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    A look at The House on Mango Street by Cisneros

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    This research report includes various stories by this author. A comprehensive analysis is provided and a character analysis is included amongst other ideas. This five page paper has two sources listed in the bibliography.

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    Conversations and the physical structures in this book of short works, tell the story of the economy, the culture, and the physical conditions of the neighborhood. Bibliography lists 2 sources.  BBmngoSR.doc CISNEROS: The House on Mango Street Written by B. Bryan Babcock for the Paperstore, Inc., November 2000 Introduction The House on  Mango Street is a deceptive work. It is a book of short stories-and some times not even full stories, but character sketches and vignettes-that add up, as Sandra Cisneros has  written, "to tell one big story, each story contributing to the whole-like beads in a necklace." Conversations and the physical structures in this book of short works  , tell the story of the economy, the culture, and the physical conditions of the neighborhood (Zuercher ppg). The Neighborhood This is a neighborhood of the "other." It  is a place where a 10 or 11 year old girl realizes "the shame of being poor, of being female, of being not-quite-good-enough." The House The new house on Mango  Street which was supposed to be" the white house with trees a yard and no fence" (of the dreams her mother made up before tucking her into bed) ended  up being a house that was "crumbling in places, and the front door is so swollen you have to push hard to get in" (4). It is small house;  and when Esperanza compares it to a friends house she feels her own "...looking smaller still, our house with its feet tucked under like a cat." (22). Later she  discovers, that she does not want " a mans house. Not a daddys. (but rather) A house all my own." (108). Owning a house is more than the house 

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