The quotes above, explain that when Esperanza first heard that she was moving to a new house, she was very hopeful that the house would be a gorgeous home with more than enough room to accommodate her family. In the excerpts from the text above, the use of vivid imagery really strengthened the text because it helps us better picture what Esperanza pictured when her parents promised her a house she could be proud of and the imagery also really helps us be able to relate to Esperanza and feel her disappointment when she saw her house and was let down by what she saw. In the vignette “The House on Mango Street”, Cisneros states “They always told us that one day we would move into a house, a real house that would be ours for always so we wouldn’t have to move each year.”… “And inside it would have real stairs, not hallway stairs, but stairs inside like the houses on T.V.”… “īut the house on Mango Street is not the way they told it at all.” (4).

But as she spends more time living on Mango Street, Esperanza realizes that a community is not just one strong person leading everyone else, it is a group of special people who have different interest that come together to build each other up to make themselves stronger. She is also ashamed of her shabby new house and how her classmates see her as different.

Throughout the book, the main character, Esperanza, struggles against the feelings of shame and isolation that come with living in the neighborhood she moved to. She does this by composing each chapter as a vignette, which is a small chapter. In the book, the author is trying to communicate to readers what the main idea is by sharing some of her own life experiences and stories. The novel The House on Mango Street was written by Sandra Cisneros.

The use of vivid imagery, metaphors, and similes strengthen the theme of acceptance in The House On Mango Street. Even if you cannot relate to experiencing something like this, try to imagine what it must be like to have to start over with a new life. Have you ever been forced to move from one home to another? If you have, you know what it feels like to be uprooted away from everything you know and love, and move miles away to something completely new and unknown.

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