the house on mango street

When growing up, every child dreams of living in a bigger and better house than the one in which they are living. This is also true of the narrator in The House on Mango Street. Throughout her childhood, her family has moved multiple times. As a child, she watched television and dreamed of what it would be like to live in a house like that. With a promise from her parents, her dreams are affirmed that they will one day live in her ?dream house.? Each time the family moved, a new person would move in with the family. With the addition of each person, the narrator?s dream of having a ?dream house? was diminished a little more.
The house on Mango Street is far from the narrator?s dream. It is a small one-bedroom house with one washroom for the six people living in the ho...