Compare And Contrast The House On Mango Street By Sandra Cisneros

The House on Mango Street is a book that Sandra Cisneros wrote. In the first chapter, she wrote about her small house on the Mango Street. A similar author wrote a vignette, “My vacation about my first time going to Mexico”. This is a vignette of a student at Carolina High School. The purpose of this essay is to see how The House on Mango Street is similar and different to the vignette of “My vacation about my first time going to Mexico”.

The authors show a similar setting in their vignettes. The setting of The House on Mango Street is a house. Sandra Cisneros, the author of The House on Mango Street wrote that in her house ”Everyone has to share a bedroom.” The setting of “My vacation about my first time going to Mexico” is a house. The author wrote “the house that I stay in it was not like home because I didn't have my own room so I got used to it”. The similarities of these vignettes are that both authors need to share their rooms with their families.

The main event of The House on Mango Street is when they moved to a new house on Mango Street. A character named Esperanza says, “There are stairs in our house but they’re ordinary hallways stairs and the house has only one washroom. The event of “My vacation about my first time going to Mexico” is when he went to Mexico. The author wrote ”I saw a tonso of animals like horse, pig, sheep, dogs, and chickens and etc. It was my first time seeing the border of Mexico.” They are different, because their events are different. Esperanza goes to a new house on Mango street and the other author goes to his vacation to