Home Vs. Opportunity: The House On Mango Street

accepts finally Mango street as part of her identity but does not want it to be her only recognition. In the final chapter E. finally believes she belongs at Mango street and accepts her roots,”But what I remember most is Mango Street, the house I belong but do not belong to…One day I will pack my bags of books and paper. One day I will say goodbye to Mango. I am too strong for her to keep me here forever… Friends and neighbors will say, What happened to that Esperanza? … They do not know I have gone away to come back… For the ones who cannot" The House on Mango Street 109- 110).E.

At the beginning of the book, Gilly would have loved that but when she moved away she understood that it was not what she needed. She finds disappointment in her new life and realizes what a great time she had with Trotter, William Ernest and Mr. Rudolph. The Great Gilly Hopkins is a book to reflect on. The characters and the whole story stick to your mind after finishing the book. The author accomplishes to transform Gilly into a real girl who cares about people; people who became her family and who had unconditional love for her.

By the end of the vignette Esperanza meets with one of her older friends Alicia, who is in college, where she states that she wishes to have a home and belong there just like Alicia does. Alicia the replies “Like it or not you are Mango Street…”(chapter 44) and tells her that she has to come back for the ones who are still here. In the end Esperanza is still set on leaving ,but has realized and taken in what Alicia had said and decided that even though she will leave Mango Street, because she is too strong for it and won’t let it break her. She intends on coming back to save the people from themselves as

She dreams “One day I will pack my bags of books and paper. One day I will say goodbye to Mango. I am too strong for her to keep me here forever” (707). Esperanza believes that she can change the way she is living and live a better life. She is trying to get a good education to become a more improved and intelligent person so one day she does not have to be poor.

Now she knows her true home. Esperanza’s writing will express all of her emotions. Esperanza will one day leave Mango Street for a short time, however she will one day go back by writing about Mango Street. “I put it down on paper and then the ghost does not ache so much. I write down and Mango says goodbye sometimes.

Malala employs pathos so that the reader could feel where she is coming from. As a result, she wants the reader to know that education for girls is a very imperative thing. By using vigorous pathos, she gets the reader to fathom that a girl’s education is important and meaningful to them. In the bibliography “I Am Malala” by Malala Yousafzai, the author mentions “Then, when she said I would have to leave my school books behind, I nearly cried, too. I loved school, and all I cared about were my books”.

For example, she did not have to pay taxes or any bills. She can live in her own small world. In addition, she is perverse because she thinks her own small world is a reality and does not want to face the real world. For instance, she did not allow the mailbox and metal numbers to be attached to her door. Additionally, she never paid

At the beginning of the story, Mamaine-Nainaine tells Babette, she is not allowed to visit her cousins until the figs have ripened. In this case, Kate Chopin indicates that “the ripening of figs had the least thing to do with it” (25). Notably the reason Mamaine-Nainaine wants to wait is to give Babette time to mature into a young woman who has entrustment to carry a message to her cousins. When Mamaine-Nainaine says “you will carry my love to them all down on Bayou-Lafourche” (26), indeed she has finally entrusted Babette to carry an important message. Secondly, the theme of maturity displays through the vivid imagery Chopin provides.

Women did not have the opportunity to go to college, graduate and get a job. Most women stayed home and watched the children while the men supported the family. With women not working this made it hard for them to get enough money to leave their husbands and support themselves and their children without their husbands. The story "The Chrysanthemums" shows this aspect in the women life back days. Elisa the protagonist of the story was a married woman with no children but she only took

Moreover, she refuses to have a physical relationship with him, even in her diary. She cannot, even by imagination, defy the social restrains that are forced over women during that age. In fact, Marion 's diary writing proves that she is confined in the gender role that is previously set to her by the dominating patriarchal

The Glass Castle suggests that in order to have a successful life you will have to make a huge sacrifice and learn from yours or other mistakes. Jeanette learns that for her to be successful she needs to leave her parents and her sibling behind. She chose to learn from the mistake of her parents and she took a huge risk in leaving her home, her family and moving to New York to make sure that she doesn’t become like her parents. She didn’t want to make the exact mistake that her parents did when they were in her position. Just like in the Glass Castle when Jeanette mention that if she continues to live with her parents she‘ll eventually adapt their way of

It has been stressed throughout the novel that Esperanza was destined to move away from Mango Street. Feeling trapped and unable to the identify herself, she had big hopes to move to a house that she could call her own, where she could fulfill her writing career. Growing up Esperanza had always felt like she didn 't belong on Mango Street. She struggled to find herself and accept that Mango Street was her home. There was a bigger world out there and she aspired to discover just what this new world could do for her.

“You are debating that or state?” Liz asked. She feels once she goes to the college no one knows her at and her friends will leave her and never talk to her. Also she feels like she will make a mistake and people will think she is not perfect. Before going to prom Liz and Monica go look for a dress and Monica states, “I really like it”. She is understanding that she can like things on her own and it doesn’t matter what other people think about

Janie 's marriage with Jody showed her how to gain her self confidence and stand for what she believes. Hurston explains, “That night he ordered Janie to tie up her hair around the store… she was there for him to look at not the others.” Janie 's beauty was always a mark of distinction; Jody binding Janie 's hair was one way that Jody showed ownership of Janie. Janie’s idea of love was for it to be natural like a pear tree, but Jody was stifling the growth of the tree and their love. Later on in the chapter Janie finds her wings when Jody dies: “She did not reach outside for anything , nor did the things of death reach inside her to disturb her calm.” Janie hides her joy by ironing her face with starch to show no emotion. Jody’s death was Janie 's next step in her long quest for her true self.

In life,people work for one thing,freedom.the main character in the house on mango street proves this statement,throughout the book she has earned for a home of her own and to be rid of mango street,"One day I will say goodbye to mango.I am too strong for her to keep me here forever.One day i will go away . "pg.101, Cisneros portrays this many throughout the book like in this quote "[Mango street]set me free. "pg.101.Though,in the book the theme is rarely clear,the evidence is clear that the main theme is freedom vs.entrapment,"I never had a house ,not even a photograph...only one i dream of. "pg.107 because many characters have yearned for their own freedom entrapment,and the fact that many times freedom in this book is another entrapment this