Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Walking On Mango Street?
Regarding what we have read in The House On Mango Street so far, juxtapose Esperanza's experience with your own experience. What connection(s) can you establish? Can you identify with some of her reflection and concern? Please use a quotation from the text to support or defend your claim.
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I connected when Esperanza said that her and her sister had similar laughs, because thats how me and my sisters are. We all have pretty obnoxious or awkward laugher. Me and my siblings don't look super alike, but we have a lot of traits that make us similar, beyond our appearance.
Where I connected with Esperanza was when she was talking about how she and her sister are alike. When she and her sister walked by a house, Esperanza said it reminded her of Mexico. Then she stated, "I'm not even sure why I thought it, but it seemed to feel right." Her sister replied, "Yes, that's Mexico all right. That's what I was thinking exactly." My sister and I think in a similar way. No matter how random or weird it may be, we usually think the same thing and laugh at the same jokes. We are very alike all the way around- we even look a lot alike, too.
I connected with Esperanza when she was describing her house; "Bricks are crumbling in places, and the front door is so swollen you have to push hard to get in." Now,although my house sounds nothing likes this and its not falling apart, but it is very quiet small compared to my other friends houses that have like four floors and ours only has two, and is a town home. i just connect with her here because i know what its like to descrbe your house to some one and wishing you were speaking different words other than its small and swollen.
I related with esperanza in the chapter Laughter. When she desribes how her and her sister have nothing alike but there laugh. This reminds me of me and my sister because we don't have much in common, but the things we do have in common are very odd and distinct.
I have conected with her because sometimes I wish that I could live in a different home because Eeperanza said "But the house on Mango Street is not the way they told it at all" some times i get told a fib like this is going to be amzing and it turns out that its really not
i conected with her but i am alike my uncle not like my sister my whole family calls me my uncles name becauyse we are sp much alike that it is allmost weird we like the exect same things.
how Esperanza shared similarities with her sister connects with how I'm similar with my siblings. The similarities might not be good, such as Esperanza and her sister's laughter are discribed as broken dishware. Me and my siblings are stubborn which isn't that good either. But it's what makes you and your siblings unique. and that's fun.
i connected when Esperanza said she was like her sister because me and my older brother have so much in common, we have gotten in trouble for many of the same things and we like a lot of the same stuff.
I can connect with Esperanza when she talks about her family members hair. In my family we all have different styled and types of hair. in the story when it states "Mama's hair smells like bread," we have different kinds of shampoo so our hair has a certain scents of our own, kind of like her mothers.
I connected with Esperanza in the chapter "Hair" because i am really good at remembering specific detail and small things about siblings. Like how espersanze distinctly remembers how her family members smelled and what they looked like.
When Esperanza said that she and her sister had similar laughs, I could connect with her because my sister and I also have similar laughs and voices. Although we do look alike, there are things beyond our appearances that we could relate to.
esparanza and i are alike because people always say that my sister and i are so much alike. including our laugh. my sister hates when people say this because we are mortal enamies most of the time. esperanza and i are diffrent though because her family actually likes her.
I relate to Esperanza with the chapter laughs. My sister and I don't look anything alike but we have the same laughs just like Esperanza and her sister did. "Nenny and I don' look like sisters...not right away....But me and Nenny, we are more alike than you would know. Our laughter for example.
Page 8 "And since she comes after me, she is my own responsibility." I like Esperanza have I little sister and we both live in a family of six...mom, dad, Caitlin, Meaghan, Erin, and me. Erin is my responsibility I am the one that comforts her when she comes home crying, the one who has done the same homework twice, mine when I was younger and then helping her with hers, I am the one who tells her to be careful and the one who picks up the pieces when it goes wrong. In these times, like Esperanza I don't think of her as a friend. I sometimes become frustrated but do it anyways because she partially my own responsibility.
I connected with Esperanza when she metioned that her sister and her had the same laughs. My best friend and I have known each other for a long time. As time passed we had copied each others laugh. We both act like sisters and some have gotten us confuesed as sisters or being related.
The connection I've made with Esperanza is that she is sad and not wanting to live on mango street. It's going through a hard part of life and having to get over it even though you want to hid and not deal with it.
i connected with esperanza when she said that her and her sister had simalar laughs. My brother and i are almost identical even though he is four years older than me we sound the same too.
i connected with Esperanza when she was talking about the similaritys of how her sister and her are alike. My sister and i some times share the same view point of things that others don't see at all, like when Esperanza said that house reminded her of mexico.
I could possibly connect my experience as living in a house that I didn't like much. I use to live at my Grandma's prior to High School, and it was a small/moderate sized. The place could have used a few more improvements to look like a far more excellent house than it is now. And that the people in the neighborhood usually were not the greatest people in the State of Colorado.
I connected when she talked about all the different hair in her family. It's exactly like my family. We each have our own style and texture to our hair that makes us all look different.
I related with Esparanza because in the Chapter "Gil's furnature bought and sold" she finds sentimental value in the most simple item there. I am like that too because I can find a lot of sentimental value in the most simple of objects. Also, because both her and Nenny were connected to the value in this item. Me and my sisters are like Nenny and Esparanza also.
When she said she felt like a red balloon i felt a instant connection. she feels extreme loneliness,and because she will always be searching for company, she will be a prisoner. I felt an emendate connection.
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