The House on Mango Street

The House on Mango Street is a book I highly recommended (which is why I focused my paper on it.) This book is great! I read it while in middle school, and recently again, and it just made me see life outside my small world. The book itself talks about a little girl who has moved to a new neighborhood. Esperanza, the main character and her family moved to a house on Mango St. in Chicago. The area of town is racially segregated and is not "a space all her own." Though this book is not a book persay, it is more like many stories all compiled together, that all connect somehow to make the story whole. All the things that Esperanza experiences while living at that house only give her more reason to want to leave (when she is older.) Though she understands that the possibility of her leaving is very slim, she still holds that thought in the back of her mind.

After reading Sandra Cinersos' biography I can't help but think that this book might have a reflection from the area in which she grew up in (also being from Chicago.) I felt like I could relate so much to this story being Latina and all. Although this story does focus significantly on the Hispanic culture I would recommend it to everyone especially to young girls.