Another thing I like about the book is she not only talks about her family and herself but she speaks about the neighbors too, “Cathy queen of cats” that one was silly because how random is it that her neighbor from upstairs has so many cats and is very nice with Esperanza. Esperanza also talks about how boys and girls are really different from one another, she’s talking about her siblings. She said papa has broom like hair, her own hair was lazy it never obeyed barrettes or bands, Carlos’ hair was thick and straight, Nenny’s hair was slippery and Kiki had fur like hair because she was the youngest.

When I say uniqueness I’m talking about how she talks about her families appearance, one of the chapters “Hairs” is a funny chapter because she talks about how everybody in the family has different hair. They moved to mango street because the house they had previously lived at had broken water pipes and the owner couldn’t fix it because the house was too old.Ī part of the story that I like is where Esperanza talked about the uniqueness of her family. The difference between the other houses they lived at and the one there at now (mango street) is that the house on mango street is theirs, they don’t have to pay rent to anybody, or share the yard with the people downstairs, or be careful with to much noise, it was their house. Esperanza spoke about how her family and her didn’t always only live on mango street they had moved like about 4 times.

There were six in the family “Mama, Papa, Carlos, Kiki, her sister Nenny and herself. When the story begins it starts off with Esperanza explaining who her family is basically an introduction of who’s in the family. That was one of her main goals throughout the whole story. Esperanza had one dream and one dream only and that was that she wanted to work as hard as she could to get her own house so she can take care of everyone. Esperanza speaks about a lot of struggles her family and herself had went through in their lives. Throughout this story she speaks about who’s in the family explains how each one of her siblings are and her uncles and aunts. The house on mango street is a story about a young girl named Esperanza and her family that lives with her in one house on mango street.

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