ipl-logo

The House On Mango Street Reflective Analysis

534 Words3 Pages
bulb-icon

Recommended: Diversity in culture race and ethnicity

First, I want to create a safe and welcoming environment for Esperanza. It’s im-portant for me to have rapport with Esperanza, so that she will feel and know that I am not here to judge her. Which that, I hope Esperanza will be willing to express her anxiety, loneliness, rage, and the reasons behind her insomnia with me in counseling. My plans for working with Esperanza will consist collaborating with Esperanza and developing possible plans for her daughter and her, exploring Esperanza cultural and family values so that I can have a better insight about her beliefs and values when we begin to set cul-turally appropriate goals, talk about the positive and negative consequences of divorce, and her attractions to women. The gaps in my knowledge about Esperanza are her cultur-al and family values and the LGBT community. Which is why, during our counseling session, I would ask Esperanza so that she can help me become more familiar so I can implement appropriate techniques on how to serve her. As for, how is my cultural context framing the way I view Esperanza, as her counselor I must create a …show more content…

My strength with working with Esperanza is that I can relate to her when she discloses that she was discriminated by others at a young age. As a Hmong girl, I too was discriminated by other students at my school, which resulted in my lack of self-esteem. This is my strength because I can self-disclose with Esperanza to let her know her know that she is not alone. Another strength I have is my high family and cultural values. Therefore, I can relate to Esperanza because we won’t don’t want to bring shame to our family. Esperanza shared that she feared her family’s and priest’s disapproval and

Show More
Related
562 Words | 3 Pages

Mitchell Curtis English 9 / Period 6 Mr.Boyat 17 October 2016 Three Influential Characters in The House on Mango Street In the novel The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, the story is developed through the eyes of a young girl Esperanza. She learns about the realities of life in a house that she recently moved into. There are many characters that are written as she learns about her new neighborhood. The three most influential characters in the novel are Sally, her Mother ,and Marin.

Read More
1002 Words | 5 Pages

Obstacles Numerous people stumble upon obstacles, but only a few can overcome them. Most obstacles are influenced by the values of the society. In The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, Liesel Meminger overcomes her lack of education and her different beliefs on Jewish people. In Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet both overcome the obstacle of not being able to be together because of the feud between their families. In “The House on Mango Street” by Sandra Cisneros, Esperanza overcomes the obstacle of not fitting into her society because of her lack of money.

Read More
1240 Words | 5 Pages

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros is a story of a young Mexican girl growing up in the United States. Her name is Esperanza, and the novel takes the reader into her mind and heart as she reminisces about her childhood and what she hoped for in her future. Throughout the novel, Cisneros uses various symbols to highlight the inner conflicts within Esperanza. One of those symbols is shoes. Cisneros uses shoes symbolically throughout the novel to represent parts of Esperanza’s thoughts, emotions, and dreams as she undergoes a transformation from childhood innocence to the realities of adulthood.

Read More
504 Words | 3 Pages

Culture identity is something many young people struggle with, especially teens as they go through discovering themselves. Esperanza is the kind of girl who struggles with her cultural background. She envies everyone else she sees as they fit in with the place they are at. Even if the life of others isn’t necessarily amazing she is still jealous for what they do get. The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros a very touching story about how a young girl tries to fit in an American society being a Latino.

Read More
437 Words | 2 Pages

The House on Mango Street is set in a poor, primarily Hispanic neighborhood. Author Sandra Cisneros creates an atypical, yet easily digestible world for the reader to experience while learning about Esperanza’s childhood. The culture of her environment influences Esperanza’s development as she becomes a young woman, and contributes to the book’s driving theme of self-empowerment. Mango Street is the source of Esperanza’s growth through her childhood, and it hides sadness and longing underneath stereotypes of Hispanic people. The characters that live in the broken-down neighborhood all seem to represent pigeonholed views of Latino individuals.

Read More
575 Words | 3 Pages

Alicia, one of Esperanza’s many neighbors, is trying to do that very same thing. “Alicia, who inherited her mama’s rolling pin and sleepiness, is young and smart and studies for the first time at the university.” (Cisneros, 31) Alicia is forced to assume her mother’s role after she passes away, however, she is also trying to graduate from college. However, it is also implied that Alicia’s father is abusive, or possibly unsupportive, because Esperanza notes that “[Alicia] Is afraid of nothing except four-legged fur. And fathers.”

Read More
1224 Words | 5 Pages

Sexuality in adolescence Sexuality is the most notorious and common sign of development in adolescence. “The House on Mango street”, by Sandra Cisneros is a coming of age novel, where Esperanza transitions from a girl into a young teen. In her journey, Esperanza comes across many challenges, she is forced to grow up by life’s adversities. In the short story “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid, a mother advises her daughter and scolds her into becoming a decent woman. In her guidance, the mother is worried about her daughter’s sexual activity and warns her about the consequences of improper behavior.

Read More
656 Words | 3 Pages

Of course, there were more factors involved in Esperanza’s mother’s failure to achieve success and personal satisfaction than the specific events specified in this vignette and throughout the book. The reader can assume that the lack of parental guidance and financial support definitely wilted the mom’s confidence. It is safe to infer that she was readily teased and mocked in school for her impecunious appearance, which played a substantial role in fostering a sense

Read More
640 Words | 3 Pages

Throughout The House on Mango Street, characters struggle to actualize their dreams of a meaningful life. Author Sandra Cisneros illustrates this theme through her inclusion of windows as a symbol for a longing of another life. In the novel The House on Mango Street, windows represent the book and it’s theme of struggling for satisfaction in life by acting both as a border to another life and a translucent gateway to the character’s hopes. Windows act as a border to the life the characters long for but are incapable of achieving. Esperanza tells her great-grandmother’s story in which she is whisked away from her previously eventful life only to “[look] out the window her whole life, the way so many women sit their sadness on an elbow” because “she couldn’t be all the things she wanted to be” (Cisneros 11).

Read More
762 Words | 4 Pages

As I read the case study of Almeada and baby Anne, I was inspired by her case manager Barbra LaRosa, she provided social care and became the “bridge” between Almeade and the systems. One function of bridging is to narrow the gap between the services being offered and the needs of the individuals who are receiving those services. (Woodside, M. R. (2015). An Introduction to the Human Services, 8th Edition) Ms. LaRosa applied social care to Almeada while she was pregnant with baby Anne, she recognized Almeada's problems in living and since she worked at the school, and Almeada had not returned from summer break, she reached out to her to see what was going on and learn more about her life.

Read More
450 Words | 2 Pages

Interestingly, she seems to lose this confidence when speaking to adults outside of her immediate family. Perhaps this points to some traumatic incident with a stranger? But I digress. Esperanza pesters her mother for three days, asking for a note to eat in the canteen. She tells her mother “You will see me less, and like me more.”

Read More
717 Words | 3 Pages

“In the meantime they’ll just have to move a little farther north from Mango Street, a little farther away every time people like us keep moving in (Cisneros 13).” This quote is a significant part of the story because it shows how Esperanza truly feels about herself and her family. She thinks that because she is poor and lives and a bad neighborhood people move away from her family. Esperanza doesn’t think very much of her or her family at all. She thinks that it is because of their race that people do not want to be near them.

Read More
1212 Words | 5 Pages

But immediately she feels intimidated because she doesn’t understand the rules of the workplace, and is too afraid to ask. “… and I didn’t know if I could sit down or not, and then I started sitting down when the two ladies next to me did.” (54). Yet again Esperanza proves that she is still a child because she feels too timid to ask a basic question. The lunch room turns out to be a scary place for Esperanza as well.

Read More
1042 Words | 5 Pages

Maggard 1 Cole Maggard Johnson English 1 6 November 2014 Character compare and contrast Esperanza from House on Mango Street, Melinda from Speak, and Jean Louise from To Kill a Mockingbird, are very interesting characters that seem to not share many characteristics in each of these novels. These three girls were the main characters of their own books, and in each of these books we learned that they don’t have a lot in common. The personality that these three have just shows how different they are. Here are just a few examples that make these three girls different.

Read More
1704 Words | 7 Pages

Additionally, as a counselor, it is important to be genuine with whatever feedbacks one presents to the patient and what one believes regarding the situation of the client. Mrs. Perez believes the more authentic and genuine he is with her patients, the more help he will be able to offer the clients. As a counselor, it is important to have a fine and professional interaction with one 's client but boundaries must be maintained. Through this, a counselor is able to demonstrate their focus on helping the patients by showing the client that they understand their problems. It also through such engagements that counselor is able to use the non-judgmental attention that does not require words for illustration in helping the patient.

Read More

More about The House On Mango Street Reflective Analysis

Related Topics

Open Document