... Street," Sandra Cisneros creates a believable scene using different elements of creative writing. Cisneros uses her description of the setting to allow "The House on Mango Street" to have a life of its own. She capitalizes on using the point of view of a young girl to set the theme of the story. She allows the reader to understand the characters without saying too much about any ... . Of the house on Mango Street, Cisneros describes it as "small and red with tight little steps . . . and windows so small you"d think they were holding their breath . . . There is no front yard, only four li...

• Word Count: 629
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

High Expectations The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros is a story about a boy who does not like the new home they are living in. In it the narrator starts off by telling the readers that they have moved from place to place, ... one his father and mother used to describe. Little did he know that the house on Mango Street is not what he imagined and finds great embarrassment in living there. Cisneros shows that we are use to dreaming of high expectations and when we come back into reality we find out that life is just playing its tricks on us. The ... him to think more. This happens bet...

• Word Count: 998
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

The book I read was The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. The House on Mango Street is a book about culture of Chicanos, also known as Mexican Americans. It is about a girl named Esperanza who moves into a new house on Mango Street. Before she moved to Mango Street she lived on Loomis on the ... third floor and before that house she lived on Keeler. The difference about the house on Mango Street and the ones before are that they don't have to pay rent, there is no land lord bugging them for being loud. ... because the house on Mango Street is not what she expected. She thought it was ...

• Word Count: 483
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School