Esperanza, the main character of The House on Mango Street, explains her story of growing up and become more or a woman over the year span of the novel. She is made into who she is by her friends around her. She always seems to want more than what she is given. He longing though out the novel to move out of her home shows just how much she does not enjoy the life that she is living. She sees how others in her community are stuck in a society that they can never get out of. Her parents constantly say that they are going to move out of the home that they are in to a better one, Esperanza’s friend, Sally, even was married into a very unpleasant lifestyle. She knows she does not want to be sucked into the life that others of the community are a part of and that is why she is has such a strong urge to move away. She knows though after he incident with the boys raping her, she knows that she will always be connected to Mango Street no matter what. It will always be a part of her that she will never forget.
I did not feel that I really could relate to Esperanza’s experience but did enjoy hearing about her experience as a Mexican-American. Her culture is very important to her, like he name which means hope. It is a name that she shares with her grandmother which shows how important family is. Also, you see the side of how Esperanza is seen as a girl. She shows how different she is from her brother and how since he is a boy they do not know each other as well as she knows her sister. Esperanza does not want to be like the women though in her community who are very sexual and have a strong urge to have the attention of boys. She will not give into the lifestyle and that is why she wants to leave so badly.
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I agree that Esperanza wants to move away from Mango Street due to the way other women are treated in the neighborhood. However, I think she wants to leave because there is a negative attitude towards female sexuality and freedom. For example, Sally was a free spirit until she was married. From then on she was confined to the house, which is not indicitive of her character. In other words, I think Esperanza wanted out of Mango Street because she was not willing to settle for having her freedom as a woman to be taken away. She wanted to be able to express her sexuality, that's why she wanted out.
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