![]() While exploring her world, Esperanza experiences the shame of poverty, the unfairness of racism, and the beauty of poetry and music.Īlong with chronicling Esperanza’s growth, the book’s vignettes also move through brief descriptions of her neighbors. These three, along with Esperanza’s little sister Nenny, have many small adventures in the first part of the book, including searching through a labyrinthine junk store and learning from an older girl named Marin. Esperanza makes friends with two other Chicana girls of Mango Street, Rachel and Lucy. ![]() Over the course of the year Esperanza grows emotionally, artistically, and sexually, and the novel meanders through her experiences with her neighbors and classmates. ![]() The house on Mango Street is an improvement over Esperanza’s previous residences, but it is still not the house she or her family dreams of, and throughout the book Esperanza feels that she doesn’t belong there. The story encompasses a year in Esperanza’s life, as she moves to a house on Mango Street in a barrio (Latino neighborhood) of Chicago, Illinois. The book is told in small vignettes which act as both chapters of a novel and independent short stories or prose poems. The House on Mango Street is a bildungsroman (coming-of-age story) of a young Chicana (Mexican-American) girl named Esperanza Cordero. ![]()
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