The House on Mango Street
by: Sandra Cisneros
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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 children, 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.
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 children, 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.
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- The House On Mango Street
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros was a very good and well plotted book. It was written by a pretty low educated hispanic girl who has a lot of clear feelings about herself and others. The book starts in Esperanza's childhood and gradually escalates to her teenage/adult years. Now since the main character isn't well educated you can tell by how random the book is. She moves from one topic to the other in a very abrupt random way. You can also tell that she is uneducated by the way she ... Read More
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- poetry to my ears
This is a beautifully written book about a girls who lives in a house on Mango street, a house that is far blow her expectations and a neighborhood she does not want to belong to. This book reads more like a poetic form in a novel. There's a lot of wonderful details about how some people in the neighbor hood live and their cultural nuances. The book captures a moment of a child's life very well.
Rating: - gorgeous
the novel is written in brief vignettes that read like poetry and combine to create a rich story. i've read it now in english and in spanish, and it is one of my favorite books of all time.
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- ok
The House On Mango Street written by Sandra Ciserno, it is a bunch of short stories or vignette. The whole story describes the thoughts, feelings, and memories of Esperanza, a hispanic girl living in the poor area of Chicago. She dreams to escape her world and getting a house of her own. At the same time, she grows up and starts to leave her childhood, while learning about the fears and dangers of the world she never knew of before. She finds out becoming an adult turns out to be a hard challenge. ... Read More
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- the house on mango street
i remember having to read this in freshmen year of high school and i hated it. its a book about a depressing little girl who moves into this red house with her family and each chapter is just little story like things that happen to her. it was not entertaning at all, it was depressing and i hated this book. its not worth money OR TIME!
- The House On Mango StreetThe House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros was a very good and well plotted book. It was written by a pretty low educated hispanic girl who has a lot of clear feelings about herself and others. The book starts in Esperanza's childhood and gradually escalates to her teenage/adult years. Now since the main character isn't well educated you can tell by how random the book is. She moves from one topic to the other in a very abrupt random way. You can also tell that she is uneducated by the way she ... Read More
- poetry to my ears This is a beautifully written book about a girls who lives in a house on Mango street, a house that is far blow her expectations and a neighborhood she does not want to belong to. This book reads more like a poetic form in a novel. There's a lot of wonderful details about how some people in the neighbor hood live and their cultural nuances. The book captures a moment of a child's life very well.
- gorgeousthe novel is written in brief vignettes that read like poetry and combine to create a rich story. i've read it now in english and in spanish, and it is one of my favorite books of all time.
- okThe House On Mango Street written by Sandra Ciserno, it is a bunch of short stories or vignette. The whole story describes the thoughts, feelings, and memories of Esperanza, a hispanic girl living in the poor area of Chicago. She dreams to escape her world and getting a house of her own. At the same time, she grows up and starts to leave her childhood, while learning about the fears and dangers of the world she never knew of before. She finds out becoming an adult turns out to be a hard challenge. ... Read More
- the house on mango streeti remember having to read this in freshmen year of high school and i hated it. its a book about a depressing little girl who moves into this red house with her family and each chapter is just little story like things that happen to her. it was not entertaning at all, it was depressing and i hated this book. its not worth money OR TIME!
