The House on Mango Street

Told in a series of vignettes stunning for their eloquence, The House on Mango Street is Sandra Cisneros's greatly admired novel of a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Acclaimed by critics, beloved by children, their parents and grandparents, taught everywhere from inner-city grade schools to universities across the country, and translated all over the world, it has entered the canon of coming-of-age classics.

Sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous, The House on Mango Street tells the story of Esperanza Cordero, whose neighborhood is one of harsh realities and harsh beauty. Esperanza doesn't want to belong--not to her rundown neighborhood, and not to the low expectations the world has for her. Esperanza's story is that of a young girl coming into her power, and inventing for herself what she will become. more

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Posted: Aug-28-2009

House on Mediocre Street

Sandra Cisneros would deserve an A + for this book---if she'd written it as a 7th grade English student. A worthwhile book by a seasoned writer, though? Meh."House on Mango Street" has, however, been absorbed into the canon of American literature, not on any artistic merits, but because of its...

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Posted: Aug-22-2009

Must be good for poetry loving adolescent girls

I read this book as it was required summer reading for a local high school.WHAT?This book is a collection of short vignettes about a girl growing up in a Hispanic family. Perhaps this is of interest to SOMEBODY but not this middle aged man nor most teen boys. I felt like I was trapped in a...

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Posted: Jun-21-2009

This book will always hold a place in my heart

This book was assigned reading in my Junior English class, over 10 years ago. For some reson I couldn't put it down. I absolutely loved it. Even though my childhood was different than Esperanza's, I still felt that I could relate to some of the themes in the book. This book had a bigger emotional...

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Posted: May-30-2009

Never got product or refund

This is the confirmation I got: "available to ship by April 30,2009".It is May 30th and I don't have the book yet. I contacted the seller twice. No response the first time, then on May 27 he wrote to say that he had not shipped the item yet! This is a book I needed for a class I attend 4 times...

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Posted: Apr-22-2009

A book to be borrowed not bought

The House on Mango Street is dedicated to 'las mujeres'. However, stories of the life of women (and the main character, Esperanza) on Mango street are superfluously written, punctuated with goofy stream of consciousness narration and misplaced metaphors. Seems as if Cisneros uses her Latino...

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Posted: Apr-02-2009

A tale of its time

If my son finds this book on his required reading list some day, I know exactly what his reaction will be: What the hey?!? He's never had the slightest interest in any children's book with a Caldecott or Newbery medallion on the cover. I doubt that his aversion to literary fiction will change as...

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Posted: Mar-31-2009

book review

Cisneros wrote this book describing the memories and experiences of a young woman named Esperanza, who grows up in a Latino neighborhood in Chicago. Esperanza as well as other boys and girls live their life in the small containment of Mango Street. The book shows how Esperanza goes through...

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Posted: Dec-03-2008

Jenny's seventh grade review

" In English my name means hope. In Spanish it means too many words. It means sadness. It means waiting." Esperanza has always lived in places she feels like she doesn't belong. She wants her own yard, no breaking pipes, and no landlords getting mad because of the noise level. She wants a house...

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Posted: Dec-03-2008

victoria's opinion

"I would like to baptize myself under a new name more like the real me, the one nobody sees." Esperanza doesn't like her name, but over time she learns what it means and that it has a story behind it. Esperanza is a seventh grade girl who has experienced a little too much action for her age....

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Posted: Dec-02-2008

mattie's opinion

Esperanza's life isn't perfect. She lives in a stinky old house on Mango Street in the bad part of Chicago, and doesn't have many friends. Her parents don't really care about her, and she has a really hectic life. Esperanza just wants to get out of that old house and have a "normal" life like...

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