Unlike us, the disappointment for Esperanza lasts throughout her childhood. Esperanza longs for a better life, but she has to face the harsh reality of the "real world." Esperanza has always dreamed of living in a house all her own. Her house would have “indoor plumbing, white shutters, a picket fence, and a nice neighborhood” (Cisneros 318). Esperanza never got any of these things.
Their dream house would have running water, working pipes, and real stairs like the ones on T.V. The house would also have a washroom big enough to accommodate her big family. The outside of her dream house is white with a big unfenced yard and with trees. While her family describes their dream house, Esperanza remembers her house is the polar opposite, tiny, falling apart and without a yard. While realizing
Her family moves around a lot and finally into a house of their own. Not the house that Esperanza wants. The houses are close together in the neighborhood. Theirs is red with crumbling brick, no front yard, one washroom, and everyone must share a bedroom with someone else. Esperanza, being in her adolescence, needs her own space.
It takes pride in the house you live in to be able to say “home is where the heart is”. Always on the move, Esperanza was settling into a new house before she even got used to the one she just moved out of. Her house on Mango Street wasn’t much more of a home than the rest of them, according to her standards. With no landlord to collect rent, no one they had to share the yard with and they could be as loud as they wanted, it was somewhat of an improvement, however. For once that house was actually theirs, with no disturbances.
Thus meaning God has a place for her later on and it should not matter that her house is gone. Bradstreet trusts God and his sagacity. An additional example Bradstreet adds to her poem that makes it more puritanical, is her belief that God makes everything happen for a reason. Towards the end of the poem Bradstreet acts more pragmatic about the situation. She starts understanding she did not own her house or anything in it, God did.
April is a housewife and while Frank is at works, she takes care of the house and the children. Her dream was to be an actress, but after meeting Frank and having their first child, she had to give up that dream and replace it with a quiet life in the suburbs. She does not seem happy with her new life, she wants to do and be more than just a wife and a mother and, unlike Frank, she does not hesitate to give up the suburban life for a new one in Paris when the opportunity arises. Like Frank, April is a dreamer, but she is also realistic and aware of how things really are - and how to change them - but she is eventually held back from living out her dream because of Frank. We are shortly told how Frank and April
Jeannette Walls’ The Glass Castle is a perfect example that not everyone from an unbalanced home fails as an adult. Mrs. Walls lived a rough life until she moved to New York and found herself. Mrs. Walls grew up in a family that did not take responsibility serious and did not have an adult for a role model in the house.
-SHORT INTRO OF THE MOVIE ON A WHOLE- The main difference between Songlian (the fourth wife of a rich landowner) and the three other spouses was that she was educated and had been married against her will. After that marriage, her whole world is reduced to one small compound, and the only people she sees are her husband, his family, and their servants. Though she is given a maid named Yaner, she doesn't get along with her. She finds her new home to be a cheerless place, despite all the bright colors that paint the inside walls. It is the master's tradition to light lanterns outside the house of the wife he intends to join each night.
: Seduction, Space, And A Fictional Mode" by Christina Marsden Gillis focuses on a lot of her pointing out why home is significant to Oates in her story, "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?". Connie is the character that Gillis discuss in the article. Christina Gillis did an impressive piece of work on expressing the importance of Joyce Oates' thoughts of there is no place like home and nobody like family and how these two matters are taken for granted and it gives the readers something to think about. Christina Gillis states that "the domestic space, the state of childhood associated with the home, and of course, the individual consciousness (Gillis)." This perspective leads back to where and what is most important to a child.
Christina Zamora The Mailbox and the Breeze She was a young girl who lived with her mom alone in a house on the corner of a isolated street and desired nothing more than to become visibly seen from someone other than just her mom. She was a girl who hides in her room while it rains. She slept. She read. She did anything that didn’t involve social interactmeant.