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House on Mango Street Study Guide

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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• Summary and Analysis of The House on Mango Street-Gil's Furniture
• Summary and Analysis of Meme Ortiz-And Some More
• Summary and Analysis of Family of Little Feet-Elenita, Cards, Palm, Water
• Summary and Analysis of Geraldo No Last Name-Sally
• Summary and Analysis of Minerva Who Writes Poems-Linoleum Roses
• Summary and Analysis of The Three Sisters-Mango Says Goodbye Sometimes
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