The House on Mango Street. The house on Mango Street is a very good book for anyone to read. The author, Sandra Cisneros who started by writing a serie a of vignettes and ended up making a book that is loved by many people. I would recommend this to people. I feel that people should read it because people have so many different opinions on it and they can all talk about it, talk about what they liked and what they didn’t like, they could all just talk about it and just like connect with each other.

     The House On Mango Street tells the story of Esperanza Cordero. Esperanza is a young Latina girl who is growing up in Chicago. While growing up in chicago and meeting and experiencing different things she is inventing for herself who and what she will become. There are many different characters in the book but some in the major characters are Esperanza, her mom, her dad, Nenny, Rachel, Lucy, Sally, Marin, Alicia, and Cathy. The setting mostly takes place in their neighborhood in Chicago, around her house on Mango Street.

     Although I liked the book, there are some things I didn’t like about it. One thing I liked about the book is that it tells the different stories of many people. Another thing I like about the book is that it is told through Esperanza’s point of view.  I also liked how the chapters are short and they just get to the point. I didn’t dislike many things but the main thing is just like small things, like some small things they say throughout the book that I just didn’t like or they just made me a little uncomfortable and I would just get confused a lot. That was really the only thing I didn’t like, other than that everything was great.

     The writing style was a narrative. It was wrote like Esperanza was the one telling the whole story. The story is basically just Esperanza telling her like life story or like the things she feels were important to share. I feel like the author’s purpose was to just entertain the reader or something like that. There are many different characters that we get to meet through Esperanza’s eyes. She meets many different people throughout the book, the text states, “Cathy who is queen of cats has cats and cats and cats. Baby cats, big cats, skinny cats, sick cats. Cats asleep like little donuts. Cats on top if the refrigerator. Cats taking a walk on the dinner table. Her house is like cat heaven,” we can imagine what Cathy’s house looks like through Esperanza’s point of view, so throughout the story we can see things how Esperanza sees them.

     In conclusion I would recommend this book to people, and not just people of a certain age but people of all different ages. I really liked the House on Mango Streets and there were just a few things I didn’t like. Anyways we all have different opinions on things so you could end up liking the things I didn’t like. This is a very good book, telling the story of Esperanza who is a Latina girl who isn’t very rich. The House On Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros is a book that has no age limit, something that many people can enjoy.