... downstairs because no one lives down stairs it's there house. The house on Mango Street is not what Esperanza thought they would get. The House Esperanza wants, is a house with running pipes, stairs and real hall ways, at least three bathrooms, so you would not have to tell every one when you needed to use the bathroom. She is kind of upset because the house on Mango Street is not what she ... expected. She thought it was going to be a nice house in a good neighborhood. She is embarrassed about the house she lives in, the ... family always had to share rooms. The house ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... stairs, not hallway stairs, but stairs inside like the houses on TV. And we"d have a basement and at least three washrooms so when we took a bath we wouldn't have to tell everybody. Our house would be white with trees around it, a great big yard and grass growing without a fence. (The House on Mango Street Pg. 4) A child that grows up in a better environment dreams of a more extravagant house. Esperanza's dream of ... a "better" house ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... . Esperanza feels trapped by poverty because her family could not buy the kind of house that she could feel proud of. Esperanza's family had always talked about heir dream house that they planned they would own a t some point. "This was the house Papa talked about when he held a lottery ticket and this was the house Mama dreamed up in the stories she told us before we went to bed." (p.4) On ... Sundays, which was Papa's day off, the family would go out and look at the nice houses on the hill. "I am tired of looking at what we can't have. When we ... Mango Street. She is very homesick an...

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• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

... move each year. . . But the house on Mango Street is not what the way they told it at all. It was a small house with crumbling bricks, small windows, no front yard, no trees, hallway stairs, one washroom, and everyone had to share a bedroom. (4) The house on Mango Street did not live up to Esperanza's standards of her dream house. Likewise as a teenager, Cisneros' family ... had accomplished their goal of purchasing their own house but, "Cisneros regarded the house as ugly and shabby and ... nothing like what she imagined a house should be" ("The House on Mango Street" ... ...

• Word Count: 2834
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate