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7.39k reviews for:
La Casa En Mango Street/The House On Mango Street
Sandra Cisneros, Sandra Cisneros, Elena Poniatowska
3.76 AVERAGE
7.39k reviews for:
La Casa En Mango Street/The House On Mango Street
Sandra Cisneros, Sandra Cisneros, Elena Poniatowska
3.76 AVERAGE
reflective
fast-paced
challenging
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
The writing style just wasn’t for me. Maybe I’m not in tune with poetry. Each chapter is a short snippet of life on Mango Street, and you almost need a scorecard to keep track of all the neighbors. Honestly, the best part of the book was that it was short.
Enjoyed the different snippet of stories about all the houses and families of Mango Street. They were a bit random and didn't have much a flow, but it is the POV of a young Latina girl.
Maybe intended for a younger audience, but tackles quite a few subjects of maturity like abuse, gender roles, immigration, and even racism.
Overall, it's a short coming of age story of a first generation immigrant child and would recommend as young adult book.
Maybe intended for a younger audience, but tackles quite a few subjects of maturity like abuse, gender roles, immigration, and even racism.
Overall, it's a short coming of age story of a first generation immigrant child and would recommend as young adult book.
I feel so privileged to be able to read so many beautiful books in my lifetime. This is no exception. I felt as though Sandra Cisneros looked at my adolescence and wrote it in a book. Although I did not personally grow up in a house like the house on Mango Street, many of my Chicago relatives have. Mainly the aspect of this book that speaks to my soul is the evolution of innocent adolescence to the stark realization of womanhood portrayed through the different prose throughout the book. The writing reflects the ages of Esperanza through the different stories, and at the surface it could seem that these stories are just quick reflections on the people within the neighborhood, but a deeper dive speaks to the reflection of a child in their neighborhood becoming a woman needing to seek the world outside Mango Street. This book felt like reading stories from my soul.
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
relaxing
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
In snippets that leave you craving more, The House on Mango Street forms a hasty sketch of the life of a maturing Mexico-to-USA migrant. Her story, which is somewhere between diary entries and a serialised newspaper column, consists of her experiences and her observations of others on Mango Street, which mainly houses other migrant families as well as lower-income households. The short chapters don’t give many details, but they don’t need to; the stories, while at times distressing, are either so relatable or so universal that one can easily fill in the blanks. I blasted through this book, loved the diversity of the characters, and was touched by the narrator’s strong connection to her community.