The House on Mango Street. Where the book is full of symbols of womanhood and independence. Strong will and the sadness of growing up and realizing what the world is like are recurring themes. If you like the idea of a feminist world or even if you don't I suggest you read this.

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Book Review: The House on Mango Street

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros is a coming-of-age story that follows a Latina girl living in Chicago. It is a story about finding who you are and your place in the world. This book is fun, simple, and written so anyone can read it. The book does not have to be read in any order, and the individual chapters carry so much meaning. The book is heartbreaking and inspiring, touching the reader's heart with warmth. This book will not disappoint. Overall, I would give it a five out of five stars.

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• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Knopf (April 26, 1994)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 160 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 067943335X
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0679433354
• Reading age ‏ : ‎ 1 year and up
• Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 870L
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.45 x 0.76 x 6.76 inches
• #661 in Hispanic American Literature & Fiction
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Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago in 1954. Internationally acclaimed for her poetry and fiction, she has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Lannan Literary Award and the American Book Award, and of fellowships.

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Customers find the book has super short chapters and a fast pace. They also say it's enjoyable for adults and an inspiration to young girls. Readers describe the writing style as beautiful and the content as superb and great for conversation in the classroom. However, some customers feel the plot is not very captivating, inconsistent, and underdeveloped.

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Customers find the writing style beautiful, brilliant, and pliant as branches. They also say the figurative language used is effective. Customers also say that the narrator is likable, dynamic, and down to earth. They say the book has an interesting format and strong message.

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"...I did not truly dislike any part of the book. I think it was a very nicely written book , tastefully covering a wide range of topics...." Read more

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"...Almost everything is about her and there is no real understanding or even an attempt at understanding the others and their viewpoints...." Read more

Customers find the content superb, fascinating, and adds many topics that they would not expect. They also describe the book as honest, revealing, and raw truth. Readers also mention that the political discourse is important, motivating, and great for conversation in the classroom.

"...book does not have much depth to it, it is a fascinating read and adds many topics that you would not expect to appear within this book...." Read more

"...It lives as such because of the insurmountable pockets of dense metaphor that yells at the “House,” or society in general...." Read more

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"...It is a short and simply written coming-of-age story , about a disadvantaged young girl, that any woman, especially, can relate to...." Read more

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"...The book is really good and the way it was written added a lot of flavor to the stories that she told. I would recommend this to any child or adult...." Read more

"...Don't get me wrong... I liked it... it leaves you with a good taste but with the feeling that this could have been better had the writer being bolder." Read more

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"...The vignettes were so short and in poetry that none were touching or heartbreaking . Not a good book at all. So disconnected and random." Read more

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