A Painted House Grade 10 Analysis

A house is not a home. A home is somewhere your heart feels content, a place where you feel safe. In fact, a wise person once said, “Home is not a place, it’s a feeling.” This particular theme of home appears several times during Sandra Cisneros’ novella The House on Mango Street. Cisneros uses indirect characterization to show that the main character, Esperanza, feels discontent with her house, and feels as if it is not really her home, because deep in her heart, deep in her mind, she feels that her home is somewhere else, and she feels lost.

Esperanza faces multiple conflicts in the house on mango street but the one particularly strikes her is how adult men see her as a women and how she see’s herself as a women. In cisneros house on mango street , Esperanza's faces with how adult men see her to how she see’s herself as a women . Men find her beautiful and attractive and manipulate her in various ways. She compares herself to multiple things in the neighborhood to figure out what role she plays as a women.

The Architectural Fantasy by Hubert Robert is an oil painting created in 1802. For an architectural painting, is displays much emotion through the use of color, line, and light. The painting does not utilize a multitude of colors but still is able to provide an exciting scene. Although it does not appear to be that large in the gallery, the work would actually be prominent if it were a standalone piece. The artist’s use of perspective, light, and color give the overall composition a balanced look.

Before we look at the different Social/Psychological Determinants of Health it is important firstly to define what a social determinant of health is. According to the World Health Organization (2017) “The social determinants of health are the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age.” These conditions are as a result of a wide range of factors that are ultimately governed by the way in which money, power and specific resources are shared at different levels including those at global, national and local levels. We have all been a part of and will experience different social determinants of health throughout our lives but it is the standard at which we experience these determinants that will ultimately lead onto them affecting our health or ultimately leaving us unaffected.

“The Front Porch” by Chester McCovey brings up how front porches aren’t used for socializing anymore and sit for a use of decoration. Front porches were the main social center in a house. Front porches connected a neighborhood. Front yards were used for kids to play, now it’s just another yard to decorate. Now people are out driving, sitting indoors in air conditioning, connecting on social media. As McCovey said: “So, a need or desire –to stay cool, to be entertained, to keep up with what’s going on – is replaced not be a different need or desire but instead by a new way of meeting it.” McCovey’s memory of the front porch reminded me of a place seldom seen anymore a genuine coffee shop.

Theme is the life lesson that can be taught in many different mediums, such as short story, video, ballad and many other mediums. Recently we read the short story The Ransom of Redchief and watched the movie Home Alone. Although one is a short story and one is a full-length movie they have the same themes. An example of a theme that would fit both would be Things don’t always go how you planned. This would be a theme because in The Ransom of Redchief because the kidnappers planned to easily take the little boy and get ransom for him, but they ended up paying to get rid of him. It would be a theme in Home Alone because the robbers planned to easily rob the family 's house while nobody was there but it didn’t go that way for them because they were arrested. Another theme for these mediums is crime doesn’t always pay because in The Ransom of Redchief

The House on Mango Street is minority literary work written by Sandra Cisneros. The novel tells about a girl named Esperanza who lived in a house on street named Mango. Actually, she desired her own House and not a rent-house when she should share the yard with the people downstairs and pay rent to someone. Through this work, Sandra Cisneros tried to show some problems felt by the main character, Esperanza as minority, whether as Mexican-American or as woman. This paper will analyze the problem of being a woman in Mexican-American community through some characters in the book ‘The House on Mango Street’.

In Madeleine Thien’s stories, “Alchemy” and “House,” from Simple Recipes, the protagonists, Paula and Lorraine, suffer life-altering adversity as a result of the selfishness of their parents. Selfishness permeates both stories. “Alchemy” explores the effects of the violent selfishness of Paula’s father, the impermeable selfishness of Miriam and her family, and “House,” the indulgent selfishness of Lorraine’s mother, as well as the occupationally-driven selfishness of her father. In both stories, families are shattered by desertion and misery that projects well beyond the stories themselves. There are no qualities of character or effective survival strategies presented in either story that might be considered hopeful against the wreckage caused

Dorothy Livesay was a leading Canadian poet with keen observation and ability to feel and express the precious moments of life. She was a prolific writer and won two Governor General’s Awards for Poetry. Livesay, right from her early years, was very much worried about the greed of mankind and wanted to stop violence against Nature and believed that we can survive only if we adapt to nature. Her early poems in Green Pitcher (1928) and Signpost (1932) deal with nature, personal and emotionally intense observations of a young girl on role of a woman in society.

Men treated women as second class citizens in society during the early 1900s. Even with the oppression of women in society in this time, many women have struggled to expand their roles, and acquire additional rights. From my perspective, the authors of these stories are indirectly trying to tell us how much oppression the women have been through during the time. “The Thing on the Doorstep” is a short story about a woman, Asenath, who is not in control of herself because her father, Ephraim, possesses her body after he is deceased. “The Yellow Wallpaper” is a short story about a woman who suffers from mental illness. The woman, Jane, was controlled by her husband, John, who told her what she should do during the day and prevented her from doing

Son House was a preacher who spent time in jail for murder from 1928 to 1929. He was born in the hamlet of Nyon north of Clarksdale Mississippi, and was the second of his three brothers. House was an American blues singer and guitarist well known for his highly emotional style of music. His father, Eddie, was a member of the church and was quite a heavy drinker. Nevertheless, Eddie still encouraged his family’s commitment to the church. The church Son visited in his youth was very strict and observant. They believed in the future, grace and ultimate redemption.

Throughout the entity of House on Mango Street, Esperanza shares her knowledge through stories from experience. Albeit, it is important for people to have first-hand experience witnessing and learning from events, people should be verbally taught and lectured. Esperanza’s dismissed race leaves her in a heavily disconnected neighborhood. Such circumstances result in a lack of interest in education and work. Without much else of anything to do, families are left primarily to themselves. These social boundaries create a sort of isolation limiting interaction between the classes. Each class becomes comfortable in their own environment, finding little reason to cross borders. This negligence creates tension adding to the distrust and wariness between

Sandra Ciseneros’ The House On Mango Street showcases a theme of confinement specifically towards female characters. Throughout the novel, Esperanza gives naive accounts of the isolated and trapped lives of a select few of her neighbors and friends. This recurring theme in the book is connected to the symbolism presented in liminal spaces, windows, and inside vs. outside.

We are all of us the product of our thoughts and opinions, in many varying degrees. As individuals, we are brush strokes from within that form a personality and who we are, followed by where we fit in to a society, how much that affects us and how much we affect that it. The painting being made by these brushstrokes is never quite finished and lies in a state of perpetual near-completion, allowing for changes, touch-ups, and tweaks. This unfinished portrait is sociological in nature, one that is fine-tuned through years of socialization into one’s society, culture, and sociological institutions. There one learns what is expected of them, what not to do, and what roles will be assigned to them based on race, ethnicity, and

An effective scene is where Arthur is reading through the documents at Eel Marsh House and he closes his eyes the camera angle is close to him and move slowly the woman in black is shown slowly approaching up behind him and as she goes past the mirror on the wall in the other room then she gets closer to him and then a shadow of her hand comes on his back, then the dog barks and he then gets up. The woman in black comes from the room from across the hall she is shadowed and the lightning on her is light to make her be seen but the surrounding area around her is darker shadowed. This scene is important to the film as it shows a full image of the ghost and gives an idea of what is going to happen in the scene. This gives the film an effective