"The House on Mango Street" Blog Post #1

Jasmine Contreras

"The House on Mango Street" by: Sandra Cisneros

Blog Post #1 Write-Alike:

      The scene in the book that I feel like I have a personal connection to is when a nun from Esperanza's school asked her "Where do you live?," and she pointed to the third floor where she lived. The nun responded by saying "You live there?". The nun had made it seem like where she lived wasn't worthy enough to be called a home or it didn't "look" like one to her. Esperanza wanted a house that could be pointed to, and no one would ask "You live there?". The way I saw this was that, as long as you have a roof over your head as shelter and protection, it doesn't really matter how you house looks like. Through out my life I have learned that society will judge no matter what you try to do. My mom has a pretty old car that she has had for quite a long time now, and I used to feel like these cars represented the way our family as a whole. When people would look at my mom's car especially, they would look at it repulsively and that made me feel like our family needed new fancy cars. The truth is as long it can take you from point a to point b, than that's all that matters. It might not be a new fancy car out of a magazine but, its still a working and running car. Esperanza desired a house that she could point to and call home, like I wanted my mom to have a car that I could point to and feel proud of. I connect with her because I have felt like this before and know what it's like to be Hispanic in the United States. I am lucky that I have, what I have.