Analysis Of Esperanza Come Back To Mango Street

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Claim:Esperanza really deals with the issue of whether she should come back to Mango Street after she is able to leave. Introduction: If esperanza has the choice to be anyone she could have been Lucy or like her grandma the wild horse of a woman, but she turned out great with her own house and no man to control her. In addition, In the chapter The Three Sisters ‘p.103” she has to remember to come back for the others. Also if esperanza leaves the people behind mango can't get any better because no one will help mango change. Next if esperanza did not meet the three old ladies she would have left sooner making bad choices. In addition, I believe esperanza is supposed to help the women from the men abusing them. Last Esperanza really deals with …show more content…

Next I think she's saying something about Friends and neighbors will ask what happened to esperanza and then they it said that she has paper and pencils. Also that tells me that she's going to write her thought and how she's a writer and she's writing about what happens in mango. Next I remember in the chapter Alicia and I talk on edna's steps. It said “know one is going to help people On mango street.” I think she brought the paper and books to write what happens on mango so people can read and help mango. At the end of all this I have a theory that she will write a book so people can come to mango and help make it Change. So I'm saying that she will help people leave Mango by getting someone big like the mayor or someone to help and that is how she will change Mango …show more content…

She will always be mango St and she's thinking she can forget things and Live near the stars and forget the people that live on earth. I know this because she hates her life and name because It doesn't suit her, she feels she needs something better like a new name and a different life. I think this is wrong because she comes at the end to be the hope the people can't leave mango need. Last Esperanza in the chapter The House On Mango St talks about all her houses, but mango is the place she has to fix because at the end she was writing this book and he is the hope. Reason 3: Also If Esperanza leaves, mango she's leaving her memories of her life that she loves. Also In The chapter Our Good Day page 14 Esperanza loves mango because she loves how how she has friends now and a new bike. Also in the chapter The monkey garden page 94 she shows how she loves it there and she loves playing there with everyone because it used to have a loud monkey. Next she remembers her good memory's like The four skinny trees, she says stuff like they define her show that she can grow on the outside isn't who she really is inside. Last she shouldn't leave mango because that tells who she

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