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The House On Mango Street
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Mango Street is a deceptive work. It is a book of short stories—and
sometimes not even full stories, but character sketches and vignettes—that
add up, as Sandra Cisneros has written, "to tell one big story, each story
contributing to the whole—like beads in a necklace." That story is told in
langua ....
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....rring metaphor for the gulf
between Mexican-Americans and the majority culture, what keeps Esperanza
Cordero and her family and friends locked in their barrio is something more
obdurate than language: a confluence of racism, poverty, and shame. It may
help your discussion to remind students that the ancestors of many Chicanos
did not come to the United States by choice, but simply found themselves in
alien territory as a result of the U.S.'s expansionist policy into country
that had once been Me.... |
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