Friday, March 25, 2011
I think that Sandra Cisneros book The House on Mango Street is her dedication, or going back to her old House on Mango street. She writes in the last Vignette of her book Throughout the book this character Esperanza travels a lot and lives in many houses, well not in the book. But before Esperanza comes to the house on Mango street; she hoped that when she came to that house it would be her house. Esperanza imagined the House on Mango street being that grand house; but it wasn’t.
Throughout the book she goes through A bunch of stuff that really carves out who Esperanza is, she has her first kiss, she learns about boys, she gains her friends, and most of all she realizes who she is as a person and what she wants to do in life. Esperanza does not like Mango street, and nothing that it brings with it.
So when she’s leaving in the last Vignette she said her own little goodbye to Mango Street .First she went to a fortune teller to try and fight what her future brings and she asked the fortune teller one thing Will I leave mango street? and when she asked this question she said it in her head, not out loud and the response to her question or the fortune tellers message was "when you leave you must remember to come back for the others" (page 105). That’s when Esperanza had her upbringing that she had to come back to Mango street.
“They will not know I have gone away to Come back. For the ones I left behind. For the ones who cannot out” (page 110). I think that Sandra cisneros book the House on Mango street is her coming back to mango, this is her dedication letter to mango. When you really think about it there both from Chicago, in the beginning Esperanza said she wishes she had a different name; maybe she changed it to Sandra Cisneros, and on top of that there’s this constant quote between writers, write what you know; Sandra Cisneros Knows House on Mango street. This is her coming back to the girls or people who couldn’t go to Mango.Sandra Cisneros is Esperanza.
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