Essays on The House on Mango Street

Have you ever been forced to move from one home to another? If you have, you know what it feels like to be uprooted away from everything you know and love, and move miles away to something completely new and unknown. Even if you cannot...

In the book The House on Mango Street by Sandra cisneros the book is based around this mostly latino neighborhood, and how it traps the women within it. Esperanza is a 12 year old girl whose family has moved around a lot, and when they...

Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory of personality is hinted at throughout The House on Mango Street, written by Sandra Cisneros. Freud’s theory argues that human behavior is the result of interactions among three components of the mind: the id, ego, and superego. The id component works...

Females rarely received a protagonist role in early Chicano literature and film-making, as writers and filmmakers opted to instead, highlight the male experience throughout the Chicano movement. In many ways, one can argue that it was a somewhat sexist movement, as it was a predominantly...

The structural organization of Sandra Cisnero’s The House on Mango Street, that of brief yet vivid vignettes, is very unique among memoirs. What may at first appear fragmented actually proves very useful in the crafting of the story she is trying to get across. Functioning...

Within Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street novel, Esperanza Cordero comes out as a rebellious character; through her behavior, Cordero challenges social expectations. To this end, Cordero fails to tidy the table after meals. Further, Cordero refuses to accompany her family when it visits...

Sandra Cineros wrote the book, “The House on Mango Street”. She went to Loyola University Chicago and University of Iowa for creative writing. “The House on Mango Street” is one of her books she wrote, along with “Bad Boys”, “My Wicked, Wicked Ways”, “Woman Hollering...