"The House on Mango Street"

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The paper relates that "The House on Mango Street" is a brief and apparently very simple story, told in the innocent voice of a school-girl who describes the house to which she and her family have recently moved. The paper portrays how the story hides very important meanings about identity and society. The paper illustrates the self-awareness of a girl in a world in which she feels she can choose neither her own space nor her identity. The paper shows how the child narrator serves the purpose in demonstrating the conflict between the personal, private world and the social world.

From the Paper:

"The school girl begins by telling us of the new house on Mango Street which will be the residence for herself and her rather numerous family, made up of six people. As she informs us, the new house is the first house the family has really owned, after having moved around for a long time from one rented place to another. She talks about the old, dilapidated buildings in which her family lived before and about the new house, which, although their own, is again a disappointment. As opposed to the other ramshackle buildings, the narrator describes the dream house that her family had been fantasizing about for a long time: it should have stairs inside and not on the hallway, three washrooms, a basement, it should be white and surrounded by trees, and have a big yard in front."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Sandra Cisneros- The House on Mango Street

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