Friday, March 4, 2011
In the book House on Mango Street the author Sandra Cisneros writes this book in the case of Vignette’s. Vignette’s are like short story’s empasizing a certain point. In the Vignette’s My Name, No Speak English, Sally, and Raphael Who Drinks Papaya Juice on Tuesday all have something to do with Windows and the symbolic presence they represent in Esperanza (The main characters) life.
In the Vignette My Name the quote "She looked out the window" (pg.11) is representing that Esperanza “She” is the one looking out the window. In a lot of stories the representations of women sitting in the window is usually women looking for a way out. It’s kinda sad that women post up a chair by the window and hope for more. It’s kinda like when women are looking out of windows there dreaming but what there dreaming off is never going to come.
In No Speak English, they represent this by the quote "She sits all day by the window, and plays all the radio shows"(pg.77). Women who have lost their way or are confused, hurt, betrayed, etc. Sit by windows There somewhat of a looking glass of what there life could have been; if blah blah hadn’t happened to them.
Women who sit by the window really look at people and observe other’s lives and comment on every single thing that’s going. Either it is like they will sit by the window depressed/sad or over nosey. Raphael who drinks Papaya juice on Tuesday “And then Raphaela who is still young but is getting old from leaning out the window too much”, (pg 79). See a little bit after this quote the narrator (Esperanza) says how the Raphael locked Raphaela in her room because she was so pretty. Was does this do to a females’ self esteem-it makes her want to sit by the window.
For example Sally “and if you open the little window latch and Gage it a shove the window would swing open and all the sky would come in”, (pg.82). This is kinda like a metaphor that can help Esperanza’s self confidence if you open up the window’s and experience the world then you can better live.
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