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by Sandra Cisneros

House on Mango Street study guide contains a biography of Sandra Cisneros, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis.

The House on Mango Street traces Esperanza Cordero's coming-of-age through a series of vignettes about her family, neighborhood, and secret dreams. Although the novel does not follow a traditional chronological pattern, a story emerges, nevertheless, of Esperanza's self-empowerment and will to overcome obstacles of poverty, gender, and race. The novel begins when the Cordero family move into a new house, the first they have ever owned, on Mango Street in the Latino section of Chicago. Esperanza is disappointed by the red, ramshackle house. It is not at all the dream-house her parents had always talked about, nor is it the house high on a hill that Esperanza vows to one day own herself.

Esperanza is not only ashamed of her home, but she is…

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Posted By ann m #229679 at Feb 09, 2012 8:10 PM

what are some physical characteristics of the charactor marin?

The book the housr on mango street has a charactor name marin I need to know some of her characteristics

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Posted By jameela m #197535 at Aug 28, 2011 6:48 PM

what does esperanza mean when she says, "I have begun my quiet war"?

i don't get that part because they they were talking about being attractive before that

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Posted By marissa e #200515 at Sep 16, 2011 12:54 AM