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Enjoyed the bilingual aspect. The stories were a bit odd to me, but I read every one. Picked the book up because of the title and the story that went with it was ok and explained the source of the title.
These stories are the confessions of a wildfire, woven with wisps of smoke and emotion and fragility. There’s nothing that hasn’t already been mentioned. If you want to feel raw, read this book.
I find it hard to relate to the narrator and the authors writing style however it is a good story and well written. The story is kind of hard to follow even though its chronological as she explains her life beginning leaving her family to go to the united states with it seems as a setup husband. Everything is planned out but she seems to glamorize her life to make it better and compares it to soap operas. She wants her life to be like a soap opera really bad and her husband turns out to be beati...
this book was okayy, it tells a story of a girl growing up in chicago and about her house on mango street (hence the title). There are many ups and downs and many people she meets that are positive and negative influences on her. She wants to be better than what people expect her to be.
I read The House on Mango St in college and remember loving it. Being entranced and excited. This book of stories was true to that memory. Beautifully told and painfully painted depictions on the female experience.
This book is written beautifully. The tragic situations that are dealt with inspirational and caring individuals were captivating and interesting to read about. I always look forward to reading anything by this author.
A great collection of short stories. I am always amazed at her writing style. There are moments in the book where she writes an entire paragraph with only one sentence...(which goes against what I teach my students about a paragraph being 3-5 sentence)
Excellent!!!!
These are the kinds of stories you need to let roll around in your brain in order to fully appreciate them, at least for me as I do not come from the culture she writes of. There was a bit of overlap in the stories - common characters and situations - so it didn’t entirely feel like a collection of short stories. I really enjoyed the imagery and her focus on female characters. Bien Pretty was my favorite of the collection.
Kiana CedanoThe House On Mango Street By : Sandra CisnerosSummary : The 2nd book i read over the summer was “The house on mango street “ by Sandra Cisneros. The book is about 44 short stories and the one telling them all is a young girl who recently moved to mango street with her mom and sisters . Esperanza meets some girls who are exactly like her poor, spanish and hard-headed. The main conflict of the story is that Esperanza does not want to be like everyone else, she hates where she lives be...
Words words words. She is a wizard with creating sounds, smells, scents - oh the complete mastery of creating place - with her words. Love the images of life Cisneros crafts with her paragraphs. If I ever write, Cisneros is one of my examples of mastering the depiction of a place and time in as succinct sentences/phrases as possible.
This book is not very good. It was a little boring reading it. its about this girl who grows up in mango street, Chicago. She is not perfect but people criticize her. She grew up on a Puerto Rican neighborhood. Her parents are both Mexican and she has 6 other siblings. overall it was ok. i would recommend it to middle school kids.
