Term Papers on The House On MAngo Street

Term Paper Title	The House On MAngo Street
# of Words	958
# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	3.83

The House On MAngo Street

Everyone has specific characteristics and qualities that make them the way they present themselves.  Young, middle-aged, and old people are constantly forming the essentials that affect their self-awareness through their daily activities.  Forming one’s identity is an ongoing process, because every person in the world can change people one way or another.  In The House on Mango Street, the experiences young Esperanza faced day to day develop her true individuality.
Young people are easily persuaded and if someone so desired, they could mold them into the person they want.  Commonly, young children develop their identity from going the school, playing with other children, and from their home life.  When children go to school, if they are teased for being ethnic, colored, unkempt or anything else, this could cause them to be introverted, or ashamed of how they present themselves.  On the other hand, the constant teasing from schoolmates may begin to brew strong feelings of anger.  If they are rejected by society, when they are just starting to form an identity, this will probably have a negative effect upon them and their surrounding communities.
     The identity, also, comes largely from the family, neighborhood and a small crowd of friends.  A supportive and functional home life will be positive to a little child’s identity.  If children see their parents fighting, the neighborhood they live in is a slum, they are around drugs and addictions, and then most likely the children’s identity will be affected negatively.  Neighborhood friends can be negative influences also.  They could pressure others to smoke, do drugs, or simply be the wrong crowd to get mixed up with, and in return, will cause nothing but trouble.  The opposite could happen, and friends could be positive influences.  For example, if the children are intelligent, enrolled in school, come from good homes and have their heads on straight then their identity will be properly formed.
     The character, Esperanza, in The House on Mango Street has Mexican roots and her heritage is the center of her identity.  Her name means “hope,” in Spanish, but she is embarrassed by such an uncommon and ethnic name.  She says, “I would like to be baptize myself under a new name, a name more like the real me, the one nobody sees” (11).  People in her neighborhood are always being stereotyped as dangerous and troublesome people.  Esperanza is not like all of the other people she lives near.  The bums try to kiss the neighborhood girls, children smoke cigarettes and husbands are abusive, but Esperanza knows this will not happen to her later on in life.  Also, she will not be a boy crazy teenager, because she feel...

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