The House on Mango Street
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Average rating3.6
Added to listFiction Reads with 3 books.
Really excellent! Left me wanting more
Really excellent! Left me wanting more
"You can never have too much sky. [...] Here there is too much sadness and not enough sky."
Reading Sandra Cisneros work was a real treat. It was the “light” reading I was looking for though, at the same time, so rich and full of cultural meaning. I didn't know The House on Mango Street was poetry in prose until I started the book, and it was an entirely different experience than what I had with my last (and first) book of this style.
This is the story of Esperanza and her dream house: all the experiences she lives, the people she meets and the lessons she learns on the journey to finding it.
“In English my name means hope. In Spanish it means too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting.”
“Shame is a bad thing, you know. It keeps you down. You want to know why I quit school? Because I didn't have nice clothes. No clothes, but I had brains.”
“The father wants his daughter to be a weather girl on TV, or to marry and have babies. She doesn't want to be a TV weather girl. Nor does she want to marry and have babies.”
"You can never have too much sky. [...] Here there is too much sadness and not enough sky."
Reading Sandra Cisneros work was a real treat. It was the “light” reading I was looking for though, at the same time, so rich and full of cultural meaning. I didn't know The House on Mango Street was poetry in prose until I started the book, and it was an entirely different experience than what I had with my last (and first) book of this style.
This is the story of Esperanza and her dream house: all the experiences she lives, the people she meets and the lessons she learns on the journey to finding it.
“In English my name means hope. In Spanish it means too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting.”
“Shame is a bad thing, you know. It keeps you down. You want to know why I quit school? Because I didn't have nice clothes. No clothes, but I had brains.”
“The father wants his daughter to be a weather girl on TV, or to marry and have babies. She doesn't want to be a TV weather girl. Nor does she want to marry and have babies.”
