The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

“One day I’ll own my own house but I won’t forget who I am or where I came from”, she says. She decides that when she moves away from Mango Street she will always return to help her neighbors. However, the beauty of her dream is not egoistic. “People who live on hills sleep so close to the stars they forget those of us who live too much on earth” (Cisneros 94). She wants to be happy and she thinks “I want to be all new and shiny” (Cisneros 5). People cannot be deprived from their natural desire to break free from the problem neighborhoods. That is why it is reasonable for people to have a dream like Esperanza had. It is not surprisingly that her name is translated into English as hope.Įsperanza’s dream is model for a lot of people in the modern world as well, because, unfortunately, there are still unprotected social layers in our world and the emigrants’ environment represents one of them.

Her child dream of a beautiful house will eventually encompass in itself not only the desire to be wealthy but rather the wish to be independent and strong. Esperanza herself becomes the victim of the sexual abuse. Every day she observes the brutality of local men to women. Discussion of Esperanza’s American DreamĮsperanza wants to move away from the Mango Street because she wants to live a better life. Esperanza’s wish reflects the main idea of an American dream to be independent and prosperous. The girl decides that she will do her best to go away from this place and that one day she will have a house of her dream. “You live there? The way she said it made me feel nothing. After the conversation with her neighbor she becomes oppressed by the environment of the Mango Street and her house, in particular. However, the family moves to the house on Mango Street, the conditions of which are far from the image Esperanza dreamt about. The girl is told by her parents that one day they will live in a beautiful large house and their wandering will eventually stop.

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros