House On Mango Street Monologue

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“There must be more money. There must be more money.” However, no matter what the family does there is never enough money. The mother and father’s tastes are incredibly expensive and their personalities are already corrupted by the high society they live in. A place where they are taught from birth that money equals happiness; a place where having the most expensive items is the most important thing imaginable neither their family nor themselves is enough to break this edict. When Paul’s mother tells him of the unluckiness of the family and her hope for luck, spurring the young boy to go on a journey of sorts to find the distant, desperate thing called luck. The way she speaks of luck to the boy makes it seem like in his mind it will end all their unhappiness; make his mother love him and end the voice that…show more content…
Her desperation for money, her corruption that has come from living in a society that believes terrible things had made it so that she - whether consciously or unconsciously, we do not know - screams, whispers and groans her wish to anyone in the house. I doubt she does it physically instead I believe she does it mentally, she is so far gone in her desperation that her deepest wish is on display both audibly and visibly. It has been stated of the mother, that she did not care for her children and so when she tells her son Paul of the situation she believes the family to be in, of their supposed lack of the luck. This along with the murmurs across the house begging for money spurs the young boy to take matters into his own hands. The boy is so desperate to please his mother and to gain her love that even when he has the chance he does not tell her of his luck. He takes pleasure in secretly giving her money and yet even then she is not satisfied, she still needs more, NEEDS to be at the top, to be better than her family and

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