The Gist
The House on Mango Street is a book written entirely in little stories called vignettes. It tells the story of Esperanza, a girl uncomfortable with the house she has living on Mango Street, and her adventures (or sometimes her misadventures).
What We Think
What We Think
Reviewed by Living Destiny
Number of Pages: 128
We read this book for school. I was forced. In all honesty, I didn’t like it at all. It wasn’t the way it was written, because I’ve read other books written in that story that weren’t bad. I really don’t know why I didn’t like it just rubbed me the wrong way I guess. There were a couple little bits I like, but other than that it did nothing for me. Esperanza, the main character, gets into a lot of trouble, but not in the normal ways. She is attacked physically multiple times throughout the book, and it horrified me a little bit. Her friends are either whiny or bad influences. She doesn’t talk about her family much. The book has way too much figurative language. I don’t object to a little bit here and there, but it was like half the book. Overall it was confusing and hard to read, and I was glad when it was over.
Real Teen Rating~ D: read it if your bored…I guess…
Reviewed by The North Star
Reviewed by The North Star
I also had to read this for school and when our teacher introduced this book another girl in my class says, “OHHH no not the house on mango street”. We all turned to him and asked her why she didn’t like and she couldn’t give us an answer and from them it was all down-hill. The book was written in a strange way and Sandra didn’t really make the connection with the audience that she needed to make and that was with the main character. No matter what happened to Esperanza I personally didn’t care. She could have robbed a bank and just because of the writting style that the author was using it would have been boring to read. Nothing about this book appealed to me except I liked the monkey garden that she goes to, to relax in. Besides that it was about 100pgs and each chapter was only 2-3 pgs, so if the chapter was longer than that it was a pain to read it. I’m sorry Sandra Cisneros.
Real Teen Rating~F: Don’t even bother!
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