Philip's review
The House on Mango Street
by Sandra Cisneros
Philip's review
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Philip's review
rating:
Previously I had given this book 3 stars - a measly "liked it" - for lack of remembering the content residing therein this book of vignettes. My 14-year-old mind was unable to measure any significant depth of Sandra Cisneros’s novel. Perhaps the former notions of my mind satisfied the first level of reading and understanding Mango Street; I was only able to grasp it at a child's learning, which inevitably summed this book into another, boring, summer-reading-book-for-honors-English.
Now, after 6 years of personal growth and identity searching, Cisneros has gently whispered her childhood into my ears, and has made the mundane, once again, beautiful. She reveals the powerful struggle of getting out of the ghetto, and portrays how the ghetto will "always love her back."
Favorite vignette: The Three Sisters
Now, after 6 years of personal growth and identity searching, Cisneros has gently whispered her childhood into my ears, and has made the mundane, once again, beautiful. She reveals the powerful struggle of getting out of the ghetto, and portrays how the ghetto will "always love her back."
Favorite vignette: The Three Sisters
