The House on Mango Street (1983)
The House on Mango Street (1983)
Sandra Cisneros, 1954-
The Ohio State University Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, Part of the Charvat Collection of American Literature
PS3553.I8 H68 1983
Dedicated “A las Mujeres” or “To the Women,” The House on Mango Street is a story of a young Chicana girl growing up in Chicago. Like the other books, this was also written by an adult, but this book differs from the others in that it was written from a perspective of a girl. So instead of offering examples of how a girl should behave in the third person, The House on Mango Street allows girls to tell the story, and the reader can put herself in the story. Girls can then find shared experiences from their own girlhoods as well as different perspectives on the same stage of life. And as the main character struggles to find her place in society, young girls who read her story are taught to question and fight against the expected gender roles they are placed in.