The House On Mango Street
Beginning of paper
Mango Street is a deceptive work. It is a book of short stories—and
sometimes 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." That story is told in
....
Middle of paper
.... of individual identity and communal loyalty,
estrangement and loss, escape and return, the lure of romance and the dead
end of sexual inequality and oppression.
The House on Mango Street is also a book about a culture—that of Chicanos,
or Mexican-Americans—that has long been veiled by demeaning stereotypes and
afflicted by internal ambivalence. In some ways it resembles the immigrant
cultures that your students may have encountered in books like My Ántonia,
The Jungle, and Call It Sleep ....
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Word count: 496
Page count: 2 (approximately 250 words per page)
