Simile In The House On Mango Street

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Does it always feel good to be you? Not always, when something is going wrong, or you’re just not comfortable with yourself. In the story The House On Mango Street, Esperanza feels the same way about herself. She doesn’t feel comfortable with her name compared to her personality. The theme of this story is to except yourself for who you are. In the story “The House On Mango Street” The author states the theme indirectly being, you’ll never truly be living until you accept yourself for who you are through the use of a simile. In the story Esperanza doesn’t like her name because it doesn’t fit her personality. “I would like to baptize myself under a new name, a name more like the real me”. This means she doesn’t feel like the name fits who she
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