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Sandra Cisneros provides a story of a young Latino girl, Esperanza, who dreams of distancing herself from an oppressive family and community network in the inner city of Chicago. At the same time, she knows she will never really be able to completely do so. And yet, this young girl achieves a certain redemption by affirming her female and creative self through her artistic expression. This essay will discuss this issue by examining certain parts of Cisneros's text, as well as the criticisms of Ellen McKracken and Julian Olivares. The paper will argue the thesis that Esperanza's story is very much about class liberation within a female perspective, yet that such liberation ultimately occurs within the artistic imagination of Esperanza herself.

Tags:house, mango, street

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This paper examines how Sandra Cisneros stands as one of the most formative Chicana writers of her generation. She has inspired many other Chicano novelists, poets, and essayists because of the critical and popular success of her first novel, "The House on Mango Street". It analyzes how, despite the book's attempt to give validity to a more positive view of Latin American culture as it exists in the United States, Cisneros's novel and her subsequent works have not limited their criticism of certain aspects of Hispanic life and reality, such as the inequality between the sexes.

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"The media itself is not all to blame, however. Cisneros believes that a girl, from birth, is raised with a different set of expectations in a Hispanic household. Within the common and accepted cultural framework, the father emerges as an unquestioned patriarch of the Latino household. Women's education is not valued on the same level as male education. Even girls who desire to better themselves through education are forced, because of cultural stereotyping, to assume care-taking functions that their brothers do not. Family relations inevitably affect the life of children in the school system when girls must do chores before their homework, or stay inside to preserve their safety and chastity, rather than wander where they might fall prey to young men."

Tags:hispanics, gender, chicana, mango, street

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"Salvador Late or Early" and "Mericans", both written by Sandra Cisneros, are stories that illustrate childhood experiences, narrated directly from the point of view of a child. This paper explains that despite all the similarities and differences, both situations in the stories can be combined to explain the same cultural situation. Both stories share elements of happiness, confusion and pain, and are intertwined with vivid descriptions from a child's eyes to describe objects and scenes to the reader. The paper concludes that both stories have themes of hope, belief and recognition.

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"In Salvador Late or Early, Salvador is a small, quiet boy who has no friends and comes from a very poor neighborhood, where "homes are the color of bad weather (Cisneros, 10)." Salvador's mother "is busy with the business of the baby (Cisneros, 10)" so it is his responsibility to get his two younger brothers ready for school, "feeds them milk and cornflakes from a tin cup (Cisneros, 10)," and "collects the hands of Cecilio and Arturito (Cisneros, 11)." All three of these statements illustrate Salvador's feelings of pain, confusion and maybe hope that things will be different in his life one day. Salvador is described as having "eyes the color of caterpillar (Cisneros, 10)," and his feelings as "its history of hurt (Cisneros, 10)." Salvador is not described in a very positive or flattering way, almost as though the he was a boy in the writer's class whom she did not like. This describes pain once again. In another example, Salvador's appearance is described as the "forty pound body of boy with the geography of scars." His pain is described are described as "in what part of the heart, in that cage of the chest where something throbs with both fists (Cisneros, 11)." Even though she did not like him, it seems as though the writer almost felt sorry for Salvador, in the way that she describes his poor living conditions, as "lives behind a raw wood doorway (Cisneros, 10)," and "in that vague direction (Cisneros, 10)." She may not have liked him because he was no one's friend and he was "Salvador whose name the teacher cannot remember (Cisneros, 10)." Salvador probably felt confusion as well, as there were no images of happiness that involved him."

Tags:happiness, confusion, spanish

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In this paper, the Hispanic feminism of Cisneros' The House on Mango Street has been analyzed in the main character, Esperanza. Through a critical analysis, the feminine identity here is the ability for women to internalize and reflect a unified feminist identity that can be attributed to race, but on a level that seeks a deeper meaning for women of all cultural identities. This is how these novel applies a first person narrative of young woman's on a journey into adulthood.

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This paper is on the topic of Sandra Cisneros. She is a famous writer that uses her background and culture in her writing of stories and poetry. One of her most famous stories is "The House on Mango Street".

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This essay discusses Sandra Cisneros' "The House on Mango Street" and how it deals with the theme of racism. In this novel, an individual attempts to understand her private self in a racist world. 4 pgs. Bibliography lists 1 source.

Tags:LITERATURE / AMERICAN LITERATURE, house mango street

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Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street, written in 1984, and Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, first published in 1970, are both aimed at adolescent audiences but deal with deep, often disturbing themes about serious social conditions and their effects on children.

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"Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street, written in 1984, and Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, first published in 1970, are both aimed at adolescent audiences but deal with deep, often disturbing themes about serious social conditions and their effects on children. Both books are told in the first person; both narrators are young girls, living in destitute neighborhoods, who witness the harsh realities of life for those who are poor, abused, and hopeless, although the narrators themselves manage to survive their tough environments with their wits and strength intact. The books are more than simple literary exercises written merely to amuse or delight their audiences; both authors attempt to provoke their readers to think about the social issues their novels present. This research will discuss the specific goals of each of these novels and the ..."

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" Sandra Cisneros, in her novel The House on Mango Street, portrays the American Dream as alive and well, although in a new and feminist form. If one means by that Dream primarily the opportunity to advance from a place of poverty to a place of economic success, then the Dream only partially applies to Esperanza, the book's protagonist. Esperanza does have material dreams as well as more artistic and spiritual ones, but even her material desires are rooted in her fundamental dream of being free from racial, social and sexual oppression, free to be her most individualistic and creative self. Despite the fact that her dreams are, indeed, self-oriented, they are not merely selfish but are part of her sense of commitment to a larger community.
Cisneros's novel covers a number of years in the life and coming-of-age of Esperanza, a young girl growing up in Chicago."

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In this article, the writer discusses the novel, 'The House on Mango Street' by Sandra Cisneros. The writer points out that this is a story about the typical struggles of a Hispanic family. The writer relates that it is a picture of the various problems that many Hispanic women face in society today such as domination by men, and notes that the novel shows how women are viewed as objects and rarely valued for what they think and feel on the inside. The writer maintains that Sandra Cisneros wrote this novel so that the reader may understand the struggles and feelings of the Hispanic woman. This paper discusses how Sandra Cisneros describes the true struggles of Hispanic women in the context of a fictitious story.

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"In 'House on Mango Street', women are viewed as objects by men regardless of whether they are boyfriends, friends fathers or husbands. The women are similar to the man's possession. The young girls in the novel grow up with the mentality that looks and appearance are the most important things to a woman and that what they think and feel on the inside is irrelevant. Another sample of this masculine possession is when Cisneros also shows how Latino women are expected to be loyal to their husbands, and that a husband should have complete control of the marriage. Yet on the other hand, Cisneros describes the main character; Esperanza as not being like the typical Hispanic woman. She is different. Even though Esperanza is born and raised in the same Hispanic culture as the women around her, she is not happy with it, and knows that someday she will break free from its ties, because she is mentally strong and has a talent for telling stories."

Tags:Esperanza, Cisneros, role, female

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In this paper, it is shown that both Marta and Esperanza are similar characters in relation to their cultural, familial, and feminist interactions within these novels. Both Benitez and Cisneros offer an insight into a female point of view of Hispanic life, and how these women behave within the societal constructs that surround them. The paper shows that in this manner, both these young women reflect behaviors and reactions to their families and cultural beliefs that portend differing results to their responses to these factors.

Tags:benitez, cisneros, hispanic