Analysis of The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros Essay

After having read the refreshing The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros I leave now concentrate on the background of the novel that moved Sandra Cisneros to write it by investigating the novel with special regard to its different dimensions.1. The Novel1.1 succinctThe novel The House on Mango Street is written by Sandra Cineros. It deals with family, neighbourhood and dreams of a young Mexican girl, Esperanza Cordero growing up in Chicago. The novel begins when the Corderos move into a new house on Mango Street in the Latino section of Chicago. The fact that it is the first house they have eer owned, make them proud. But when Esperanza sees it, she is disappointed by the red, dilapidated house. It is not the one their parents told them nor Esperanza dreamt of.Esperanza is not just dissatisfied with her home, but she is also ashamed of her appearance and of her name, which is eternally mispronunced, and sounds if the syllables were made of tin and if they were a punishmen t for the ears. Esperanza was named after her great-grandmother, who was forced to marry and sentenced to a life full of sadness. But Esperanza swears that she will not have the identical destiny like her great-grandmother. Esperanza longs for a name that fits to her, that expresses her identity Zeze the X (Cisneros, p.11).In time, she notices how joyful and harsh reality can be in life. Her first acquaintance is just a brief one because Cathys familiy soon moves away because of the neighbourhood, that becomes more inhabited by lower-class, people like Esperanzas family.By contribute five dollars for a bike, Esperanza is included in the circle of friends of two younger sisters. By Lucy and Rachel, Esperanza is introduced in the wonders of growing up by talking close clouds, hips and parading nigh Mango Street in high-heeled shoes.By the older kids, Esperanza can observe the hardships young people are confronted with in rough neighbourhoods Louies car theft, the end of a boy by an accident Marin gets to know, and Marins desperate attempt to find a husband she can escape from this place. All these things open Esperanzas eyes and show her the limited chances which are offered and she had in such a neighbourhood. Alicia, on the other hand, is an exemple for the less who leave nothing to his fate, but take the initiative. disdain her fathers view, she goes... ...v. ed., 1970)Keller, Jrg P., The American Dream Gone Astray. (Berne Peter Lang, European Academic Publishers, 1995)Savin, Ada, Mexican-American Literature in New Immigrant Literatures in the United States. (London Alpana Sharma Knippling, 1996)Simone, Roberta, The Immigrant Esperience in American Fiction. (Boston Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1995)Web sourceshttp//www2.cwrl.utexas.edu/sheila/314s96/students/mitch/mach.htm, 2000, 19.Mar.2001http//twu.edu/www/twu/library/zumwalt.html, Mar. 2001, 24.Feb.2001http//voices.cla.umn.edu/authors/SandraCisneros.html, Mar. 2001, 24.Feb.2001-03-22http//www.britanni ca.com/bcom/eb/article/4/0,5716,121244+1+111233,00.html, 27.Feb.2001http//www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/0/0,5716,115530+1+108719,00.html, 03.Mar.2001http//www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=home, Jan.1998, 17.Mar.2001http//www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=machismo, Jan.1998, 19.Mar.2001http//www.hausaufgabe.de/cgi-bin/data/fetch.pl?id=1469&ids=1469+1188, Nov.2000, 03.Mar.2001http//www.nclr.org/about/nclrfaq.html, 1999, 03.Mar.2001http//www.students.depaul.edu/mrodrig/history.html, 09.Mar.2001