Analysis Of House On Mango Street By Sandra Cisneros

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“I don’t set out to be different, I set out to be me people think it’s different.” Lil Wayne expresses how he feels about his career. Meanwhile, this quote is saying that everyone is trying to be themselves whether people think it’s different or not. In House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros the motivation for those in poverty is dreams; therefore, those who struggle economically overwork those who are economically stable to obtain their goals and dreams. Cisneros uses her choice of words to display the attitude about how the characters feel about their dreams and goals.

Esperanza is a determined character by working hard and dreaming a lot to make it a better situation. (When Esperanza points out that she needs money

Alicia’s mama died for this reason Alicia has to take over the female role. Cisneros explains Alicia’s situation “ inherited her mama’s rolling pin and sleepiness, is young and smart and studies for the first time at the university” (Cisneros 31). The author demonstrates the choice of her words about Alicia’s mother has died and Alicia has to take over the role of her mother. However, she is really smart and studies at a university because she wants a better life. Esperanza then explains Alicia’s occupied schedule “Two trains and a bus, because she doesn’t want to spend her whole life in a factory or behind a rolling pin” (Cisneros 31). The author shows this by her choice of words again by Alicia taking two trains and a bus to the university because she doesn’t want to spend the rest of her life being the female role. Esperanza then says about her “[Alicia] a good girl, my friend, studies all night and sees the mice, the ones her father says do not exist.”(Cisneros 32). Cisneros illustrates the tone by Alicia studies all night long because she really wants to build a better life for herself instead of being dragged

Esperanza’s explains about Sally situation by saying “ Her father says to be this beautiful is trouble” (Cisneros 81). Cisneros uses tone to show that Sally was too beautiful that her father thought she was going to run away. Esperanza’s precedes to tell us how Sally is being held captive by her father. “She can not go out. Sally I mean” (Cisneros 81). Cisneros picks out specific choice of words when she says “ Sally I mean” to show how Sally is being trapped in her father’s house. Esperanza notices that Sally has changed and she wonders why as, she share her questions with the reader when she says. “You pull your skirt straight, you rub the blue paint off your eyelids. You do not laugh, Sally. You look at your feet and walk fast to the house you can not come out from” (Cisneros 82). In this quote, Cisneros utility of imagery helps provide an image in the reader’s head about the way Sally is seen through Esperanza’s eyes and how Esperanza could free her like prince charming saved rapunzel from her