The House on Mango Street

The book I read was The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. The main character of the novel is Esperanza.

The novel is about, a young girl who looks at life from experience of living in poverty, where many do not question their experience. She is a shy, but very bright girl. She dreams of the perfect home, with beautiful flowers and a room for everyone. Before she moved to Mango Street she lived on Loomis on the third floor and before that house she lived on Keeler. When she moves to the house of Mango Street, reality is so different than the dream. The difference about the house on Mango Street and the ones before are that they don’t have to pay rent, there is no land lord bugging them for being loud. They also don’t have to share a yard with the people downstairs because no one lives down stairs it’s there house.

Based on the novel, the characteristic of the main character that related is do not like live in an apartment. As living in an apartment, there no yard that I can spend my time by helping my mother decorates the garden with beautiful flowers. Besides, my younger sister and brother love to play around my home yard.