Sandra Cisneros The House on Mango Street
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“The house on Mango Street is ours, and we don’t have to pay rent to anybody, or share the yard with the people downstairs, or be careful not to make too much noise, and there isn’t a landlord banging on the ceiling with a t broom. But even so, it’s not the house we’d thought we’d get.”
They owned their own house for the fist time. It was free of the annoyances of renting; yet it did not live up to the standard of what she had dreamed of. It was not perfect when compared to what others had.
Sandra Cisneros The House on Mango Street
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“You live there? The way she said it made me feel like nothing. There. I lived there. I nodded.”
This was interesting because most people have had the same experience. A simple shift in the tone of voice can make you feel ashamed of something you never thought to be ashamed of. It is a lot harder the make that shame go away then it is to inspire it. It is practically hard on a child to see your life from an outside perspective for the first time.
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