Family In The House On Mango Street

Walls’ mother, Rosemary, is still homeless and living on the streets of New York after countless offers by her children to live with them. Homeless people become homeless for numerous reasons. Most undergo a few different big changes in their life conditions before they become homeless. According to the Homelessness Resource Center, “Personal histories and individual

Visual Display Assignment Victoria Liesel lived in Himmel Street with her foster family, at the beginning, I thought she was so poor, her brother was dead and her mother did not have the ability to raise her up, therefore her mother send Liesel to foster family and never contact with Liesel anymore. Along with my reading, fortunately, Liesel’s Papa loved her so much and although her mother Rosa always said some ungentle words to Liesel, but it still because of the love. Liesel also met a boy who loved her named Rudy, I believed it was Rudy to make her life more interesting. They became friends and accompanied each other.

After Dugard has her second daughter, Nancy has troubles trying to make them more like a true family. However, Dugard is not fond of this idea. She wrote, “He says it would be a good idea to bring us all together so we can all be a family for the kids if we start calling her ‘Mom’ and referring to me as the girls’ ‘sister.’ I don’t want Nancy to feel like she is an outsider. I just don’t want to call her ‘Mom.’ I have a mom. I love and miss my mom.

When Emily was little she had to stay with other people because her mom had to work. Her mother is persuaded to send her to a covalent home and Emily had a difficult time there because they didn’t allow any of the girls to keep personal belongings or "love anyone" (Olsen). After Emily came back from the covalent home, she became distant and refused her mother's attempts of comfort. A bright spot in Emily's life is her gift in comedy. The biggest obstacle for Emily would be not believing that she is helpless to the hardships life has thrown at

When Jeannette tells her mother: “I was too ashamed, Mom. I hid.” (page 5) she means this in two different ways. One being because she is ashamed to say her parents are homeless while she is not. Another is because she realizes that she felt this way during her childhood because there was a way they could have prevented it, but they chose not to. Jeannette is ashamed at times throughout The Glass Castle because of her parents lifestyle choice.

Similarly, Chayo had the same perceptions about where she lived too. Chayo looked at where she lived through the lens of her past experiences, which was revealed as to have been not as she longed for. We could see from “Bread” that she didn’t have very good memories of a place that the Italian man loves, causing her to dislike her community. On the contrary, these two particular parts of the novels differ because Esperanza expresses some pride for where she lives and feels safe in the House on Mango Street. “But we aren’t afraid.

The book continued to show the ignorance of some of those with better social statuses, who only believed the poor deserved what they got and that they were still needed in society. It is especially down to the point because it comes from Florent’s own sister-in-law, Lisa. “It would be wrong of you to put their happiness at risk. It’s only homeless people, who’ve got nothing to lose, who want to see the shooting start,” as Lisa says to her husband and Florent’s brother, Quenu. The book is critical of her not being brave enough to stand up to those in charge and that she is only falling into their trap.

Even though Jane grew up with three cousins, she still was always left out of their activities. It would not be inaccurate to assume that living at Gateshead was the worst part of Jane 's life. She was not loved, except by the house keeper; therefor Jane grew up desiring love and being included, and whenever she got the chance to play a vital role into someone 's life that she cared about, she made sure to latch on to it. We see a proof of this whenever Jane is hated at Lowood and is shunned, Jane said "If others don 't love me, I would rather die than live- I cannot bear to be solitary

… They do not know I have gone away to come back… For the ones who cannot" The House on Mango Street 109- 110).E. does not want to be only defined by mango Street but wants to be known as a writer that came from M.S.. She is confident about her future and what she wants to be and will not let anything restrict her from her dreams. The sisters help her realize the importance of her roots. This makes her want to come back and help those who are not able to leave. At the end of the novel E. accepts M.S.

This incident shows the reader that she wants to be taken seriously by her colleagues. It also displays that Hilly deeply treasures her reputation because of her reaction towards the situation. On the other hand, Aunt Alexandra has also shown the reader signs that she values her family’s reputation. In chapter 23 of To Kill a Mockingbird, Aunt Alexandra did not allow Scout to play with Walter Cunningham because of his poor background. She said, “Because-he-is-trash, that’s why you can’t play with him.