Essays on The House on Mango Street

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...

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...

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...

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...

The novel, The House on Mango Street, shows us how hard immigrants from Mexico coming to America are trying to join the community. The novel focuses on the main character, Esperanza’s life and those, especially women, around her. They face all problems: safety, early marriage,...

In this small, poetic book Sanda Ciseros captures the trapped feelings and despair Esperanza sees among all of her neighbors, particularly the women. It is an ongoing theme for Esperanza to tell about different girls and women in her community, abusive husbands or fathers consistently...

The author, Sandra Cisneros, introduces a variety of themes in the novella The House on Mango Street but the main theme is that no one should be leading your journey for you. The key to success is by finding your own way through what life...