Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Walking On Mango Street?
Regarding what we have read in The House On Mango Street so far, juxtapose Esperanza's experience with your own experience. What connection(s) can you establish? Can you identify with some of her reflection and concern? Please use a quotation from the text to support or defend your claim.
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I can relate to Esperanza because in a way in my family the boys are "in separate worlds" (p. 8)because my brothers are all older than me and have already graduated and i am only with my sisters now. I can also relate to her because I also recieved my name from my grandma.
Esperanza is not like other girls, she is different, but I can make many connections with her. Esperanza feels like she doesn’t have any friends, and it kind of reminded me of when I first started middle school, I didn’t have any friends. Also, Esperanza said that she doesn’t like her name, because it was her grandmother's name. I sometimes don’t like my name either, because it is really different from other names, and people always miss pronounce it, and so sometimes I wish I had a different name. Esperanza has also moved many times, and it’s hard for her because she never stays in the same place for more than a year. It reminds me of how we moved four times when we got to Colorado. Overall, Esperanza is really different from other girls, but I have many connections with her.
I can relate to Esperanza because i have a brother and when he is at home he talk as loud as he want to me and won't be shy at anything but when we are at a place he talks like he is a very shy person. I can also relate by, there use to be a person that was kinda of my friend living as my neighbor but then she sundenly moved and told me nothing about it and sundenly another person lives there.
I can realte to Esparanza because my brother is always very protective of me and communicates with me more rather then when we are at school or out somewhere when it is not just our family. " My brothers for example. They've got plenty to say to me and Nenny inside the house. But outside they can't be seen talking to girls." This is not exactly how it works, but is comes to be very close.
I can relate to Esperanza because I know how it feels to not have much money. Also when I'm at school I can seem quiet and reserved. But when I'm at home I'm a lot more vocal. So in a way I'm kind of like her brothers. I also have had a time when it seemed like everybody around me was moving away.
Brothers is the word that comes to mind when i think about my relation with Esperanza. See, she has older brothers that lives in "separate worlds" (on page 8) For my brothers and I we live in separate worlds because i never know what he is up to know a days. I think that he tells me everything but he doesn't! Also he acts so different around me when we are out of the house, as said in the book as well, "the boys in their universe and we in ours." My brothers do talk to me in person outside of the house but his attitude is so much different then "inside the house" like two different worlds.
I can relate to Esperanza because on page 9 it says,"My brothers for example, they've got plenty to say to me and Nenny inside the house. But outside the house they can't be seen talking to girls." My brother used to not talk to me at school when we were younger because he didn't want to be seen talking to a girl.
In all honesty, Esperanza and I don't have very much in common. She hopes for a better life, she has brothers, older siblings, and she is ashamed of where she comes from. I love where I live and I am
content with my life fully. I cannot relate with her on having brothers because I do not have any. I also do not have any older siblings. One way though, to relate to her is my sister. My sister and I do not look very much alike. Our similarities are how we have connected personalities. At first we are shy but then we become weird and outgoing. This relates to Esperanza because the only thing she has similar with her younger sister is their laughter, "... But me and Nenny are more alike than you would know. Our laughter for example."
I feel like I can relate to Esperanza. She seems very unique and poetic in her words and I love to write poetry. I like the way she describes things and the word choice she uses. For example,
"It's like all of a sudden he let go a million moths all over the dusty furniture and swan-neck shadows and in our bones. It's like drops of water. Or like marimbas only with a funny little plucked sound to it like if you were running your fingers across the teeth of a metal comb."
This paragraph made me want to write something that unique, so visual.
I can relate to Esperanza in many ways. We've both moved a lot for example on page 3 she says, "But what I remember most is moving a lot." Also when I first started a new school in 8th grade I had no friends. "Someday I will have a bestfriend all my own. One I can tell my secrets to."
I know how Esperanza feels about being the odd ball out. I am the youngest in my family and everyone has graduated from high school and are in college, i feel left out and a little ignored at times. Also i know what its like to be in a new place. I have been in the same middle/elementary school all my childhood to be the new kid for the first time in 10 years is hard... My parents expect me to be the smart student who gets good grades in everything but I don't know what high school is like well enough to know all the ropes. Esperanza feels left out and is embarresed to be in the lime light and I can really connect with her on that.
I know how Esperanza feels about being the odd ball out. I am the youngest in my family and everyone has graduated from high school and are in college, i feel left out and a little ignored at times. Also i know what its like to be in a new place. I have been in the same middle/elementary school all my childhood to be the new kid for the first time in 10 years is hard... My parents expect me to be the smart student who gets good grades in everything but I don't know what high school is like well enough to know all the ropes. Esperanza feels left out and is embarresed to be in the lime light and I can really connect with her on that.
I can relate to Esperanza in manyh ways, i like how she discribed her sefl as a red balloon tied to an anchor. Its a great metaphoe because every teen wans to do do stuff but they cant because they are still little
I can relate to Esperanza in many ways. She seems shy like me and not content with her life. I think everybody can not feel satisfied with their life. They may want things they cant have. I am a shy person, but when im with my friends or family im always a loud crazy person. I also found a connection in Esperanzas name. She said she didnt like it that people garbled it up, and that it was to long and weird. I don't think my name Ariana is weird, its unusual but i still like it. Yes many people say it weird and sometimes even call me adrianna but i dont get mad. I enjoy my name because it is unique, there are few people with that name. Esperanza should be proud of her name, her latin hertitage and her family.
I can't really relate with Esperanza because I have lived in the same house since I was three and I don't even remember our old house. Also I don't go to a Catholic school and my neighborhood is the best.
the things that we read about the house on mango street, i feel like i have some connection with Esperanza, because i feel like her when i came to live to Colorado, i feel kind of strange like her, with no friends, thats why i think that this story they have connection with me, because i know for how many things you have to pass trough when you change to another state, or when people they talks to you and you don't understand what they are talking about.
i can relate to esperanza because she doesn't like her name. i used to hate mine, i was made fun of for being clutzy. but i've learened how to like my name for it's origonality. but espereanza is not optimistic so she looks at the negative meanings of her name, instead of the english meaning of hope.
I really can relate to esperanza because when i was little i lived in New York. Then moved to Colorado at the age of 10 months.Then i lived in colorado i lived in a house right in my grandmas neighborhod.Then we moved in to the house over in engelwood. i lived there since the 6th grade. Then in the year of 2005 we moved into the house i live in now. No of thehouses i lived in were ever in bad neighborhods. I've been really lucky for that. So i can relate to esperanza on moving alot but living in not great neighborhods i can't relate
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