In The House On Mango Street Analysis

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In the House on Mango Street written by Sandra Cisneros, a unique style of writing is used to show various themes throughout the book. The abrupt and disconnected way Cisneros writes conveys a child-like mindset which contrasts the adult issues being discussed in order to show the theme of growing up too fast. Throughout the book, examples are presented to the readers of growing up too fast. Esperanza sees Sire and his girlfriend Lois. Often, she hears them “laughing late” with “beer cans” and such, and is warned by her momma, “Those girls are the ones that go into alleys”. Esperanza dreams of having a relationship like Lois, with “a boy around her neck and the wind under her skirt,” but then she realizes that Lois with her “big girl hands……show more content…
As they discuss growing into their hips, their conversation ends up morphing into a jump-roping-dance as,” Lucy begins to dance… It’s gotta be just so [says Esperanza]… [They] slow the double circles down to a certain speed so Rachel who has just jumped in can practice shaking it. “Then when Lucy pronounces she wants “to shake like hoochi-coochi” an all-out jump rope rhyming battle peruses. The syntax of this mostly grammatically correct, but short and filled with rhyme. The bellies the excitement the girls feel at growing up; however, the way in which this topic is being discussed is a paradox to the meaning of it. As Esperanza continues to tell her collection of stories a child-like state of mind is revealed, which is in direct contrast to the adult topics at hand; the diction and sentence structure aids this in showing the theme of growing up too fast. Through Sire and Lois and the telling of hips, we see the innocence of the mind, and the grown up body, and in Esperanza’s rape we are shown the loss of innocence; all are revealed to the readers through Cisneros sentence structures. How we choose to tell our stories, through syntax and otherwise, show our perceptions and mindset of the world around

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