Esperanza's Culture In The House On Mango Street

The world today is known as a very mysterious place with different types of people. These people all have different features that define who they are and what they contribute to make the society what it is today. Some of these people known as immigrants travel from one home to another home in different countries to live in a better area with a more well known rate of success. In the book The House on Mango Street, Esperanza a Mexican that has traveled to the United States doesn’t feel confident in herself at all, not even her name, but that may change. She lives in a very low income, run-down area that contain Mexicans and their culture all around it.

On page nine, Esperanza says that she is a red balloon tied to an anchor referring that she is getting held back from her culture to stay in her house. In their culture it is

In the first vignette, The House on Mango Street on page five A nun comes to Esperanza and asks where she lives. Esperanza points to where she lives and the nun says to her, “ you live there.” This obviously

In her culture many people have the same name, but Esperanza wants to be different compared to her grandmother and doesn’t want to follow her past. When Aunt Lupe tells Esperanza to keep on writing to keep her free she wants Esperanza to let her body free and let her talk about her emotions through the hard time. In the vignette born bad on page sixty-one it shows that she is different from everyone else in the neighborhood because she has the courage to talk about her feeling through writing and what she is going through. This idea is repeated in the vignettes Geraldo no last name where she is different from different girls dancing with brown shoes that don’t match her dress and how she has to express