Sandra Cisneros: The House On Mango Street

[sunshine_books]

Hello,

I recently finished reading the House in Mango street, a required book for school. After finishing the book I am totally clueless on what I just read.
Anyone know what House on Mango Street was actually about? Or was it just written on one level?

Thanks

 

[liv]

This isn't really an answer to your question, because when I read The House on Mango Street, I didn't care much for it, and therefore didn't read into what Ms. Cisneros was saying. This message is more about a short story that she wrote that I absolutely LOVE. Please read: Eleven

 

[dele]

That's a really sad story! Thanks for sharing it Liv. It really brings back elementary school for me. Elementary school was so awful, I wonder sometimes why people still force their kids through it.

 

[byelush]

i read the house on mango street when i was a freshman in high school for a creative writing class. i like her (sandra cisneros (sp?)) prose such as in the house on mango street and her poetry but not her novel. i can't remember all that much about the plot... i think it was bascially just a linear telling of the girl's 'growing up', but it was interesting because sandra had an odd/more interesting way of telling the story, the narrator had a beautiful way of thinking/expressing what was going on.

yeah... that probably didn't help you at all.

 

[Narika]

I just discovered this book about a year ago at Value Village- I really liked it, and found that her descriptions about what it was like to grow up in that neighbourhood were totally convincing. I guess that's all that it was about too, a coming-of-age-story.

 

[WoodenCoyote]

The House on Mango Street is about growing up in a bad situation, but never losing the hope that you can rise above it. Its also about poverty, ethnicity, and the role of women in Hispanic culture.