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https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_ngozi_adichie_we_should_all_be_feminists?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare

This link shows a Ted Talk that was given about feminism. I find this to be beneficial because it explains the way that women have grown and how we're beginning to back away from the idea that women can't and shouldn't do as many things as men.

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Standing up for what you believe in is a good thing. Women all around the world now are starting to change how the past has been stand up for what they want to be instead of getting forced into what they want to do. Just in the past year, there are getting to be more women's sports teams all around the world, we have our new vice-president as a women which is the first time ever for the country, and the USA women's soccer team has striked against their organization the to get the same wages as the men's team does for doing the same exact thing, to play soccer. As a man looking at all of this, it takes a lot of courage to come out and ask for change so when I see all of this happening, it just applaud for coming out and looking to change how these customs have been usually run

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The roles of women are not only an import theme in the book but, they are a crucial part of my life. Being a woman allows me to relate well to the theme. I feel sympathetic towards the female characters in the novel because their only roles were to cater to men and take care of their children. The narrator challenges the roles that women were expected to carry out during the time. If people who thought like Esperanza didn't exist women wouldn't have as many rights or achieved as many accomplishments as we have. Cisneros' feminist view allows readers to understand misogyny from an aspiring young woman's point of view. This is crucial to our world today to ensure that there are equal opportunities for both men and women.

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Did Esperanza develop her need to challenge the societal ways of the time from other women? What made her want to be different?

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Other than Esperanza and her grandmother, did any of the other women in the story feel oppressed?

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How old was Esperanza when she finally matured and took on the role of a woman?

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"The man had to pull her, the taxicab driver had to push. Push, pull. Push, pull.
Poof!" (Cisneros  76-77)

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"But Sally doesn't tell about that time he hit her with his hands just like a dog, she said, like if I was an animal." (Cisneros 92)
Cisneros uses this simile to describe how animalistic Sally's beatings are. Sally is being treated like she is worthless, which relates to our theme.

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"She is always sad like a house on fire - always something wrong." (Cisneros 84)

The use of this simile helps the reader understand the amount of sadness that Minerva was having.

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"Out stepped a tiny pink shoe, a foot soft as a rabbit's ear, then the thick ankle, a Rutter of hips, fuchsia roses and green perfume." (Cisneros 76)

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"Mamacita is the big mama of the man across the street, third-floor front"(Cisneros 76).
Cisneros uses diction by choosing  to use the name Mamacita. Her purpose in this is to further express this character's love and value for her culture.

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"It is the Mexican records my father plays on Sunday mornings" (Cisneros 10)

This metaphor that was included in the text helps emphasize the way that Esperanza viewed her name.

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Throughout the whole story, Esperanza is always talking about the people that are living around her and how their family life is. Many of those women that she has been talking about are standing up for themselves and are going against the roles women have taken in the past. From all those people, Esperanza after each person she talks about learns that she should also take a stand for women's rights and do what she would want to do, not what the customs were for her parents and her great-grandparents. From her mom telling her to "Esperanza, you go to
school. Study hard" to her grandmother trying to take a stand and not get married with kids and lastly to Alicia who is now going to college trying to get a job that women usually don't get instead of inheriting her mother's rolling pin.

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"And anyway, a woman's place is sleeping so she can wake up early with the tortilla star, the one that appears early just in time to rise and catch the hind legs behind the sink, beneatht he four clawed tub, under the swollen floorboards nobody fixes, in the corner of your eyes"(Cisneros 31).
Cisneros uses personification to illustrate how women were expected to behave.

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"My great-grandmother. I would've liked to have known her, a wild horse of a woman, so wild she wouldn't marry. Until my great grandfather threw a sack over her head and carried her off. Just like that, as if she were a fancy chandelier. That's the way he did it. And the story goes she never forgave him. She looked I out the window her whole life, the way so many women sit their sadness on an elbow. "
In this vignette, Esperanza would have loved to get to know her great-grandmother. But instead of getting the time to see her, she was taken away by a guy that really wanted to marry her. She never wanted to marry and she just wanted to live by herself and have nothing to worry about. But when you are in the times they live in, the women is suppose to get married and have kids. Esperanza's great-grandmother was trying to break that chain but got taken so instead of doing what most women did back then, she just sat and looked out the window for the rest of her life.

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When I reflect on our specific theme from the "House on Mango Street", I realize how prominent these sexist thoughts are in our society. Women in the novel are meant to take care of the kids and look pretty while doing it. They were forced to rely on the man/men in the home, rather than being allowed to be independent. This, at the same time, enrages and motivates me. Reading about all of the horrific ideals women had to suffer through makes me feel sorry for the women that came before me. Although, this is a horrible reality for those women, it pushed them to speak up and stronger than ever before. Even today, a woman and man in the same higher up position, the woman most likely worked harder than the man to get there. This horrific time period made the women today strong enough to reach some of the highest offices in the government. This novel humbled me and made me believe that women can do anything that we put our minds too.

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"Sally says she likes being married because now she gets to buy her own things when her husband gives her money." (Cisneros 101).

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"But Sally doesn't tell about that time he hit her with his hands just like a dog, she said, like if I was an animal. He thinks I'm going to run away like his sisters who made the family ashamed. Just because I'm a daughter . . ." (Cisneros 92).

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When reflecting on this specific theme that is found in House on Mango Street, I can say without a doubt that this is one of the most important themes to me. Due to the fact that I am a female myself, I found it interesting to get a glimpse of the differing ways women are viewed based on the time period and locations. It is safe to say that women in this novel are seen as weak and incapable, but I strongly disagree with this statement and I believe that women can work very hard and do as they please without a man's help. Even though the novel is presenting the idea that women do need men's assistance, it is important that women understand the way that they were once viewed so that we can grow and learn to appreciate the steps that we've made towards equality when it comes to discrimination made towards us simply based on our gender.

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"Then out of nowhere: Shame is a bad thing, you know. It keeps you down. You want to know why I quit school? Because I didn't have nice clothes. No clothes, but I had brains. Yup. she says disgusted, stirring again. I was a smart cookie then."
In this vignette and quote, Esperanza's mother starts to think about how she could have been somebody because she speaks 2 languages, can sing, and knows how to fix a T.V. But as she's cooking oatmeal for the family, she tells Esperanza to not drop out of school like she did. She doesn't want to have her daughter grow up to be like her, be really smart and go somewhere but just drop out to fall back into the category of what women do. She wants Esperanza to go out and find a job so she can live and do anything without regret.

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Literary Elements:   "horse woman" -metaphor 

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Literary Elements:   "horse woman" -metaphor 

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This metaphor is used to describe a wild or untamable woman.
Cisneros further develops the theme by incorporating this metaphor into the description of how women were supposed to behave.

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Theme Development: "Minerva Writes poems"

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Theme Development: "Minerva Writes poems"

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"But that night he comes back and sends a big rock through the window. Then he is sorry and she opens the door again. Same story. Next week she comes over black and blue and asks what she can do? Minerva. I don't know which way she'll go. There is nothing I can do. " (Cisneros 84)

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"I could've been somebody, you know? my mother says and sighs." (Cisneros 90)

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"The man saved his money to bring her here. He saved and saved because she was alone with the baby in that country. He worked two jobs. He came home late and left early. Everyday" (Cisneros 76).

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Theme Development: "Alicia Who Sees Mice"

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Theme Development: "Alicia Who Sees Mice"

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" a woman's place is sleeping so she can wake up early with the tortilla star, the one that appears early just in time to rise and catch the hind legs hide behind the sink, beneath the four-clawed tub, under the swollen floorboards nobody fixes, in the corner of your eyes." (Cisneros 31)

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"Alicia, who inherited her mama's rolling pin and sleepiness, is young and smart and studies for the first time at the university. Two trains and a bus, because she doesn't want to spend her life in a factory or behind a rolling pin."
In this quote, Alicia mom had died and she was going to inherit her mom's rolling pin. As her mom died, there is now nobody to make the food around the house. It would now move to the oldest which would be Alicia. She is in university studying trying to get a job that a women would not usually take and is trying to break the rules of women's society by getting a job outside of her house that isn't dealing with cooking or go to a factory and do dirty work.

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"Marin says that if she stays here next year, she's going to get a real job downtown because that's where the best jobs are, since you always get to look beautiful and get to wear nice clothes and can meet someone in the subway who might marry you and take you to live in a big house far away"(Cisneros 26).

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"She was a horse-woman too, born like me in the Chinese year of the horse - which is supposed to be bad luck if you're born female - but I think this is a Chinese lie because the Chinese, like the Mexicans, don't like their women strong." (Cisneros 10)

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When focusing on the roles of women throughout the novel "House on Mango Street," it is evident that the reoccurring theme of women throughout the book is that women were expected to stay at home all day and look pretty or cook and clean rather than be strong and do things on their own for themselves without the assistance of a man.