Question

The House on Mango Street deals with personal identity and coming into your own, but also shows how that personal identity is shaped by numerous social issues. Some social issues that the book deals with are ethnicity, gender, age, and economic class. Select 3 chapters and explain what social issue is being dealt with and how Cisneros depicts these ideas through the eyes of an adolescent. Make sure your response talks about 3 separate chapters, identifies one specific social issue that all three chapters deal with, and explains how Cisneros illustrates these ideas through the eyes of a young narrator. Use quoted evidence from the novel to support your answer (at least one quote per chapter). Your response should be about 2-3 paragraphs long.

Answer 1

The first chapter talks about economic instability, the fourth chapter talks about sexism, and chapter 22 talks about the difficulties of living far from home.

How do these chapters establish this in the narrator's view?

• In the first chapter, Esperanza, the narrator, has to move to a neighborhood with little infrastructure and a very small house.
• This change must be made because her family is having financial problems.
• Change makes everyone live with few resources, limitations, and problems.
• The fourth chapter highlights how Esperanza's grandmother was forced to marry a man she didn't want.
• This chapter highlights the lack of respect that women were subjected to in the Mexican community.
• This lack of respect prevented women from fulfilling their desires.
• Chapter 22 shows Esperanza's father receiving the news that his father, who lives in Mexico, has died.
• Esperanza's family is living in the USA, which prevented her father from having contact with his father, in his last days of life.
• This distance makes the sadness and grief even greater.

Although Esperanza is a teenager, the difficulties of living as a foreigner with few resources force her to have a very mature view of the society around her. At this point, we can see that Esperanza recognizes the problems of her family and her community in a very objective way and with thoughts away from childishness and innocence.

This underscores Esperanza's desire to seek a better future for herself and not live by what the community has established as right.

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