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.

Set in Humboldt Park, "The House on Mango Street" is a coming-of-age story that shares one year in the life of Esperanza Cordero, a young Chicana struggling with questions of identity. Living in a Latinx neighborhood, Esperanza attempts to come to terms with her surroundings.

Our narrator is a young girl named Esperanza Cordero. For the most part, we see things from her point of view. Esperanza explains what her new house on Mango Street looks like, for example, and shares her personal feelings of loneliness and shame with us.

The House on Mango Street continues students' year-long study of what it means to be American, as it provides a nuanced picture of Mexican-American experience, as well as raising questions about what it means to be young and female in America.

By the end of the book, Esperanza is still in the same house, but she has matured and is confident that she is too strong to be trapped there forever. Her writing and story-telling lets her escape Mango Street emotionally, but it will also let her escape physically later through education and financial independence.

The author of this book is by Sandra Cisneros. The moral lesson that this book teaches you is that you always belong even if you don't feel like you do. The House on Mango Street isn't just an ordinary book. The reason why I saw that is because the book is divided into several vignettes.

A House of My Own depicts Cisneros's struggle for autonomy from the psychological, financial, and familial forces that might have made a writing life impossible. She relates how her mother's sense of not belonging influenced her: I became a writer thanks to a mother who was unhappy being a mother.

Esperanza Esperanza. The novel's heroine and narrator, an approximately twelve-year-old Chicana (Mexican-American girl). Esperanza is a budding writer who wishes for a home of her own.

Esperanza didn't always live on Mango Street, but that is where her story takes place. And the house on Mango Street is the first house her family has owned. "House is a symbolic image in the book that represents ideas like independence, pride, a stable life and dreams of a family.

Almost all of the major characters are women, and the protagonist's understanding of her own femininity motivates much of the story. Esperanza perceives beauty to be a major source of feminine power, and she admires and envies beauty in her female relatives and friends.

A House A Home Summary A home is another name for loving family members who take care of each other and work selflessly for one another. Brothers-sisters, fathers and mothers together make a home. It is their unselfish acts of kindness and sharing towards one another that makes a house a home.

The House on Mango Street is a bildungsroman (coming-of-age story) of a young Chicana (Mexican-American) girl named Esperanza Cordero. The book is told in small vignettes which act as both chapters of a novel and independent short stories or prose poems.