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Summary Of The House On Mango Street

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Sandra Cisneros wrote the House on Mango Street. Esperanza lives in Chicago in the 1950s; Where she lived was on Mango street which was a predominantly Mexican American community at the time. She is describing how people drive through her town scared of what those living will do to them. Cisneroś who is Mexican American takes experiences from her own life and adds them into her stories. Prejudice is like a cycle that is learned, Esperanza even though she is upset that she is being judged on her skin color, she judges others based on her skin color. Cisneros writes about this in the House on Mango Street The media played a big part in voicing these fears, movies, the newspaper portrays anyone that is not white in a negative light.When people
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