After reading the first vignette, what can we infer about the narrator, her family, and her neighborhood? Write a short paragraph of 7 or more sentences. Use T.A.G. + Plot summary for your first sentence. For example,
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Cristian Perez: In the book, "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisnero, the narrator describes how she is moving a lot and is annoyed by how many times her family had to move since she says, "I knew then I had to have a house. A real house. One I could point to. But this isn't it. The house on Mango Street isn't it. For the time being, Mama says. Temporary, says Papa. But I know how those things go." Also she seems to have a connection with her mother. She describes everyone's hair but her mothers is her favirote and she interacts with her alot when she says, when she makes room for you on her side of the bed near her," She also has a good smell of her hair as well. She is also annoyed that her brothers talk about all this stuff when they are in the house but can't talk to a girl outside, which foreshadows the boys having trouble with girls and asking the girls for advice. Also she has opinions about others and some are good like her friends Lusy and Rachel and some bad like Alicia which foreshadows some relationship problems.
ReplyDeleteThe House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros, the narrator describes the struggles of always being on the move. In the beginning she begins to remember all of the places where she has lived, "We didn't always live on mango street. Before that we lived on Loomis on the third floor, and before that we lived on Keeler. Before Keeler it was Paulina, and before that I can't remember." She then talks about how great it is living in a house for once and not having to deal with neighbors. Much like "Of Mice and Men" and "Animal Farm" the main character has dreams. In OMM Lennie and George dreamed of "livin' of the fatta the lan'" in Animal Farm, they had dreams of making the farm great. Even in Fahrenheit 451 Montag had dreams to find his true self. In this vignette, one of her dreams is having a home. Her own home to show off. Another topic stated is her family, in the first story, she shared that her whole family lived in one room. In the second, she shared everybody within her family has a different hair. Her mother's hair seems to be the most pleasant, "like little rosettes, like candy circles all curly and pretty because he pinned it in pin curls all day. She also stated that because she lived in the same room as everyone, she's comfortable with everything, from the smell of her mother's hair to the sound of her father's snoring. Within the third chapter entitled "Boys and Girls" the narrator shares how she feels at school and at home with her siblings, it states, "my brothers for example. They have plenty to say to me and Nenny inside the house. But outside the house they can't be seen talking to a girl. Carl is and Kiki are each others bestfriend. . . not ours." she also explains how she feels like a red balloon tied to an anchor, which is very sad because she seems to be so young and you would expect her to be so careless but in reality she's not.In the next chapter, we find out her name is really Esperanza. Esperanza wishes her name was different and easier to pronounce like Lisandra, Maritza or Zeze the X. She says that her own name is too complicated and hard for others to pronounce. In the chapter entitled, "Queen of Cats" Esperanza explains the people living on her street, one in particular is Cathy, Cathy is a young girl with lots of cats, and chooses to become friends with Esperanza under one condition "only till next Tuesday. That's when we move away." Cathy seems a bit more naive then Esperanza, at the end of this chapter when it says "they'll just have to move a little far north from mango street, a little farther away every time people like us keep moving in" you can also under that Cathys parents are racist and unaccepting of Latinos. They last chapter I read explains the time Esperanza bought two friends and potentially lost one friend. It starts off where there are two girls named Rachel and Lucy who are sisters who are pressuring Esperanza into giving them $5 so they can purchase a bike. At this point, Cathy is trying to get Esperanza to reject the offer but Esperanza is so desperate for friends that she goes inside, gets her $3 and steals $2 from Nenny. After that Esperanza returns and Cathy is gone and the girls get the bike. They decide they will all ride the bike at once. I infer that the girls manipulated Esperanza to give them the money and will end up breaking ties with her and cause Esperanza to be devastated.
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ReplyDeleteIn the vignette,"The House on Mango Street",by Sandra Cisneros, the narrator explains how she has dreams that will probably never be achieved. She says that her family has moved several times into houses that are considered by her as poor houses. I can infer from the first chapter that she is ashamed of where she lives because in the last paragraph of the first chapter, she encounters a nun from her school and the nun asked her if that is where she lived and she said yes. The narrator explains that she felt like nothing because of the way the nun said, "You live there?". This immediately made the narrator feel that she had to have a real house. I can see why she would say that because she might feel ashamed of living in a house that is old and falling down. In the next chapters, she decribes how negative she thinks. For example, in the chapter titled," Hairs" she says that everybody's hair is perfect except her. I can infer that she only pays attention to the negative side of things instead of the positive side. Even in the chapter titled, "My Name", she complains about her name. She says that people make fun of her because of her long and unpronounceable. In the last chapter, the narrator is desperate to get new friends but does not see the cons about her decisions. The two new girls are almost forcing her to give $5 in order to bike a bike. Cathy, the narrator's friend, tells her to not accept the offer but Ezperanza doesn't listen. This causes her to lose Cathy's friendship and to choose friends that she might not even know. -Ramiro Muniz
ReplyDeleteIn the vignette "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros, the narrator describes how when she lived on Loomis she was ashamed of where she lived when a nun from school asked her. "You live there? The way she said it made me feel like nothing. There. I lived there. I nodded." After this incident Ezperanza begun to want to live in a "real house", one that she would be proud to point to, when someone asked where she lived. Also the narrator feel lonely. "Someday I will have a best friend all my own. One I can tell my secrets to. One who will understand my jokes without my having to explain them. Until then I am a red balloon, a balloon tied to an anchor." She's so lonely that she compares herself to balloon tied to an anchor. Although she has Nenny, she feels that it's not the same as having someone she could relate to.
ReplyDeleteAshley Sanchez: In the vignette "The House on Mango street" by Sandra Cisneros, the narrator describes how Esperanza moves a lot and how her parents don't have a lot of money. I can infer that her parents don't have a lot of money when she talks about her past houses she says things like, " The paint peeling" and " Bricks are crumbling in places" and " Everybody has to share a bedroom—mama and papa, Carlos and Kiki, me and Nenny." When she said, " A real house that would be ours for always so we wouldn't have to move each year." I can infer that she either doesn't have enough money to pay her house or that her parents don't have a steady job and they keep switching jobs, which makes the ln move a lot. She also doesn't like her house because she said, "it made me feel like nothing." That means she was ashamed. You can tell that Esperanza admires her mom the most when she says, " When she is holding you, holding you and you feel safe." and " When she makes room room for you on the side of the bed." Also because she talks about her mother in that chapter the most. She also says that her brothers talk to her and Nenny at home but outside they can't talk to girls, she means that they are embarrassed or shy to talk to other girls. She also talks about other peopl like neighbors or old friends which means she has lots of opinions and thoughts. When she talks about Alicia you can foreshadow that they didn't really get along. When she said, " But when I tell them my name they don't laugh." You can foreshadow that she feels insecure about her name and that other people bully her or don't like her because of her name.
ReplyDeleteBlog #2: In the vignette " A Rice Sandwich" the narrator is describing how Esperanza wants to eat lunch in the canteen. When the nun reads the letter she points to three ugly flats and asks eperanza if that is her house. Esperanza says yes even though it's not her house. You can tell that the nun expects Esperanza to live in an ugly house. Then Esperanza said she cries when nuns yell at her, even if they're not yelling. You can predict that Esperanza is sensitive to the nuns when they tell her things. Also, maybe Esperanza cried because the nun thought that house was hers. Earlier in the book it talks about how Esperanza is ashamed of her house which relates to this.
Deletein the vignette, "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros the narrator complains about her economic lifestyle. The narrator uses imagery to describe her past homes such as "we don't have to pay rent, or share the yard with people downstairs, or be careful not to make too much noise, and there isn't a landlord banging on the ceiling with a broom." Judging by the way she talks about her past homes and her house now I can infer that she feels ashamed of it. Though much like myself, at a certain age I started noticing things that were wrong with my homes, such as not having enough rooms, the kitchen being too small or having to move around because of conflicts with owners of the house. Now that I am older I think of it as foolishness and I'm thankful my mom did everything she could to keep a roof over my head and as the narrator grows I believe she will realize that also. -Eliza Gonzalez
ReplyDeleteIn the vignette,"The House of Mango street" by Sandra Cisneros,the narrator explains how Esperanza moves a lot and doesn't like her house right now. She wants to live in her dream house. "Bricks are crumbling in places .....there is no front yard, only four little elms the city planted by curb." This explains that her family doesn't have lots of money. She knew that her family lived a bad neighborhood when she saw laundromat got robbed. Her parent say that the house is temporary-Jesse Martinez.
ReplyDeleteJimena Vargas: In the vignette,"The House of Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros, the narrator describes Esperanza move a lot and how her parents didn't have much money to buy a "real house" as she stated."And our house would have running water and pipes that worked. And inside it will have a real stairs not hallway stairs but stairs inside... our house would be white with trees around it and a big yard and grass growing without a fence... but The House on Mango Street is not the way they told it at all. It was small and red with tight steps in front and windows so small you'd think that they were holding their breath." This explains her dream house and how she had these expectations about her new house in Mango Street, but in reality it was the complete opposite.It didn't had a big yard like her dream house had. At the last page of the first chapter it seem like she was kind of ashamed of where she lived especially when the nun ask her where she lives and when she pointed at her house, the nun said "You live there."
ReplyDeleteIn the vignette " the house on the Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros, the narrator describes her experience on moving from place to place. She is ungrateful of her house and her homes, she's ashamed even when the moon passes by and asks if that was her house. She thought of her family very different but she had a very strong bond with her mother. In her culture boys and girls weren't allowed to hang out with each other very much just like mine. She was also unhappy of her name Esperanza, she felt as if she needed a different name to explain her inter self even more like Zeze the X. As described of the many houses Esperanza's live then I can infer that her family wasn't wealthy. Their houses were in bed or what she expected them to be but at least she had a roof under her head and Esperanza did not get that. When she meets Lucy and Rachel I can infer that their friendship isn't real ,with just the fact that they used her to buy a bike. I believe that Esperanza seeks friendship because she feels alone . -JENNIFER FLORES
ReplyDeleteIn the vignette "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros, the narrator describes how different her and her sister are from Rachel and Lucy. I believe that Esperanza is trying to be someone she's not, like for example her laugh she Compares it to Rachel and Lucy's and does not like her own. As stated in page 20 "Nenny who thinks she is smart talks to any old man" describes her thinking of herself as a smart,brave,and forward sort of child. And I infer the fact that she thinks she's smart will get her into trouble. The author rarely describes Cathy but as her house was described I can tell she wasn't very wealthy either. I would say her family moved out for better opportunities, then meme moved in. ( not wealthy either)Meme may not be wealthy but he seems like he is happy with his mother and dog. He does not seem like a troubled kid, he listens to his mother, and spend time with his dog. Lewis family seems to be in a family where getting a bad grade wasn't the problem it was getting involved with the authorities, which I can relate to because some of my family members are like that as well. He seems to be the one who carries the family, responsible and and caring for his sisters and cousinstuff Marin she influences Esperanza to think the boys in a different way. I can predict that Marin will be a bad influence on Esperanza and expose her two things she should not know.
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ReplyDeleteIn the vignette,"Marin" the narrator explains how Marin has an interest in boys. I think that Marin is a bad example for Ezperanza because of the way Marin acts. On page 27, the narrator says, " And since Marin's skirt are shorter...her eyes are pretty...Marin is older than us in many ways." This means that Marin is trying to get attention from boys. Ezperanza shouldn't look up to Marin in the ways she acts. Even Louie's parents want to send her back to her mother because they say that she is too much trouble. I think that Ezperanza is too young to know what Marin is talking about because apparently, Ezperanza says that Marin knows a lot of things. Marin can be seen as a negative character because of the way she looks and acts. At the end of the vignette, Marin says that she is just waiting for a car to stop and for someone to change her life. I think that Marin is desperate for a special someone and should not be looking at her age yet.
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ReplyDeleteIn the vignette, "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros, the narrator describes her current lifestyle in comparison to what she used to live in. She points out that can't take a bath without letting everyone know, or even how a nun,a woman of God, referred to her home as "that house". The narrator is obviously embarrassed and more so ashamed of her environment. Many might argue that she is being ungrateful, which is some ways she is, however growing up kids often do not realize the struggle their parents and families have to go through or just don't quite understand it. I feel she is rather thankful, it is just upsetting for her to still be in that environment now that she's growing up. The way that she talks and the rhythm in the way she says things lets you know she is young and may be in her pre-teens, but the things she says also shows that she is very mature for her age and may be exposed to a lot as a child, for most children do not think this way. She describes her family in a peculiar way, and when you put two and two together you'd notice that she utmost admire her mother while her relationship with her sister seems to be typical. Her sister's a problem child and father might be a little crazed. Esperanza is probably too mature for her age which is why she needed to "pay" for friends. You can tell she is bright and very open minded.
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ReplyDeleteIn the vignette, "Gil's Furniture Bought & Sold" Esperanza describes a memory from a furniture store with her sister. "An old man owns it. We bought a used refrigerator from him once, and Carlos sold a box of magazines for a dollar." the narrator also shares, "The owner, he's a black man who doesn't talk much and sometimes if your didn't know better you can be in there for a long time Before your eyes notice a pair of gold glasses floating in the dark," within these lines we learn lots more about Til and his shop. My favorite part of this chapter is when it states, "the old man says shutting the lid, this ain't for sale." You can assume that Gil has a very strong connection to the music box. I predict that Gil might have a change of heart and give Nenny the music box.
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ReplyDeleteIn the vignette, "Hairs" by Sandra Cisneros, the narrator describes how is your family everyone has different kind of hair. The way that she describes each member of the family hair represents their personality. For example in the book page 6 when it says,"Papa's hair is like a broom,all up in the air," probably means that he stressed or he always fix or clean things around the house. When the narrator describes her mother's hair it seems like looks up to her mom. For example in page 7,"when she makes room for you on her side of her bed still warm with her skin...," it describes how her mother is very caring of her family especially about her family. Three topics that this vignette has is family and differences between people/family members. The theme of this vignette is that in life sometimes a family can be unique compared to other families not every family is the same.
Blog #2 Jimena Vargas
ReplyDeleteIn the vignette, "Hairs" by Sandra Cisneros, the narrator describes how is your family everyone has different kind of hair. The way that she describes each member of the family hair represents their personality. For example in the book page 6 when it says,"Papa's hair is like a broom,all up in the air," probably means that he stressed or he always fix or clean things around the house. When the narrator describes her mother's hair it seems like looks up to her mom. For example in page 7,"when she makes room for you on her side of her bed still warm with her skin...," it describes how her mother is very caring of her family especially about her family. Three topics that this vignette has is family and differences between people/family members. The theme of this vignette is that in life sometimes a family can be unique compared to other families not every family is the same.
In the vignette, "Louie, His cousin and His other cousin" by Sandra Cisneros, the narrator describes that Louie's family move into Meme's basement. The family was from Puerto Rico and he brought cousin named Marin. Another cousin of Louie was driving a nice car and was driving kid in the neighborhood around the block ,but then they heard sirens. The cousin crash the car and was arrested by the cops. Which begs the question if the car being drove was possibly stolen. That examples by he told the kids to run out of the car and why he drove the car fast enough to crash it.-Blog #2 Jesse Martinez
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ReplyDeleteBlog #2: In the vignette " A Rice Sandwich" the narrator is describing how Esperanza wants to eat lunch in the canteen. When the nun reads the letter she points to three ugly flats and asks eperanza if that is her house. Esperanza says yes even though it's not her house. You can tell that the nun expects Esperanza to live in an ugly house. Then Esperanza said she cries when nuns yell at her, even if they're not yelling. You can predict that Esperanza is sensitive to the nuns when they tell her things. Also, maybe Esperanza cried because the nun thought that house was hers. Earlier in the book it talks about how Esperanza is ashamed of her house which relates to this.
Blog #3: in the vignette "the first job" the narrator describes Esperanza's job at Peter Pan photo finishers. When the old man kisses esperanza on the lips you can tell this was going to happen. When he tells Esperanza that they are friend you can predict that something is gonna happen. In the vignette "Chanclas" Esperanza said ther was a boy who is a man watches her dance. That man could be the same guy in this vignette. You can also foreshadow that she was gonna meet another guy. Another vignette that relates to this is "The family of little feet" Esperanza also experiences this when the man asks Rachel to kiss him.
ReplyDeleteIn the vignette "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros, the narrator describes however neighborhood is different from race just like how we have today. Even though we don't have technically racism today we still separate each other from race and that gives us different perspective of everyone just like in "Those Who Don't". And that's where the woman who carried many children is something that we see a lot today as a single mother with a lot of children with no support. As for Alicia who sees mice uses the mice to replace her mother who has passed away. Father tell her she is just imagining it is correct but at least yes he's the most as something she is missing, her mother. The family with Little Feet again is comparing everyone in Esperanzas family in their different ways. Until they get to the shoes which is used as an indication to see that if you give the girls "power" they take advantage of it. And as for Esperanza you can infer that her friends are going to get her into trouble even if it had to do with just a dollar.
ReplyDeleteIn the vignette "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros, the narrator describes her experience during lunch at school. She points out how kids get to eat in the canteen and she wants to as well, even though she has no need to. With that I can infer that she is still needy much. In "Hips" she has grown a relationship with their friends Rachel and Lucy, the way they act with Esperanzas sister Nenny, I can compare them to real world as I see my little cousin and her next-door neighbors act the same way with her smaller sister. As if Esperanza like my cousin pushes away her own family for friends. As the story goes Esperanza seems to be growing as a character, the fact that she is getting her first job proves that she is growing to make money and help for her education. Esperanza seems to take a change at this point, it makes her seem as if she cares about more things than we thought.
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ReplyDeleteIn the vignette "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros, "Alicia Who Sees Mice," the narrator describes Alicia have all these dreams about having a better future than most people who work in a factory or behind a rolling pin. "Close your eyes and they'll go away, her father says, or you're just imagining, her father is basically saying that she is to going to succeed in life and she is going to work in a factory. Since her mother die, she is the only older women in her house. Alicia needs to do all the work for example, making lunchbox tortillas. I feel that her dad wants her not to leave their house because then he is going to have all the work she does already. Alicia is a very smart girl that is going to a university. Overall, Alicia is a girl with big dreams.
In the vignette "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros, the narrator introduces a new character named Elenita. The narrator claims this woman is a "witch woman", reading about her I can infer that is put on so I will go to her for many things, for example when she went to seek for her future.In "Geraldo No Last Name" I can say that Marin is going to get into some trouble, like in this part of the story where her dance partner went "missing". I can also infer that Marin might be got in some trouble that she can't get out of. As Esperanza describes Ednas daughter,Ruthie,we get to no more exactly who she really is. Really seems like she's been through a lot and currently has mental problems. I can infer that she has mental problems with the fact that it states that she talks and laughs by herself. He's also delusional about her husband coming back for her,when in reality he left her.
ReplyDeleteIn the vignette "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros, the narrator describes another character named Earl, he has a unique quality that none of the characters describe have, he is different. Girl seems to be more of a inside person to himself, doesn't share his information, doesn't really speak to many, and keeps his wife away from people to see. I have experience someone just like Earl, except it was a lady and her name was Rosa. She was my neighbor and just let her know she kept to herself but was well-respected by every neighbor, just like Earl. I can relate so I heard too many of the boys around my old neighborhood, I was never really allowed to go outside because of boys like him. And just like Esperanza as a little girl I would see many girls walk all by themselves or with a boy. And I thought to myself why am I not allowed to have that luxury, or what have I done to be punished and stay inside. Just like his parents and I felt like I needed to learn will my parents really meant to do which was keep me safe. Esperanza trying to be brave shows that she wants to be more than what she thinks she is but that may get her into trouble. Esperanza uses the four skinny trees to compare with herself. As she says for her not belong here, she believes that she does not belong at the house that she is currently living in just like the trees.
ReplyDeleteIn the vignette "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros, the the narrator describes a woman who came from a foreign land to join her partner to take care of their possible child. She gets very homesick and begins to cry what's a man gets frustrated with her, I once had a friend who came from Mexico and not to just the way she did. I can get or her frustration and sadness comes from, because as she has promised all this feature she has left behind a lot. I can infer that Rafaela will run away because she will get tired of being kept in that room for so long. I have some knowledge of a situation which similar like this, my cousin is Young and got married with someone older as she is kept home to do chores, she is not let out who to trust. Sally will be another big influence to his parents and the way she acts, I can answer this because every time she speaks of a young girl being beautiful, she looks up to them. And as Sally's father says being that beautiful is trouble and I can agree.
ReplyDeleteIn the vignette "House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros, the narrator describes a woman named Minerva and explains hard life is one thing after another.Minerva is a mother who raises her children on her own because of her partner constantly coming and going. I have had experiences with this from a neighbor who used to live in our back house. Was a nice lady but her partner constantly gave her trouble. As much as me and my mother wished to help we knew there was nothing that we could do. Day after day they would always fight just like Minerva.In "Bums in the Attic" Esperanza seems to be still ungrateful of what she has, but now has dreams of her own and wishes to help others. As I was smaller I would move constantly like Esperanza, we will look at so many beautiful houses but only to pass by. Just like aspirin so I wanted to have my own to show that I could be successful, but didn't appreciate that I still had a roof over my head. Although she seems ungrateful at least now she's starting to grow up a bit more with the step of helping others like bums in her attic.
ReplyDeleteIn the vignette "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros, the narrator describes how she wants to be seen as the woman in movies that always get their way. She does not have self-confidence and believe she is ugly child and with that stated I can infer that she would be influenced by many girls older. In "A Smart Cookie" Esperanza's mom seems to be a lot like her when she was little. She wasn't happy with what she had,even though what you had was just enough. As she says "No clothes but I have brains" her mother was telling her that she didn't have the looks but she had it in her. And something she wanted to teach Esperanza was that shame was a bad thing, and that's exactly what Esperanza needs to hear. In "what Sally says" Esperanza's describing her friend Sally is always physically abused by her father. Her father had problems of his own and had to sadly take it out on Sally and her mother. I've had experience this with my cousin and gratefully the unhappy relationship ended very quickly and did not end up like Sally.
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