1. Before moving to the house on Mango street, Esperanza and her family had only lived in rental houses and apartments. Esperanza was embarrassed by her previous places of residence and did not feel a sense of “belonging” there. While living in the Mango Street house Esperanza can feel a greater sense of ownership and stability. She no longer has to share her building with other families or worry about disturbing her neighbors if she yells. The house on Mango street has a front lawn, and with it
House on Mango Street: No Speak English In "No speak English" there’s a woman called Mamacita. Mamacita is fat and doesn’t leave her house. Some people think that she doesn’t leave her house because she’s too fat. Others think that she doesn’t leave her house because of the stairs. But Esperanza thinks that she is afraid of speaking English. "No speak English" by Sandra Cisneros, gender and race plays a negative role in Mamacita's mindset and behavior about moving to America because she
In The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros the author, selected a unique structure and writing style for the text. The book is constructed from a variety of small stories also known as vignettes narrated by the main character Esperanza. This is definitely a different style from what we are accustomed to, yet it reminds me of poetry. It is easily readable and the simplicity of the text allows readers to focus on imagery. At the start of the novel, we meet a family living in the city of Chicago
officer in Moulmein, Burma. This experience occurred during the 1930s when the Burmese had a strong anti-European feeling. It commenced when the sub-inspector at a police station asked him to control an elephant who wrecked the bazaar, livestock, a house and ate fruit in the city. It`s mahout, the only person who can control it when it was in that state, was a twelve hours` journey away from the elephant because he went in the wrong direction. The elephant also broke its chain when its “must” was due
therefore new opportunities, which takes place in cross-breeding of cultures in terms of hybridity involving the rejection of past and assimilation of new values. In Brick Lane, Ali shapes a female character who transgresses boundaries fixed on her by her gender, culture, caste and economic status. Nazneen is determined by strategies of resistance, escaping from traditional space, using sexuality in order to move beyond restrictions imposed on her and thus renegotiating the space in which she actually resides