“My Name” Esperanza has a problem. Esperanza doesn’t like her name she was named after her grandmother who looked out if a window most of her life. The grandmother “was a wild horse”. As the story tells the reader that she would not marry until a man threw a sack over her head,then carried her.
Overall, Esperanza's biggest challenges are found in the beginning, middle, and end of the story. At the beginning of the story, Esperanza struggles with her feelings about where she lives. She is embarrassed by the appearance and stifling atmosphere of the apartment. Figurative language is used when it says, "Until my great-grandfather threw a sack over her head and carried her off." In the middle of the story, Esperanza struggles with the feelings of her name.
Esperanza and her family dream of owning a house for themselves, but the house on Mango street is far from their dream home. During her time on Mango Street,
Therefore, Sandra Cisneros is showing how Esperanzas experience is shaping her
(124). This escalation of feeling suggests that Esperanza is maturing emotionally. her father knocked on the door and said please come back, this is the last time. And she said Daddy and went home.” (176)
While struggling with occurring expectations and not having financial freedom, she feels that getting a college education would help empower and socialize in the community and with the encouragement of the other people in the community, Esperanza plays a critical role in Alicia’s aspirations. Secondly, Esperanza is a girl who is going through her juvenile stage of life while trying to find herself but she doesn’t give up easily while chasing her dreams of having a better life for herself despite what she is surrounded by and the restrictions placed on her because she is a woman Esperanza finds her power within her community that helps shape her into a determined woman to break free from the cycle of poverty and being discriminated against because she is a woman. Coming in contact with all of the other women and cultural traditions helps her better understand that she identifies as a Latina woman and how she should love who she is, even if that means that she is different from everyone
She also describes her family’s personalities through their hair. Esperanza’s negative view of herself slowly changes as she begins to focus on her larger community and her place within it. Through this, Cisneros shows that knowing and accepting where one comes from is
Amid a male dominant environment, Esperanza’s influences pressure her in ways not acceptable for a developing girl. Her female role models have been corrupted and controlled by the males in her society. This aspect of her life factors hugely of her developing identity and because of what happens around her, she feels her worth plummeting. She does not want to be like the other females in this story and desires a life not controlled by males, but often Esperanza feels as if she doesn’t a
Esperanza shares many things with her grandmother, like her name, birth year, and personality. Cisneros writes “ In English my name means hope. In Spanish… it means sadness,
Esperanza’s environment shifts her identity from being an insecure child to a confident, mature young adult who realizes the decisions that adults must make. Esperanza’s response to her environment reveals an insecurity about herself early in the story. In one of Esperanza’s experiences, she finds herself ashamed
Esperanza acquires a sense of who she is as a young woman. These characters aid in her decided stance on gender roles and how she wants to evade them as she starts to build her own life. Through Esperanza’s narration, the darkness that correlates with the roles of women is brought into light. The gender roles found in the book are still issues today. Such ideas ruin much of society because people have yet to question and altar them.
Esperanza. I have inherited her name, but I don't want to inherit her place by the window." (Cisneros 11) Similar to the other women of Mango Street, Esperanza wanted to be in control of
Esperanza is often humiliated not only by where she lives, but also by her physical appearance, hence causing a restriction in her climb to a higher social class. Esperanza is frequently ashamed of her family’s broken-down house in an urban, poor
The main protagonist Esperanza, matures from a childish girl to a young confident woman through many critical and life changing events in the story. Ultimately, the author, Sandra Cisneros implements the symbols of confidence, the house on mango street and the metaphor of shoes to show how Esperanza develops into a more mature state. Sandra Cisneros
Esperanza is not proud of her heritage, she even wants to change her name. Her friend she meets,
