How does esperanza feel about her house

Esperanza feels she is too strong to live on Mango Street. She feels her life would be better if she lived somewhere else. She wants to leave Mango Street so that she can find herself. Esperanza knows that she is not like the others on Mango Street, and she wants to move to a place "with trees around it, a big yard and grass growing without a fence" page 4. To leave, she must have strength. Where will she get it? I believe her strength comes from within. Esperanza builds her strength off the mishaps that occur while living on Mango Street.

In the vignettes, Esperanza describes some very interesting things that take place on Mango Street. She recalls a time when Sally befriended her and told Esperanza to leave her alone with the boys. Esperanza felt out of place and was very uncomfortable and very ashamed to be in that situation. She wanted more from life than that, so she left the scene. There was another time when Esperanza wanted to eat lunch in the canteen at school. She was not allowed to eat at school, because she lived close enough to walk home for lunch.

But, Esperanza wanted to feel special like the other kids, so she convinced her mother to write a note to the nun in charge giving her permission to eat in the school canteen. The mother wrote the note, but the nun was not convinced. So, she made Esperanza go to the window and point to her house. She was too ashamed to point to the old-run-down home where she lived.

This was one of her most embarrassing moments. Not to be outdone, Esperanza said, "I knew then I had to have a house. A real house. One I could point to" page5. In "Four Skinny Trees," Esperanza compares herself to the four skinny trees outside her house. Like the trees, she too, has not found her place in the world. It was at this point when she had started seeing Jody, for whom she had felt love.

Due to this, Janie had bottled up her feelings of resentment despite Jody even lashing out at her on several occasions. She had kept those emotions pent up inside her not because she was scared of Jody but as a sign of strength to be able to persevere under such circumstances.

The situation had worsened between them as years went by, and Jody had even passed away due to an illness. When Sadie slowly gains information about her family history in Boort by travelling into the past, she slowly begins to accept herself as a member of the Boort community, by making friends, and connecting to the land.

At the end, her room is painted by Ellie and David and becomes a light lilac colour. Sadie notes that the room feels bigger and lighter, and begins to like her newly painted room. It is also interesting to note that the colour purple her wall is coloured lilac is associated with magic, peace and mystery.

I drifted apart from her and then stopped seeing her altogether. Eventually, she moved away. She learned so many things to get to where she is today and to come of age. Throughout the story, there is a theme of the connection of a home and identity.

The narrator identifies herself with her home and is ashamed of it. Sometimes you have to realize what you have already before wanting more. A girl named Esperanza had just moved away from a living situation which she thought was horrible. Esperanza felt her new house, while nicer, was still not as nice as she thought it it would be and embarrassing. Throughout her life, Esperanza had moved from place to place not feeling happy. Esperanza cannot keep her mind off what other people think of her.

She felt better about her house when she first moved to Mango Street but that feeling quickly evaporated. Here Esperanza is very excited about her new house but when she actually looked at the house, she was disappointed. Esperanza was expecting too much of her family and what they could afford. Her family only got to this house because her father won money with a lottery ticket. Her family had most recently been living in a run down apartment with bursting pipes. In her imagination, Esperanza thought too much of what her house would be.

She expected it to be big and lavish but it turned out to be smaller and old. She was too quick to assume everything would be better just because her family got more money. For so long she has wanted to leave it. She envisions a different type of life than what she is used to - moving from house to house. One can look at all the things she envisions - the "trappings of the good life" such as the running water, the garden etc.

In the beginning of the story Esperana is told that her new house on Mango Street will be the answer …show more content… This new house lacks these improvements. It is no different from her previous homes. Esperanza is forever marked by the house and neighborhood she lives in. She wants to be like other kids who are allowed to eat their lunch at school instead of having to go home everyday.

These students live father from the school than she does. Esperanza assumes these children live in better houses and neighborhoods. She is embarrassed by her house and angry that she must be identified by it. Which one? Come here. Which one is your house? Esperanza comes to accept her house as part of her. During the course of the book she learns, you can't leave your culture, your roots. She observes and experiences growth.

She matures. She develops opinions about dress and dating.