The house on Mango Street: Vignette analysis assignment

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I) Summary

II) Analysis

III) Personal question

I) Summary

When Esperanza’s mama comes back of the shopping, she confesses that she forgot the shoes for her. Esperanza is very disappointed by her mother’s forgetting. She wanted these shoes because they had a baptism party with their family, and she needed new shoes for dancing.

When the party started, everybody is enjoying except Esperanza, because she is wearing all her clothes new, except her shoes. She thought that anybody would dance with her, meanwhile, her cousin asked her it. Then, she danced with her uncle, and she imagined that everyone is watching them because they are dancing like in the movies.

When she comes back with her mother, she thought that she’s proud of her, and that a boy watched her all the night.

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II) Analysis

In this chapter, one theme which stands in the heart of Esperanza is that of the shoes. Indeed, she had a family party: her cousin baptism. For this event, her mother bought her a new outfit, but she forgot new shoes. So Esperanza is obliged to wear her school shoes, which are “ordinary shoes, brown and white.” When she has to dance with a boy during the party, she thought that her shoes would prevent her for dancing.

I think that these thought are little girl’s thought, because it’s only on this age that things like this invade our minds.

Like the chapter “And some more”, we saw in class, the girls are talking about things like the different name of things, the different forms of cumulus…, discussions for children.

III) Personal question

• Write about a time when your shoes and clothing made feel uncomfortable.

It was a time, when my mum bought me clothes and shoes I didn’t like, I felt uncomfortable in them. Because when you wear things, you must to like it, to be able to admire