The House on Mango Street: Esperanza Sandra Cisnero’s The House on Mango Street, is a well-incorporated story told through vignettes, shorts sections that piece by piece fit into a puzzle and reveal a theme. This unique story is about a disadvantaged young Chicana girl, named Esperanza, growing up in a poor neighborhood where she feels she doesn’t belong. She doesn’t like what she experiences, and constantly searches for a new future. As Esperanza grows and changes throughout the book, she realizes that women in her culture are treated unfairly, and makes a conscious choice not to fall into the same trap as the women around her. Women all around Esperanza, such as Minerva and Sally, are held hostage, within their own acceptance of an unjust cultural fate. For example, Minerva is a young girl ( about Esperanza’s age ) who constantly prays for better luck, and a....

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