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The House on Mango Street | 
| Author: Sandra Cisneros
Publisher: Vintage
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
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Pages: 144
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Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.4
ISBN: 0679734775
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780679734772
ASIN: 0679734775
Publication Date: April 3, 1991
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Told in a series of vignettes stunning for their eloquence, bThe House on Mango Street/b is Sandra Cisneros's greatly admired novel of a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Acclaimed by critics, beloved by children, their parents and grandparents, taught everywhere from inner-city grade schools to universities across the country, and translated all over the world, it has entered the canon of coming-of-age classics.brbrSometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous, bThe House on Mango Street/b tells the story of Esperanza Cordero, whose neighborhood is one of harsh realities and harsh beauty. Esperanza doesn't want to belong--not to her rundown neighborhood, and not to the low expectations the world has for her. Esperanza's story is that of a young girl coming into her power, and inventing for herself what she will become.
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 The House On Mango Street November 19, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros was a very good and well plotted book. It was written by a pretty low educated hispanic girl who has a lot of clear feelings about herself and others. The book starts in Esperanza's childhood and gradually escalates to her teenage/adult years. Now since the main character isn't well educated you can tell by how random the book is. She moves from one topic to the other in a very abrupt random way. You can also tell that she is uneducated by the way she uses her punctuation. She has many sentences where the only thing she says is "Yeah." or "That's right." So as one can see, she doesn't have much of the proper schooling that one should have. Another main point of the story is the poverty she is raised in. She lives in an old brick house that is crumbling down and doesn't function like a normal house should. She grows up in a neighborhood that some people would call ghetto. It is a very poor neighborhood. One in which some are scared of the people that live there. Where the rich upper class people roll up their windows and lock their doors so none of the ghetto kids that has no money to provide the basics steels anything. The last thing is that Esperanza has very low self esteem. She is embarrassed to point out her house. She is also embarrassed about everything about herself and her appearance. So much so she even hates her own hair. So i thought The House on Mango Street had a very good and creative plot. Also that any one of the age 13 and up should read.
 poetry to my ears November 3, 2008
This is a beautifully written book about a girls who lives in a house on Mango street, a house that is far blow her expectations and a neighborhood she does not want to belong to. This book reads more like a poetic form in a novel. There's a lot of wonderful details about how some people in the neighbor hood live and their cultural nuances. The book captures a moment of a child's life very well.
gorgeous October 29, 2008
the novel is written in brief vignettes that read like poetry and combine to create a rich story. i've read it now in english and in spanish, and it is one of my favorite books of all time.
 ok October 10, 2008
br /The House On Mango Street written by Sandra Ciserno, it is a bunch of short stories or vignette. The whole story describes the thoughts, feelings, and memories of Esperanza, a hispanic girl living in the poor area of Chicago. She dreams to escape her world and getting a house of her own. At the same time, she grows up and starts to leave her childhood, while learning about the fears and dangers of the world she never knew of before. She finds out becoming an adult turns out to be a hard challenge.br /When we first started reading this book I thought it was going to be a depressing book about a family leaving in poverty. It was exactly that it did not appeal to me at all. The only thing that I enjoyed was Cisneros way of telling a story. The way she would describe some of these situations you felt you were right there with experonza. My favorite vignette was the one about how she visited her sick aunt.
 the house on mango street September 21, 2008
i remember having to read this in freshmen year of high school and i hated it. its a book about a depressing little girl who moves into this red house with her family and each chapter is just little story like things that happen to her. it was not entertaning at all, it was depressing and i hated this book. its not worth money OR TIME!
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