The Role Of Time In The House On Mango Street
When we study the role of manipulating time in narratives,we always consider how the time is manipulated and why the author arranges the timeline in the story. At the same time, the sequence of time can also make the audience have a different understanding and emphasis on the story. With the continually expanding of meeting the needs of society throughout human history, different narrative styles are evolving. Narratives today, unlike storytelling in the past, turns into an important and useful tool to help people interpret reality and even reflect some problematic phenomenon in society. For instance, an inspirational story may motivate and help a person who is under a shadow of failure renerve. My goal in this article is to analyze the manipulation of time in the book “The House on Mango Street“, illustrating the importance and role of time.
The article “The House on Mango Street“ written by Sandra Cisneros is narrated in the author’s own perpective, telling that her family and she moved from their former house to the one on Mango street because water pipes in the former house broke. The article describes how their entire family’s dwelling narrowness life in the house on Mango street and the author’s pursue to have a dream house and fly off from Mango street as well as poverty.
The full text is similar to the tone of children described, but the content contained is not a childish child can bear, and the technique is quite implicit. Sometimes when tactfully expressing dependence on life, across the author here readers may want to know children's defect, the attitude toward life and heart of compassion. This childish but sophisticated representation is a breakthrough to the traditional narratives based on causal logic and time sequence. The article is in chronological order and in perspective of a child, which makes the content closer to reality. In narratives, time can be manipulated by different narration modes such as flashback and interposed. Different modes can emphasize different parts of a story. Every story has initiation, development, climax, and ending. However, the order of narrating may not like this. Timeline can be twisted in narratives. In this story, the author want to express a story of her life, mutually expressing the lengthy process of her growth. Consequently, chronological order is the most suitable mode.
Serious, thoughts and feelings without stint in life and society, adults often won't understand it because they just can not explain the child's mind.Life is so hard to understand, which allows a group of people to find a language.It allows only a part of people to lose it, but it's really wonderful. Trying to keep a man on the edge, but there's a clearing behind him. The author says “They think we’re dangerous.” (Sandra 27) They have no identity, no poverty, no neglect, they are rootless, trying with hope to find their place in the new world; a house that is large enough for everyone to take a bath at same time without letting everyone knows. Of course, life is not always full of sadness and pain. At least her family is with her and her dream.
Light ink is a growing public experience that transcends race so that it can hit our most sensitive nerve endings lightly. It is hard to understand why they call it a happy book. What this book seeks to restore is a child's perspective and mood, fresh and clean, free from dust. Like a person who knows the end, used to the road in the interest of talking. From the story of the author, we can see how manipulation of time enhances readers’ feeling closer to reality, and the way readers think about society has been changed by narratives. Without fancy narration mode, the story is truly restored.
