the house on mango street
...inority students in Loyala University of Chicago. She served as literature director for the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center in San Antonio, Texas, and was an artist resident at the Foundation Michael Karoli in Vence, France. She has been a guest professor at California State University, University of California, Berkeley, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. Cisneros is also a member of PEN and Mujeres por la Paz, a women’s peace group. Cisneros’ other works include Women Hollering Creek and Other Stories (1991), and the poetry collection Bad Boys and Loose Woman (1994). Cisneros has also contributed to numerous periodicals, including Imagine, Contact II, Glamour, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, the Village Voice and Revista Chicano-Riquena. These works, short in titles but great in fresh literary ideas and cultural resonance, have garnered Sandra Cisneros wide critical acclaim as well as popular success. Theme: In Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street, Cisneros clearly Communicates through her experiences that home is a dream that looks bleak from the poverty of Mango Street. II. Plot A. One can only accept the way the world is and use it to their advantage. B. Everything happens for a reason. C. What does not kill can only make you stronger. D. Stay true to yourself. E. Listen to your elders. III. Criticism Frances Dowell expresses “This book is narrated by Esperanza, who lives in the House on Mango Street. It’s not her dream house but it is the first house her family has ever had”. This quote expresses on of the main themes of the book, Esperanza’s house. The narrator observes the benefits of having a home of one’s own, namely the absence of rent, sharing with neighbors, or minding the landlord. Esperanza is quick to point out that the house on Mango Street was clearly the house she was not expecting. The house on Mango Street is far away from her old neighborhood; it was bought with haste and necessity when the family’s old landlord refused to repair the water pipes. Thus, the narrator expresses her dissatisfied that her promise to one day move into a real house was not fulfilled in on Mango Street. Tad Mehringer states “For Esperanza, a real home is something distant and ...