The House on Mango Street

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The House on Mango Street

• Important Information

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Themes-universal ideas explored in a literary
work.

• The power of language
• The struggle to define ones self
• A womans responsibility to protect and support
  other women

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Motifs-recurring structures, contrasts, or
literary devices that can help to develop and
inform the texts major themes.

• Names
• Falling
• Women by windows

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Symbols

• Shoes
• Trees
• Poetry/writing

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Point of View

• First Person
• Esperanza focuses on her day-to-day activities
  but sometimes narrates sections that are just a
  series of observations. In later vignettes
  Esperanza talks less about herself and more about
  the people around her. In these sections she is
  never fully omniscient, but she sometimes
  stretches her imagination to speculate on the
  characters feelings and futures.
• Mostly told in the present tense

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Tone

• Earnest
• Hopeful
• Personal

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Main conflict

• Esperanza struggles to find her place in her
  neighborhood and in the world.