Esperanza has always aspired to find a way to move away from Mango Street and have a life of her own, free from the troubles of the tough life that she is living. She has seen other women and girls on her street try to get away from their lives using other methods, such as waiting for someone to whisk them away from their lives or to marry into a family or person who lives away to get out of the life they’re living in. Both of them don’t really get anywhere and end up with worse lives than in the first place. Esperanza actually has a major benefit compared to the other kids in her neighborhood; her parents are kind and loving and are willing to do whatever it takes, unlike Sally’s, to give their children a better life than the one that they are living in at the moment. Her mom tells her how she should have gone to school and that Esperanza should study hard in order to fulfill her dream of becoming whoever she wants to be and also give her parents the peace of mind that they are looking for in knowing that they gave their child a better life.
Her mother on the other hand, means so much to her, she doesn't want her to be alone. She decides to desert her dream, she still lives with Grandma, much like a dependant child, yet she knows Grandma would suffer from great loneliness without her” (Bloom, Harold. “List of characters in Lost in Yonkers. p67-68). Bella’s guilt caused by her mother’s fear of loneliness has left her short of any male relations.
She doesn't want that feeling and that's why she so desperately wants to move into a nicer house.She is an immature girl at first but later on throughout the novel she realizes the importance of family and heritage and completely changes her views on life. Esperanza first starts switching her views on what kind of house she wants in the short vignettes "bums in the attic." This vignette starts of with Esperanza's childish views of a house when she says "I want a house on a hill like the ones with the gardens where papa work." (Page 86) But as the vignette gets to a close she says something very meaningful and thoughtful. "One day I'll own my own house, but I won't forget who I am or where I came from.
June 16, 2014 Cultural Book Report The book that I choose to read was “The House on Mango Street” by Sandra Cisneros and it is a perfect book that covers many of the topics in class. The story is about a Latina girl named Esperanza Cordero who tells her story about growing up in a poor urban neighborhood. She tells the story of other people in her neighborhood and the struggles they faced along with her own. Esperanza is ashamed of her life and her families poverty situation and in many occasions she tries to hide the fact that she is poor, like saying she lived in another house. Puberty and being a women also caused a feeling of shame for Esperanza especially when she was abused by males in two experiences, one in which an old man forcefully kissed here and the other in which a group of boys raped her.
She didn’t enjoy her time spent there so why she was so willing to come back. Some people never get enough of the life they live even if it‘s bad . Its just like a women who is in a abusive relationship and we wonder why the never leave. Its because once someone adapted to a certain life style the desire for change is slim to none. The narrative made it clear that she didn’t fit in with the people in her town but feared leaving because that lifestyle was all she ever known.
Young girls dream about a wedding and having the perfect day that they have always wanted and find it to be a fairytale. Cisneros portrays her own life when she explains how she didn’t want to be married, and wanted to be independent, to escape the idea that her father placed upon her by saying that she herself should be married and become a housewife. She does escape, in the book as Esperanza, and in her own life by using writing as an outlet to leave. She exemplifies what a person living the life of Esperanza, could do to change the preset boundaries that a girl growing up in her situation could have and to have the ability to achiever their goals and
Addie wants to be a strong, independent woman but society prevents her from doing so. Addie is the most important character in this novel because she is the reason her family comes together but at the same time she is the reason why her family isn’t a close knit. She made known that she regretted her life, her children rivaled against each other for her love and she had hopes that were never meant to
She appears quite clumsy, acting like an adult inside the body of a child. She is chubby, wearing shabby clothes, use pink lipstick, and she simply looks like a girl, wanted to look like a grown up. She comes from a home with poor conditions. She lives with her father and her nasty teenage cousin in a small brick farmhouse, outside the village. Marie weren’t treated nice by her dad and her cousin, and she is described quite like a girl who’s living on her own.
This results in the evident theme of belonging and abandonment. Throughout this novel, the characters of Rayona, Christine, and Ida bring to life this recurring theme. Left behind by her Mom, dad, Father Tom, Aunt Ida and her peers, Rayona, the youngest of the three main women in the novel, experiences abandonment. During Rayona’s whole life, her father Elgin is barely there, pooping in and out whenever convenient for him. Feeling like she is not good enough, Rayona goes out of her way to get his attention and make him want to be with her.
Essay: Mother of the City “Where you live shapes your life.” These are the words of the main character, Douglas, in the short story, Mother of the City, written by Christopher Fowler. Douglas has grown up in the suburbs and he lives a fairly miserable and lonely life in a house with his aunt, Sheila. Douglas does definitely not like the big city, London, which not fit with the ideals of the big city girl, Michelle, who he falls in love with. Or maybe it’s just an illusion. Perhaps a picture of how much he really wants to get away from the suburb.