Entrapment In The House On Mango Street

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The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros is about a girl, Esperanza, a girl who dreams of being out of poverty and having a nice house. She lives in a little red house on Mango Street in Chicago, which is a poverty-stricken street. Women are constantly being sexually harassed; two of the many characters that have been harassed in any way are Sally and Esperanza. Many situations involve the guys trying to trade something for a kiss or just kissing girls without consent. Sally, a girl who is physically abused by her father, is only 13 years of age. She wishes for a man to sweep her off her feet and take her away from the poverty and abuse. She got married to a very controlling abusive man in his thirties. She has been taken advantage