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In the last vignette, she talks about how she has now become a writer. She writes a book about her life in Mango Street. But then she says that one day she will leave Mango Street and that she’s too strong to live there forever. This completes the circle because when she starts to grow up she talks about becoming successful and leaving one day and she finally does that. But when you are drawing a circle, you end where you began. This connects to what she says because in the end she says “They will not know I have gone away to come back”(110 Cisneros) Saying that she will go back to Mango street. She also talks about what she says at the beginning of her book, it is the same thing that we read at the beginning of the Vignette “The House on Mango Street”. Writing her story from the beginning is like doing it all over again in a way.

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It all comes into  full circle when Esperanza says “I like to tell stories. I’m going to tell you a story about a girl who didn’t want to belong” in “Mango Says Goodbye Sometimes”. At the end Esperanza had chosen to become a writer. Esperanza was a writer who wrote about their past in order to start a new future. With this known, one could figure out that each vignette was written by her future-self, reflection on her past: containing her point of view of   and understanding of important aspects in her life

: moments, memories, events, and people.

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Esperanza didn’t want to belong to the group of women who stay stuck on Mango Street, trapped by their husbands and kids with little to no freedom. She doesn’t want to be weak and submissive for a man. She wants to be free and strong. 

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Esperanza didn’t want to belong to the group of women who stay stuck on Mango Street, trapped by their husbands and kids with little to no freedom. She doesn’t want to be weak and submissive for a man. She wants to be free and strong. 

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He may have broken the grammar rules because it shows how Esperanza may do things differently. It shows how she is going to break out of Mango Street by following her dreams and what she believes in. She skipped the word breaking because she already left Mango street.

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Cisneros broke the rules of grammar here to bring the sense of Esperanza's maturity. Esperanza has grown to realize that Mango Street is home even after all of the things that made her dislike being there so much. I think there is a relation between “breaking” the grammar and breaking out of Mango Street, but for the right reasons. Not truly because she wants everyone to one day realize how bad Mango Street is, but to become who they've wanted to become and realize how Mango Street made them who they are, “Mango says goodbye sometimes. She does not hold me with both arms. She sets me free” (Cisneros 110)

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The ending of The House on Mango Street completes a circle as at the beginning of the story, in the first vignette, Esperanza tells the reader that “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” (Cisneros 3), but by the end, it returns back to this phrase but at the end of the phrase, she admits  that “Before Keeler it was Paulina, but what I remember most is Mango Street, sad red house, the house I belong but do not belong to” (Cisneros 110). This shows that by the end of the story, Esperanza acknowledges Mango Street to be a big part of her life  whether she liked it or not, completing the circle from not being able to remember much of life before Mango Street to back to not remembering much before Mango Street because it’s all she remembers.

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The most important quality to Esperanza is that her house has to be hers and she doesn’t want it to be a man’s house (Husband’s). This is because in the book one of her goals is to become independent and not reliant of a man. To do this she believes she needs to earn everything herself. Throughout the vignette “A House of My Own” she continuously uses the word “My”. Showing that everything she wants has to be earned by her  and not by anyone else.

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“My two shoes waiting beside the bed” (Cisneros 108).  Esperanza has some sense of control over her life now, she has transitioned into a young independent woman. In the past the shoes would take the reins and she would just follow like she didn’t have a choice. But now that her shoes are “waiting” and beside her bed shows how she has that control, she can finally make her own decisions in her own time: whenever she is ready. Also, different than before,  she proudly claims her shoes by saying my unlike earlier times where Esperanza was embarrassed over what were on her feet like in “Chanclas”.

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The story’s message is to remember your past and cherish the time that you have now because in the future, your past might need you and you might need your past. Using the things you’ve gone through can help others with what they are currently going through. The use of the letter I shows that she is free and her own person. But she talks about her past too after which shows she still has some of her young self inside of her.

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The nature of Esperanza’s strength leading her to become more stronger than Mango Street keeping her there forever would be that Esperanza has such a determination to the point where even if multiple things attempt to block her path, she still attempts to reach her goal whichever possible way, this including trying to leave Mango Street and go to a new house. Cisneros establishes this characteristic through when Sally was kissing Tito and his friends in order to get her keys back, and after the attempt to tell Tito’s mother with no avail, Esperanza states that  “I looked at her a long time, but couldn’t think of anything to say, and ran back down the three flights to the garden where Sally needed to be saved. I took three big sticks and a brick and figured this was enough” (Cisneros 97). Through this paragraph, Cisneros establishes Esperanza as determined to protect her friend Sally at whatever cost necessary, even going out of her way and grabbing sticks and a brick in order to defend Sally from Tito and his friends, showing that even if one obstacle such as Tito’s mother isn’t going to help her, that she will just do it herself at whatever means necessary.

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What Esperanza specifically did not belong to was herself she was constantly moving and she did not know who to be anymore. She tried to fit in and make new friends but it was hard and is why she broke free from Mango Street to start her own journey and mature herself.

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What Esperanza specifically did not belong to was herself she was constantly moving and she did not know who to be anymore. She tried to fit in and make new friends but it was hard and is why she broke free from Mango Street to start her own journey and mature herself.

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Esperanza herself wanted to be independent and not follow the  social norms that the world had created. She saw what had gone on in her street and even experienced certain things that she shouldn't have. She did not want to be held back through entrapment by a man and her own cultural standards. We see the concept of machismo in the book as the man in the household or a family member of sort usually has the advantage over the woman. In the vignette “What Sally Said'' Sally goes on to excuse her own fathers behavior, “He never hits me hard” (Cisneros 92). Even though it was awfully clear that Sally was being abused by her own father, later on she would marry a man who would only treat her slightly better, but with less freedom. That is something Esperanza never wanted to become

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When Esperanza says “My two shoes waiting beside the bed” from “A House of My Own” (Cisneros 108). We see growth.  In the beginning she HATED the shoes she had because she thought that they were ugly and everyone else had nicer shoes and she was just trying to fit in. But now she's accepted that those brown shoes are just a part of who she is. In “A Smart Cookie” Esperanzas mom says “Shame is a bad thing, you know.  It keeps you down”(Cisneros 91). Esperanzas mom quit school because she didn't have nice things and now her life isnt as good as it could've been. Luckily Esperanza kept going to school no matter how ugly she thought her shoes were and now she's closer to getting the dream home she's always wanted.

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Esperanza feels that she is too strong to live on mango street she feels as if she needs to leave and find where she thinks she really belongs, a place "with trees around it, a big yard and grass growing without a fence.” Another time an instance where she feels that she needs to leave mango street is when the nun would not let Esperanza sit at the canteen and the nun pointed out the window and told her to go home although she wasn't pointing the right way, Esperanza believed that "[She] knew then [she] had to have a house. A real house. One [she] could point to"

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The ghost represents her feeling of not belonging in mango street. She explains that when she writes down her stories on paper that feeling goes away and her writing helps this feeling of not belonging not hurt as much.

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The ghost represents her feeling of not belonging in mango street. She explains that when she writes down her stories on paper that feeling goes away and her writing helps this feeling of not belonging not hurt as much.

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In “A house of my own” Esperanza says that she does not want to live or ever go back to Mango street until someone makes it better, more notably make her house better, she then goes on to describe her dream house as having a “picturesque, not belonging to a man, flowers in front, a porch, and her shoes beside the bed. She describes the house as safe and full of potential, “clean as paper before the poem.” The most important characteristic to Esperanza is, as the title suggests, having a house to herself.

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The “ghost” Esperanza refers to is her past memories, her past experiences, her old life she had back in Mango Street. Espersona grows up to be a writer, she comes to terms on what Mango Street meant to her. She realizes that both Manga Street and the residents have given her plenty of stories that she can write. Through writing, Esperanza can deal with the ghost that she calls her past  and move beyond it.

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Esperanza lists that her house must not be flat or an apartment in the back and she wants a porch and pillow and her pretty purple petunias, and she wants her books and stories and her two she’s waiting by her bed. She wants a house she can call her own, not a man’s house or her daddy’s. The characteristics that are most important to Esperanza is her books and her stories. They mean so much to her and have recorded how far she has come and matured as a person. Also just having her own house alone is all she has ever dreamed of since she was a little girl and that's what is most important to her.

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Esperanza lists that her house must not be flat or an apartment in the back and she wants a porch and pillow and her pretty purple petunias, and she wants her books and stories and her two she’s waiting by her bed. She wants a house she can call her own, not a man’s house or her daddy’s. The characteristics that are most important to Esperanza is her books and her stories. They mean so much to her and have recorded how far she has come and matured as a person. Also just having her own house alone is all she has ever dreamed of since she was a little girl and that's what is most important to her.

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The main message seemed to be that Esperanza was growing up. She doesn't want Mango street to define her anymore. It can't stop her from living the life she wants now. She instead wants to help those who are just like she was. Those living on Mango street who feel lost and alone. An example of figurative language used in the story would be the personification of Mango street when she says “She does not hold me with both arms, she sets me free” (Concerts 109).

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In “Mango Says Goodbye Sometimes” the “ghost” she is referring to is basically her mind and soul you can't see but it's there. She says that “[She] puts it down on paper and the ghost does not ache so much.” She is trying to say that when she writes out her actions it calms her mind and eliminates all her bad thoughts presumably how she is belonging somewhere that she does not want to belong to. It shows that the ghost can greatly affect the way she thinks when she is not writing and calming her mind.

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The “ghost” being referred to in “Mango Says Goodbye Sometimes” (Cisneros 110) would be the emotional baggage Esperanza has of all her years just never being able to tell anyone how she truly felt about living on Mango Street and the experiences that led her to want to live alone. This ghost functions the novel as a behind the scenes occurrence, with Esperanza usually not being able to vent her feelings to her family since she didn’t have the courage or they didn’t understand. This leads to Esperana not trusting people and wanting to live alone in a house where she wouldn’t have to look over anyone or have anyone look over her.

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The main idea in “Mango Says Goodbye” is to recognize that Mango Street was so impactful to her and even though it wasnt exactly what she wanted, it had made her understand the person she wanted to become, a writer. Mango saying goodbye to Esperanza gives into the fact that Esperanza isnt letting go of Mango Street, but putting it at pause as she continues on with her life and her passion. Cisneros uses a metaphor to emphasize the message of Esperanza not fully letting go of her past, “I put it down on  paper and then the ghost does not ache so much” (Cisneros 110).

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I connected most to “Papa Who Wakes Up Tired in the Dark”. My dad is also a hard-working person who has been waking up early in the morning to go to work. He has also lost his dad. This chapter made me cry a bit because it reminded me of how even though he looks like someone who is too strong to cry, he's still a human who has his weaknesses.

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I connected to the Vignette “Mango Says Goodbye Sometimes” because one day I would love to have a house of my own and be successful by doing something amazing. I want to leave to follow my dreams but come back to the people and family that had helped me along the way.

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I think there is a similarity between breaking out of the house on Mango Street and breaking grammar because if it was correct grammar, I’d assume she’d put “cannot get out”, not just “cannot out”. Also I think she is explaining she escaped Mango Street, but she is saying for the people who cannot get out of that place. That is why she is breaking grammar, because she left, but most didn’t leave.

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I think Cisneros chose to do this because of the hispanic population in Mango. Because going back to “No Speak English”, The lady did not want her baby to speak english. So I think Cisneros chose this to show that some people have a better chance of “escaping” Mango than others. “No speak English, she says to the child who is singing in the language that sounds like tin. No speak English, No speak English, and bubbles into tears. No, no, no, as if she can’t believe her ears” (Cisneros 78).

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I think Cisneros chose to do this because of the hispanic population in Mango. Because going back to “No Speak English”, The lady did not want her baby to speak english. So I think Cisneros chose this to show that some people have a better chance of “escaping” Mango than others. “No speak English, she says to the child who is singing in the language that sounds like tin. No speak English, No speak English, and bubbles into tears. No, no, no, as if she can’t believe her ears” (Cisneros 78).

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The main idea of “Mango Says Goodbye Sometimes” is that your past experiences build you into the person you are today.  Esperanza talks about her “ghost”(Cisneros 110) and how she's overcome them by using personification and saying “She does not hold me with both arms. She sets me free”(Cisneros 110). This emphasizes her message because it shows the house had tons of emotional attachment to it that just saying it regularly wouldnt be enough. Now she writes stories about her experiences to help other kids get their future because she never got the help.

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The “ghost” in this vignette is referring to her past challenges throughout her life. This “ghost” functions throughout the story many times. This affects Esperanza very positively and negatively because now she can look back and see all the adversity she has been through and say she made it out, but they are negative because she could also say she had such a bad past and she would be disappointed. It could also affect her mental health

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The “ghost” in this vignette is referring to her past challenges throughout her life. This “ghost” functions throughout the story many times. This affects Esperanza very positively and negatively because now she can look back and see all the adversity she has been through and say she made it out, but they are negative because she could also say she had such a bad past and she would be disappointed. It could also affect her mental health

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This mood is cheerful because she explains how when her mother holds her, she smells like nice bread right out the oven, and she also feels safe. I cannot with this most because I feel comfortable around my family most but also I’m cheerful often so I really like this vignette

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“And so she trudged up the wooden stairs, her sad brown shoes taking her to the house she never liked” signifies a sign of low-confidence in herself as a woman. When she says “My two shoes waiting beside the bed”, it shows she has grown as a person. She has grown into a strong and mature person who is more confident in herself.

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“And so she trudged up the wooden stairs, her sad brown shoes taking her to the house she never liked” signifies a sign of low-confidence in herself as a woman. When she says “My two shoes waiting beside the bed”, it shows she has grown as a person. She has grown into a strong and mature person who is more confident in herself.

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Esperanzas house would be a place where she owns her own things and isn't being told what to do by someone else. To Esperanza the most important characteristic is probably having her own space. Somewhere where she can have her own thoughts and her own privacy and quiet time.

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The “ghost”  Esperanza refers to in “Mango Says Goodbye Sometimes”(Cisneros 110) is her past. Throughout the book we see Esperanza go through many difficult things. Eventually we see that she overcomes some of her ghosts by becoming a writer, when she says “I write it down and mango says goodbye sometimes”(Cisneros 110).  These “ghosts” that Esperanza have made her into the person she is. Without them she wouldnt have stories to tell. These ghosts made Esperanza strong.

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The main message of “Mango Says Goodbye Sometimes” is about growing up. I feel like it shows a lot of messages hidden within the words. For example when Esperanza mentions leaving she mentions packing paper and books, which is kind of a reference to earlier vignettes, and how her mother tells her to study hard. It is also a reference to other vignettes when she mentions how she wants to be a storyteller. This is most likely foreshadowing to the readers that she is going to become an author. “One day I will pack my bags of books and paper. One day I will say goodbye to Mango. I am too strong for her to keep me here forever. One day I will go away” (Cisneros 110).

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The main message of “Mango Says Goodbye Sometimes” is about growing up. I feel like it shows a lot of messages hidden within the words. For example when Esperanza mentions leaving she mentions packing paper and books, which is kind of a reference to earlier vignettes, and how her mother tells her to study hard. It is also a reference to other vignettes when she mentions how she wants to be a storyteller. This is most likely foreshadowing to the readers that she is going to become an author. “One day I will pack my bags of books and paper. One day I will say goodbye to Mango. I am too strong for her to keep me here forever. One day I will go away” (Cisneros 110).

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Esperanza feels she is too strong for mango street. she wants to leave so she can find herself, she has tried to fit in but just can’t. She is well aware how different she is from the other kids on Mango Street. Esperanza is a very smart girl and takes notes in her head on everything. Although she is only 13 she is a very determined kid with many dreams and is determined to make those dreams come true.

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I think that I connected with “A Smart Cookie” the most. I think this because my mom always tells me about how she was really smart as a kid. Although my mom didn’t have it as bad as Esperanza’s mother did she always told me that if she had more opportunities, she could’ve done more in her life. She lived in a different country that didn’t offer as many opportunities that America has.  That’s why she always wants me to study and work to the best of my ability. Which is also what Esperanza’s mother wants for her. “Esperanza, you go to school. Study hard. That Madame Butterfly was a fool. She stirs the oatmeal. Look at my comadres. She means Izaura whose husband left and Yolanda whose husband is dead. Got to take care all your own, she says shaking her head” (Cisneros 91).

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I think that I connected with “A Smart Cookie” the most. I think this because my mom always tells me about how she was really smart as a kid. Although my mom didn’t have it as bad as Esperanza’s mother did she always told me that if she had more opportunities, she could’ve done more in her life. She lived in a different country that didn’t offer as many opportunities that America has.  That’s why she always wants me to study and work to the best of my ability. Which is also what Esperanza’s mother wants for her. “Esperanza, you go to school. Study hard. That Madame Butterfly was a fool. She stirs the oatmeal. Look at my comadres. She means Izaura whose husband left and Yolanda whose husband is dead. Got to take care all your own, she says shaking her head” (Cisneros 91).

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The nature of Esperanza’s Strength that releases her from the House on Mango Street, is her ability to write. Her ability to write, as we see towards the middle of the book, allows her to tell stories that don’t include Esperanza and, her ability to observe whats going on around her allows her to write. Then, by writing herself out of her stories she can detach herself from the House on Mango street.

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Cisneros chose to break the perceived rules of grammar to signify Esperaza’s breaking out Mango Street since this is a big moment and this is what she has been wanting since the beginning of the novel. The relation between breaking grammar and breaking out of Mango Street share similarities in that breaking grammar is something that people don’t do often so in a similar way breaking out of Mango Street from a poor family is something not everyone does.

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The ending of The House on Mango Street Completes a circle because it references that beginning while providing an ending.

Esperanza references back to the first vignette but she says she remembers Mango Street the most and how that's where she belongs but she does not belong to it. But she will break free of Mango Street only to come back for the ones she left behind, which is also cyclical because although she wants to leave and will leave, she has to come back for the one who can’t.

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The ending of The House on Mango Street completes a circle because in the beginning, Esperana was like everybody else who lived there. Everyone who lived on Mango street did not live  the best life because the neighborhood was very poor, with rundown houses and not the best neighbors. In the end, Esperanza wants to leave mango street because she wants to leave all the violence and poverty she faced while there, but after she leaves she wants to come back for those who can't make it out on their own. She wants to help them make it out because she knows how it's like to live in those circumstances. When Esperanza gets a new life, she shouldn't forget Mango Street made her who she will become when she has a better life.  “A circle, understand? You will always be Esperanza. You will always be Mango Street. You can't erase what you know. You can't forget who you are”(Cisneros 105).

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The ending of The House on Mango Street completes a circle because in the beginning, Esperana was like everybody else who lived there. Everyone who lived on Mango street did not live  the best life because the neighborhood was very poor, with rundown houses and not the best neighbors. In the end, Esperanza wants to leave mango street because she wants to leave all the violence and poverty she faced while there, but after she leaves she wants to come back for those who can't make it out on their own. She wants to help them make it out because she knows how it's like to live in those circumstances. When Esperanza gets a new life, she shouldn't forget Mango Street made her who she will become when she has a better life.  “A circle, understand? You will always be Esperanza. You will always be Mango Street. You can't erase what you know. You can't forget who you are”(Cisneros 105).

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Esperanza specifically did not want to belong to Mango street, instead of saying she doesn't belong to Mango street she says she doesn't want to, indicating she knows she already belongs there. Esperanza shares the same desires as everyone who lives in Mango Street which is to escape it to live a better life. No matter where she goes in life she will never actually escape where she came from because it became a part of her. “I don't ever want to come from here...Like it or not you are Mango Street”(Cisneros 106 & 107)

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Esperanza specifically did not want to belong to Mango street, instead of saying she doesn't belong to Mango street she says she doesn't want to, indicating she knows she already belongs there. Esperanza shares the same desires as everyone who lives in Mango Street which is to escape it to live a better life. No matter where she goes in life she will never actually escape where she came from because it became a part of her. “I don't ever want to come from here...Like it or not you are Mango Street”(Cisneros 106 & 107)

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Esperanza doesn’t want an apartment/flat. She wants to live in a house that is her own. A house that has a porch with her pillow and her books. She wants to have her shoes beside her bed. She doesn’t want to have to pick up anyone elses trash. She wants a place for herself to go to. The most important thing to Esperanza is never living in another mans house. She doesn’t want to follow in on those gender roles. She wants her own independence and never wants to be owned by a man or feel like she belongs to a man.

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Esperanza doesn’t want to belong to a man. She wants to be an independent women who is not tied down by a man. She doesn’t want to be controlled or be told what she can/cannot do ESPECIALLY by a man. Sallys experience helped show Esperanza exactly what she doesn’t want to end up living like. Sally is tied down to a man. She is not allowed outside of her home. She can only buy things when her husband gives her money. Another example is gender roles. In Esperanzas culture it is known that women do all the cooking, cleaning, etc. while the men work. Esperanza sees this everywhere and wishes to do everything she can to not turn out like the other women in her family/culture.

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I enjoyed “A Rice Sandwich” because the overall message of it was to appreciate the things you have, Esperanza was envious of the special kids who got to eat in a canteen and wanted to be like those kids who ate in the canteen. Even though Esperanza’s mother provided her with lunch, she wanted the lunch the special kids ate . I enjoyed this because it taught a universal message of appreciating what you have and not envying things other people have because you don't have it. “If I ate at school there'd be less dishes to wash. You would see me less and less and like me better”(Cisneros 44).

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I enjoyed “A Rice Sandwich” because the overall message of it was to appreciate the things you have, Esperanza was envious of the special kids who got to eat in a canteen and wanted to be like those kids who ate in the canteen. Even though Esperanza’s mother provided her with lunch, she wanted the lunch the special kids ate . I enjoyed this because it taught a universal message of appreciating what you have and not envying things other people have because you don't have it. “If I ate at school there'd be less dishes to wash. You would see me less and less and like me better”(Cisneros 44).

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Esperanza wants a safe, quiet, and clean house. She uses the word “my” a lot meaning that she wants the house all for herself, no husband that can order her around. Esperanza wants a safe home.