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House on Mango Street Roxy Brown ENG 311 Saint Leo University
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Introduction
The House of Mango Street is a novel that was written in the year 1984 by Sandra Cisneros, Mexican-American author.
The novel teaches more on the power of language and more so, the power of words.
Relegation is done to the bottom of the society for the members who can not speak English.
The author is determined and focusing to the young females who are in the school and tries to develop competence in them.
In the novel. It depicts on how females are criticized in the society and in turn posing a lesson to the other young females.
Feminist Criticism
In the novel, we are shown that, Esperanza being a young female in the school leaves the school to her own house.
In addition, she learns that lack of language is powerless as she acknowledges from her friend, Mamacita.
If I would ask, how does knowing or failing to know how to speak English affect ones living and dropping school?
Esperanza witnesses her young schoolmate females as they decide to drop school with little knowledge for marriage.
The reason for the young girls to get married is that, they only desire to escape abuses from their parents and in turn end up getting disappointments from their newly married husbands.
The Struggle for Self Definition
According to Espenzera’s point of view, she tries to look to the individuals within her surrounding and what she could note is that, the young females are convinced in a manner to marry them without the basic knowledge.
What control measures did Espenzera develop after getting to know the friends within her surrounding? What do you think was the main fear of Espenzera interacting with the boys?
In turn, Espenzera herself tries with all the struggle to find her place in the neighborhood and all she finds is void even in the entire world.
Therefore, the other females who did such made the worst decision on getting married to the males who lacked the real language hence developing conflicts in their marriages.
Autonomy Vs Sexuality
In the struggle to leave the neighborhood by Esperanza do not bear fruits with the reason that, as she grows mature, she too develops the desire for males.
Esperanza decides to admire the neighboring boys and as well develops the concept of being cruel and beautiful hence developing autonomy.
Do you think that Espenzera had feelings towards the male life and interaction? Assuming that you were one of them, how would sustain such situations?
Through the insults, she develops the knowledge that she would not be mature enough on proceeding with men. Therefore, she decides to live her own life with the concern of joining her less sexual friends who are Lucy and Rachel
Core Values
Espenzera respected herself and her community and chose a path that did not reflect her being a statistic in her community.
It is everyone’s responsibility to remove gender biases and respect boundaries.
Espenzera wanted to remove that lesson of misogyny of women that most men in their community was taught and instill respect In them instead.
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Audience Questions
Have you ever come across such a situation in person?
To the females, what are your views in relation to feminist criticism and what are the measures that you would take on such circumstances?
What makes it very essential that all the females in the mango street face similar life challenges?
The literary work depicts the American dream, most Mexican women desire and how difficult it is for them to achieve this goal. However, it is our responsibility as a community to be aware and educate ourselves on how to combat gender and cultural prejudice. As well as give everyone the respect they deserve regardless of who they are. how core value (responsible stewardship, respect ) ties in the literary work.
Conclusion
It would be of good state to have the young girls getting skillful knowledge in developing the proper language and skills.
The concern to enhance the proper strategic measures ensures the right evaluation to attain a better motivation from the community.
The girl child should have the right to attain a standard education and generate the best desires for a a bright future.
References
Cisneros, Sandra. The house on mango street. Vintage, 2013.
Kopala-Sibley, Daniel C., et al. "Self-criticism and dependency in female adolescents: Prediction of first onsets and disentangling the relationships between personality, stressful life events, and internalizing psychopathology." Journal of abnormal psychology 126.8 (2017): 1029.
Priewe, Marc. "23 Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street (1984)." Handbook of the American Novel of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries 4 (2017): 351.