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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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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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• Publication Date: April 3, 1991
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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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A Critical review of The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

Aim: In a coming-of-age Hispanic narrative 'The House on Mango Street' Sandra Cisneros portraits a young girl of twelve ‘Esperanza Cordero’, grappling with issues like universal theme of self-exploration and the search for empowerment. Her awakening to realities of the women folk around affirms her conviction to be free from patriarchy and to establish a place full of hope against adversity.

Methodology and Approaches: Sandra Cisneros's “The House on Mango Street” can be analysed from various thematic perspective. Discovery for self, Gender roles, cultural and ethnic identity shape the characters. Recurring symbols and images such as houses, names, colours, shoes and trees convey themes related to identity, dreams, and the search for home.

Outcomes: Bilingualism and the use of Spanish explore how language contributes to the cultural authenticity in narrative and influences the characters' communication. In the beginning protagonist, Esperanza dislikes her house on Mango Street but at the end she recognizes her roots and heritage. Thus, personal growth, self-realization and resolution for community are the outcomes.

Conclusion: Triumph of female characters by taking liberty with the help of some agencies for self-expression against all oddities in a Hispanic patriarchal society makes the novel appealing. Complexities of assimilation, impact of social expectations on individuals within a specific cultural context, socioeconomic analysis, and fragmented episodes depict Esperanza’s evolution for self. Thus, structure and form contribute in conveying overall meaning of the novel.

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Kaushal sharma, assistant prof., applied science, bharati vidyapeeth’s college of engineering, paschim vihar, delhi, 110063.

Dr. Kaushal Sharma has completed M.A in English Literature. She did M.Phil. from University of Delhi. Her Ph.D. title is ‘Narrative Technique in the Novels of Raja Rao’. She has taught in University of Delhi for fifteen years to graduate students of Honors and Pass streams including B.A. B. Com and B.Sc. She joined Bharati Vidyapeeth’s College of Engineering (affiliated to GGSIPU and AICTE) in 2021 as a Permanent Assistant Prof in the Applied Science department. Her areas of interest; Indian English Literature, Novels, Literature of Romantic Period, Post-Colonial Literature and Business Communication.

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“A classic. . . . This little book has made a great space for itself on the shelf of American literature.” —Julia Alvarez   “ Afortunado ! Lucky! Lucky the generation who grew up with Esperanza and   The House on Mango Street. And lucky future readers. This funny, beautiful book will always be with us.” —Maxine Hong Kingston    “Cisneros draws on her rich [Latino] heritage . . . and seduces with precise, spare prose, creat[ing] unforgettable characters we want to lift off the page. She is not only a gifted writer, but an absolutely essential one.” —Bebe Moore Campbell,  The New York Times Book Review   “Marvelous . . . spare yet luminous. The subtle power of Cisneros’s storytelling is evident. She communicates all the rapture and rage of growing up in a modern world.” — San Francisco Cronicle   “A deeply moving novel...delightful and poignant. . . . Like the best of poetry, it opens the windows of the heart without a wasted word.” — Miami Herald   “Sandra Cisneros is one of the most brillant of today’s young writers. Her work is sensitive, alert, nuanceful . . . rich with music and picture.” —Gwendolyn Books

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Customers find the book beautifully written and believable. They describe the stories as short but meaningful, captivating, and thought-provoking. Readers mention the book is enjoyable for adults and great for all ages. They also describe the story as poignant, intense, and heartbreaking. Customers appreciate the value for money, saying it's a great bargain. However, some customers feel the pacing is confusing and boring.

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Customers find the book beautifully written, nice, and fascinating. They say it's easy to read, has an interesting format, and powerful imagery. Readers also mention it'll be entertaining.

"...with the book, The House on Mango Street is very well written and very simple and short (which I like) it can be finished in one sitting or if you..." Read more

" Beautifully written book . Highly recommended." Read more

"...Although the 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

"...I really enjoyed this book because it was an easy read , but there was a lot to take from it...." Read more

Customers find the stories in the book short but meaningful. They say the book is captivating, entertaining, and has a good plot. Readers also mention the stories are heartbreaking and beautiful. They also appreciate the wonderful batch of vignettes.

"...The House on Mango Street is very well written and very simple and short (which I like) it can be finished in one sitting or if you like to take..." Read more

"...I really enjoyed the way the other wrote this book. The story is grouped into small anecdotes instead of the normal chronologically written books...." Read more

"...It is a short read and has a very interesting format...." Read more

"...Negatives: Obviously the narratives have been doctored , edited, and adjusted to speed sales and to make things more viable commercially...." Read more

Customers find the book meaningful, well-written, and interesting to learn about how some people live. They say it adds many topics that you would not expect to learn. Readers also find the themes good and impactful. They also say the book is eye-opening and an interesting way to learn more about the author's world.

"...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

"...This is not a light beachy read. This book begs you to use your intelligence and find the meaning in what Cisneros doesn't say, as much as what she..." Read more

"...Some things are explicit; some things are subtle. This book is a teachable experience ." Read more

"...I personally found the book impactful even though I could not relate to most of the stories. It is a short read and has a very interesting format...." Read more

Customers find the book enjoyable for adults. They say it touches on the joys and challenges of adolescence. Readers also mention it's great for all ages and is perfect for anyone of any class. They also say it'll be an inspiration to young girls and ideal for an older crowd.

"...However, I believe that this book is ideal for an older crowd because connections can be made to aspects of today's world that younger children may..." Read more

"...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

"This book is such an inspiration to young girls , especially young girls growing up in poor areas or immigrant communities...." Read more

"...I would recommend this to any child or adult. Light reading and fun " Read more

Customers find the book poignant, intense, and haunting. They say it reminds them of childhood memories with family and friends. Readers also mention the book takes them to a stress-free place and makes them smile, laugh, and cry.

"...The feelings expressed by the main character are poignant and readily understood, even if you aren't from an Hispanic background." Read more

"...It is, indeed, heartbreaking . This is not, however, a style I typically read. It was a decent, quick read...." Read more

"I liked the rhythm of the book ...." Read more

"...It is not an upbeat book, rather depressing . I had to admire the exquisite way that the author brings each person to life...." Read more

Customers appreciate the value for money of the book. They mention it's a great bargain on a new copy of a classic and a reading tool at the school.

"Daughter needed it for English class!! Came in on time & great price !" Read more

"...used throughout the year as a reading tool at the school, mailed promptly price not bad . I did save money vs recommended site for school." Read more

"...was able to just download the entire book for him to read and the price was great considering other places we tried to locate it in...." Read more

"... GREAT PRICE ." Read more

Customers find the book sweet, endearing, and heartwarming. They say it makes them smile, laugh, and cry.

"...It is somewhat heartwarming and somewhat terrifying read...." Read more

"...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

"...style of writing is so unique, and the characters are relatable and lovable ...." Read more

Customers find the pacing of the book confusing and boring. They also mention the series of vignettes is mindless, incessant, and unedited. Readers also mention that the book is not of depth and the vignes are pointless.

"...Although like I previously mentioned, it is not a book of depth ...." Read more

"...It's an interesting idea, but there's no story , no structure, no continuation. I liked Esperanza's character, and many of the other..." Read more

"This novella, or whatever it is, a series of vignettes, is nothing but mindless , incessant, and unedited ramblings of a girl who doesn't know what..." Read more

"...The novel is full of vignettes , each one describing a separate situation that Esperanza goes through...." Read more

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