Novel Notes - Diana Rocha

Plot Overview
About the Author
Esperanza is a teenage who moved into

a house on Mango Street with her family,
but at first she doesnt like living there.
She is a American - Mexican female who
doesnt have friends, but finds two new
friends who buys a bike in between the
three girls. She starts to grow up along
the story, she finds it good when boys
watch her dance and dreams about being
in a relationship. All that she wants to do
is to move out of Mango Street and live in
her own house. The story doesnt actually
reflexes on Esperanza, but on the people
that lives on Mango Street who
influenced her to write about them. Many
things happens, she drops out of school
to get a job since they cant pay for
school, she gets harassed on the first day
of work, and makes a new friend named,
Sally. Esperanza thinks that sally is very
pretty; prettier than her. Esperanza starts
to think that Sally is going to do
something, and she does. This ends with
Sally kissing a lot of boys in the monkey
garden and Sally then getting married
before 8th grade.
Sandra Cisneross life was something

like the main character of The House on
Mango Street, they both live an exotic life
in the United States. Born on December
20, 1954, in Chicago, Illinois to a family of
seven children. After finishing school, she
became a teacher to dropouts, an artistin-the schools in where she taught
creative writing at every level except first
grade and pre-school, a college recruiter,
an arts administrator, and as a visiting
writer. During her life as an author, she
wrote The House on Mango Street,
Woman Hollering Creek and Other
Stories, Loose Women, Vintage
Cisneros,Have You Seen Marie?, A
House of My Own: Stories From My Life,
and Caramelo. All her books had won
awards, and she is healthy living in
between the United States, and Mexico.
Historical Context
In 1984, in the USA, Ronald Reagan
becomes president and Cesar Chavez
makes his famous speech of farmers
workers.
The House on Mango

Street
Sandra Cisneros
Diana Rocha
15 Sep 2016
Essential Quotes
In English my name means hope.
You will always be Esperanza. You will
always be Mango Street. You can't erase
what you know. You can't forget who you
are.
Reflections
The House on Mango Street is a novel
that is writing in vignettes, in which a
female teenage find difference in living in
a place that she doesnt want. Soon she
finds many things that she didnt know
about living on Mango street.
Novel: The House on Mango Street

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Character Analysis
Themes
Esperanza: Is the main protagonist of

the whole storyline, in which she writes
about living on Mango Street. She writes
about why she hates and loves living on
Mango street. She also writes about living
outside of Mango Street and how it
affected her as she writes about her one
year experience on Mango Street.
Feminism is one of the themes in the

story. Esperanza is a women who didnt
get a lot of rights as a woman when she
was young such as the female living on
Mango Street. Many things happened on
that street that changes the mind of
Esperanza.
Sally: Is Esperanzas friend who gets of a

lot of boys. She gets married in another
state at the end of the story. She is the
one who teaches Esparanza about boys,
but gets her sexually assaulted at a
carnival. No one knows Sallys story as
much as Esperanza.
Nenny: Is Esperanzas little sister, at first
she doesnt seem as a character, but as
soon as you get deeper into the story she
is. She is the one the Esperanza stole the
money from to pay the bike, she is the
one is following Esperanzas footsteps
about living on Mango Street she would
be the one to hear what actually
happened to Esperanza in her own
Sexually is another theme since many

sexually thigs happens in the story. Such
as sally coming out, many of the women
getting sexullay assulted on the Mango
Street and Esperanza getting attacked at
the carnival.
Motifs and Symbols

Esperanzas name is a motif in the story
since she doesnt like her name at all.
She finds her name not the same in
English as in Spanish. She wants her
name to be Zeze the X instead of her
actual name.
Window is a motif that is usually used in
the story. Most of the females that are
married are always locked out in their
houses and staring out the window
because the the thoughts of their
husband thinking they might run away
from home.
A symbols is trees, Esperanza sees trees
as friends that she never had as she lives
on Mango Street.
Poetic is the main symbols of the story
since that is how Esperanza is writing in.
She shares her poetic with one of the
person that lives in Mango Street who is
getting abused by her husband and that
is how Esperanza writes it in. In same
poetic word that would get her out of

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Plot Overview

About the Author

Esperanza is a teenage who moved into

Sandra Cisneross life was something

The House on Mango

Novel: The House on Mango Street

Esperanza: Is the main protagonist of

Feminism is one of the themes in the

Sally: Is Esperanzas friend who gets of a

Sexually is another theme since many

Motifs and Symbols

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