THe House on Mango Street Analysis

The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros, is a touching novel that is a sophisticated combination of fiction, non-fiction, biography, and poetry. The author uses Esperanza, the main character, and her experiences, to represent her own original personal challenges during her childhood as a Latina schoolgirl. Cisneros, who personally endured the feelings of alienation as a minority, the degradation that is inevitably associated with poverty, along with the ordinary path to growing up, molds Esperanza to re-experience her childhood. The aut...