"The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros tells the coming-of-age story of Esperanza Cordero, a young Latina girl growing up in a Chicago neighborhood. Through a series of vignettes, Esperanza reflects on her experiences with poverty, identity, gender roles, and cultural expectations. She describes her dreams of escape from her circumstances and her desire for a house of her own, symbolizing her quest for independence and self-definition. The narrative unveils the challenges she faces as a girl in a patriarchal society and highlights the strength and resilience of women in her community. [Generated by language model - please report any problems].

This book is part of a book series called Social Issues in Literature .

This book has been graded for interest at 15-17 years.

There are 184 pages in this book.

It is aimed at Young Adult readers. The term Young Adult (YA) is used for books which have the following characteristics: (1) aimed at ages 12-18 years, US grades 7-12, UK school years 8-15, (2) around 50-75k words long, (3) main character is aged 12-18 years, (4) topics include self-reflection, internal conflict vs external, analyzing life and its meaning, (5) point of view is often in the first person, and (6) swearing, violence, romance and sexuality are allowed.

This book was published in 2010 by Cengage Gale .

CLAUDIA DURST JOHNSON is Professor of English at the University of Alabama, where she chaired the English Department for 12 years. She is the author of the forthcoming volumes in the Greenwood Press Literature in Context series, Understanding the Scarlet Letter and Understanding Huckleberry Finn . She is also author of To Kill a Mockingbird: Threatening Boundaries (1994), American Actress. Perspective on the Nineteenth Century (1984), (with Vernon E. Johnson) Memoirs of the Nineteenth-Century Theatre (Greenwood, 1982), The Productive Tension of Hawthorne's Art (1981), and (with Henry Jacobs) An Annotated Bibliography of Shakespearean Burlesques, Parodies, and Travesties (1976), as well as numerous articles on American literature.