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Title: The House on Mango Street


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The House on Mango Street
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Sandra Cisneros
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  • Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago in 1954, the
    only daughter in a family with six sons.
  • While she was growing up, her family moved often
    between Chicago and Mexico City, where her
    fathers family lived.

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  • Because she never lived in one place long enough
    to make friends, Cisneros turned to reading and
    then to writing as a refuge.
  • During college, Cisneros began to write about the
    lives of Mexican-Americans in the United States,
    drawing upon her own life experiences as
    inspiration.

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  • In 1984, she published The House on Mango Street,
    her best known work.

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The House on Mango Street is comprised of 44
short character sketches, or stories, called
vignettes.
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They are narrated by Esperanza, a 14 year old
Mexican-American girl, who just moved with her
family to Mango Street, in the barrio
(neighborhood).
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Esperanza hates their house on Mango Street
because it is not a real house, like the ones
shes seen on TV.
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SPANISH TERMS
  • A las Mujeres To the women
  • Abuelito grandfather
  • Chanclas old shoes good for nothing
  • Comadres female friend
  • Esta muerto He is dead.

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  • Frijoles kidney beans
  • Los espiritus the spirits, ghosts
  • Machismo male chauvinism
  • Mamacitalittle mama

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  • Merengue weak person type of dance
  • Tembleque variation of trembler, which means to
    tremble or shake by adding que to the end,
    Rachel makes the name of a dance, like meringue
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