B. The house on Mango street is a story told by Esperanza, a Mexican-American female that comes from a low socioeconomic status and is moving from place to place until she lands at the house on Mango St.This is where she starts narrating stories of neighbors and her siblings in this particular neighborhood. Esperanza puts special attention and an emphasis and women in her community. She recognizes the struggle of women having to stay home and take care of their kids. She even mentions that her mom wants her to keep on going to school because her mom never got the chance. She starts the book by saying that she doesnt really like her mane because “Esperanza” means hope in English and she doesn’t like the connotation behind hope. This is also a book in which Esperanza is transitioning from childhood to adolescence and is trying to find an identity and discover who she is. It's a really “real” book in which she is also ashamed of being poor and faces this struggle like any other would
C. This book hits many important topics that are important to me and that identify. I am a women, I am Mexican-American and I come from a lower socioeconomic status. For me her same struggles I also faced. I still faced today trying to go to college and being a women. I was told why I wanted to go if I would just end up getting married and staying home and taking care of the house. It is not my fault my culture thinks like this, but even if they do I still don’t care. They still haven’t believed that I’m almost done with school. The house on Mango St. allows for me o show my students the struggle of being a woman in the Hispanic community without having to tell my story. I believe this book is very realistic and relatable because “machismo” is something that happens in other cultures as well and not only in the hispanic community. This book also serves in expanding the knowledge and being able to allow students to identify what Latino’s value and what they consider important.
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