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The House on Mango Street is a 1984
by Mexican-American writer . It deals with Esperanza Cordero, a young Latina girl, and her life growing up in
and . Esperanza is determined to "say goodbye" to her impoverished Latino neighborhood. Major themes include her quest for a better life and the importance of her promise to come back for "the ones [she] left behind".
The House on Mango Street is made up of
that are not quite poems and not quite full stories. Esperanza narrates these vignettes in
, focusing on her day-to-day activities but sometimes narrating sections that are a series of observations. The vignettes can be as short as two or three paragraphs long and sometimes contain internal . In The Family of Little Feet for example, Esperanza says:
"Their arms were little, and their hands were little, and their height was not tall, and their feet very small Each vignette can stand as an independent story. These vignettes don't follow a complete or chronological narrative, although they often mention characters introduced in earlier sections. The conflicts and problems in these short stories are never fully resolved, just as the futures of people in the neighborhood are often uncertain. The overall
of the novel is earnest and intimate, with very little distance between the reader and the narrator. The tone varies from pessimistic to hopeful, as Esperanza herself sometimes expresses her jaded views on life:
"I knew then I had to have a house. A real house. One I could point to. But this isn't it. The house on Mango Street isn't it. For the time being, Mama says. Temporary, says Papa. But I know how those things go."
The set of vignettes charts her life as Esperanza Cordero grows during the year: both physically and emotionally. Though Esperanza's age is never revealed to the reader, it is implied that she is about thirteen. She begins to write as a way of expressing herself and as a way to escape the suffocating effect of the neighborhood. The novel also includes the stories of many of Esperanza’s neighbors, giving a picture of the neighborhood and showing the many influences surrounding her. Esperanza quickly befriends Lucy and Rachel Guerrero, two Texan girls who live across the street. Lucy, Rachel, Esperanza, and Esperanza’s little sister, Nenny, have many adventures in the small space of their neighborhood.
Esperanza later slips into puberty and likes it when a boy watches her dance at a baptism party. Esperanza's newfound views lead her to become friends with Sally, a girl her age who wears clothes like black nylon stockings, makeup, high heels, and short skirts, and uses boys as an escape from her abusive father. Sally, a beautiful girl according to her father, can get into trouble with being as beautiful as she is. Esperanza is not completely comfortable with Sally’s sexuality. Their friendship is compromised when Sally ditches Esperanza for a boy at a carnival. As a result Esperanza is sexually assaulted by a man at the carnival. Earlier at her first job, an elderly man tricked her into kissing him on the lips. Esperanza’s traumatic experiences and observations of the women in her neighborhood cement her desire to escape Mango Street. She later realizes that she will never fully be able to leave Mango Street behind. She vows that after she leaves she will return to help the people she has left behind. Esperanza exclaims that Mango Street does not h instead, it sets her free.
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Esperanza has dreams, hopes, and plans. These are symbolized by a house. Esperanza regards the house on Mango Street as simply a house she lives in with her family. When she was younger and constantly on the move from apartment to apartment, her parents promised her a real home with a green yard, real stairs, and running water with pipes that worked. She dislikes the house on Mango Street because its sad appearance and cramped quarters are completely contrary to the ideal home she always wanted. Esperanza's goal becomes having a house of her own.
Esperanza is a keen observer of gender roles. Many of the other female characters spend their lives trapped and isolated by men. Rosa Vargas can't do anything for herself because she has too many children and no one to help her raise the children. Alicia has found herself trapped in the kitchen, as she picks up where her deceased mother left off, cooking and cleaning for her younger siblings, although she would like nothing more than to just attend the university. Minerva has an abusive husband who she is constantly fighting with. She finally kicks him out but then lets him back into her life. Rafaela is stuck inside her house because her husband believes that she is too beautiful to go out. Sally is abused by her father, and she dreams of getting married. She eventually marries an older man who does not allow her to leave the house without him, and she is not allowed to have guests over. Esperanza's stories of all of these women make her certain that she will defy gender roles and remain independent.
Esperanza, like most preteens, is searching for her identity. Esperanza is many things: she comes from a poor family, she is female, she is on the verge of adolescence, and she is Mexican. She sorts out all of these parts of herself through her writing, and she discovers that, although all of these things help define who she is, what is the most important part of her identity is her ability to write. After Esperanza has to grow up and explain to her sisters that their grandpa had died, Esperanza goes to see a fortune teller. “Ah, yes, a home in the heart. I see a home in the heart". Esperanza is disappointed in the result of the fortune telling.
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Acclaimed by critics, it has been translated into various languages and has been taught in schools across the United States and Canada. The book received highly positive reception upon release and has been re-issued in a 25th Anniversary Edition. The novel has especially earned high praise from the Latino/Latina community. , the first Hispanic to win a
for Fiction, said that the novel has "conveyed the Southwestern Latino experience with verve, charm, and passion."[]
The book won her the
The novel is also renowned for its humor, despite dealing with serious and mature subjects.[]
Sandra Cisneros' early life was a subject she would later draw on as a writer in books like The House on Mango Street. She was the only daughter among seven children in her family. The story also is about the subject of migration, and about the struggles of her life during it, which included poverty, as well as .
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基本信息?出版社：Vintage ?页码：144 页 ?出版日期：1991年04月 ?ISBN： ?条形码：2 ?装帧：平装 ?正文语种：英语 ?外文 ...
The House on Mango Street
The House on Mango Street
基本信息?出版社：Vintage ?页码：144 页 ?出版日期：1991年04月 ?ISBN： ?条形码：2 ?装帧：平装 ?正文语种：英语 ?外文书名：芒果街上的小屋
Told in a series of vignettes stunning for their eloquence, The House on Mango Street is Sandra Cisneros's greatly admired novel of a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago.
Acclaimed by critics, beloved by , their parents and grandparents, taught everywhere from inner-city grade schools to universities across the country, and translated all over the world, it has entered the canon of coming-of-age classics.Sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous, The House on Mango Street tells the story of Esperanza Cordero, whose neighborhood is one of harsh realities and harsh beauty.
Esperanza doesn't want to belong--not to her rundown neighborhood, and not to the low expectations the world has for her.
Esperanza's story is that of a young girl coming into her power, and inventing for herself what she will become.
Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago in 1954. Internationally acclaimed for her poetry and fiction, she has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Lannan Literary Award and the American Book Award, and of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the MacArthur Foundation. Cisneros is the author of the novels The House on Mango Street and Caramelo, a collection of short stories Woman Hollering Creek, a book of poetry Loose Woman, and a 's book Hairs/Pelitos. She lives in San Antonio, Texas.
&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&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"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
From Publishers Weekly
Esperanza Cordero, a girl coming of age in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago, uses poems and stories to express thoughts and emotions about her oppressive environment. (Apr.)no PW reviewCopyright 1991 Reed
Information, Inc.
From 500 Great Books by W review by Jesse Larsen
Esperanza and her family didn't always live on Mango Street. Right off she says she can't remember all the houses they've lived in but "the house on Mango Street is ours and we don't have to pay rent to anybody,&or&share the yard with the people downstairs,&or&be careful not to make too much noise, and there isn't a landlord banging on the ceiling with a broom. But even so, it's not the house we thought we'd get." Esperanza's childhood life in a Spanish-speaking area of Chicago is described in a series of spare, poignant, and powerful vignettes. Each story centers on a detail of her childhood: a greasy cold rice sandwich, a pregnant friend, a mean boy, how the clouds looked one time, something she heard a drunk say, her fear of nuns: "I always cry when nuns yell at me, even if they're not yelling." Esperanza's friends, family, and neighbors wander in an through them all Esperanza sees, learns, loves, and dreams of the house she will someday have, her own house, not on Mango Street. -- For great reviews of books for girls, check out Let's Hear It for the Girls: 375 Great Books for Readers 2-14.
--This text refers to the Turtleback edition.
From Publishers Weekly
Esperanza Cordero, a girl coming of age in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago, uses poems and stories to express thoughts and emotions about her oppressive environment. (Apr.)no PW reviewCopyright 1991 Reed
Information, Inc.
From 500 Great Books by W review by Jesse Larsen
Esperanza and her family didn't always live on Mango Street. Right off she says she can't remember all the houses they've lived in but "the house on Mango Street is ours and we don't have to pay rent to anybody,&or&share the yard with the people downstairs,&or&be careful not to make too much noise, and there isn't a landlord banging on the ceiling with a broom. But even so, it's not the house we thought we'd get." Esperanza's childhood life in a Spanish-speaking area of Chicago is described in a series of spare, poignant, and powerful vignettes. Each story centers on a detail of her childhood: a greasy cold rice sandwich, a pregnant friend, a mean boy, how the clouds looked one time, something she heard a drunk say, her fear of nuns: "I always cry when nuns yell at me, even if they're not yelling." Esperanza's friends, family, and neighbors wander in an through them all Esperanza sees, learns, loves, and dreams of the house she will someday have, her own house, not on Mango Street. -- For great reviews of books for girls, check out Let's Hear It for the Girls: 375 Great Books for Readers 2-14.
--This text refers to the Turtleback edition.
&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&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"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
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