Dbq On The House On Mango Street

What is the biggest obstacle to reaching the American dream? The House On Mango Street is a book written by Sandra Cisneros and is narrated by Esperanza a poor Hispanic girl who lives in Chicago, Esperanza also portrays the author. According to Cisneros, each vignette comes together to tell a big story just “like beads on a necklace,” Cisneros uses personal experiences and puts them in each vignette. Each vignette is different, However, some vignettes are similar because they have characters who can’t achieve the American dream. But what is stopping them? What is the biggest problem that is keeping them from living the American dream? According to Document A: The House on Mango Street, Document B: A Smart Cookie, and Document C: No Speak English the biggest obstacle to achieving the American dream is poverty.
Corroboration in document A: The House on Mango Street that poverty is the biggest obstacle is the fourth paragraph that states, “This was the house Papa talked about when he held a lottery ticket and this was the house Mama dreamed up in the stories she told us before we went to bed.” This paragraph is significant because it shows how Esperanza wants to live the American dream and live in her dream house, but doesn’t have enough money and so it kind of starts to turn into a fairy tale that her mom tells her when she is …show more content…
The sentence that influenced me proclaimed, “Shame is a bad thing, you know. It keeps you down. You want to know why I quit school? Because I didn’t have nice clothes. No clothes, but I had brains.” This sentence is significant because it shows how Esperanza’s mom didn’t have enough money to buy nice clothes so she stopped going to school, but if she had money to buy nice clothes she would’ve stayed in school and then get a good job that pays well and then buy her dream house but she didn’t do all of that due to lack of

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