... being a teenager, growing up with everything that is going on today like; drugs, alcohol, sex, adolescence, maturity and all the peer pressure from older siblings, friends and even in some cases strangers? In this book House on Mango Street a girl deals with these issues in many different circumstances. Some of these issues this girl deals with are maturity, sexuality. These issues will come up during ... the next few paragraphs. One of the first issues Esperanza faces is in the vignette Hips. In this little section of the book Esperanza deals with the fact that she is maturing and getti...

• Word Count: 641
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... represented similar stereotypes that applied in some way or another to Esperanza. At the same time, none of the characters were stock. Nobody in this book was typical. In point of fact, they were all extremely strange. This was an interesting technique that Cisneros utilized. In whole, The House On Mango Street demonstrated societies oppression of Latina females in Urban communities like Chicago today. Sandra Cisneros obviously spent much ... time showing readers what to do and what not to do. This book is thematically the story of the lives of many inner-city Latina females today and C...

• Word Count: 1031
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School