Short Story Review

1121-5436 Short Story review

here is the document we drafted in class.  Feel free to reply with additional entries to add to the information in the document.

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The House On Mango Street Response

House On Mango Street was about a girl who is always constantly moving from one apartment to another. She always dreamed of living in a big comfortable house and her parents keep telling her that it will happen one day. She discusses what she disliked about the last apartments she lived at, and what she would like her dream home to have. Things such as the fixed water pipes, real stairs, more bedrooms, and a yard. Basically, she doesn’t want her dream home to have the same problems her past homes have had.

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The House on Mango Street

This story  is  about  a  girl  and  her  family who  moves  from  place  to  place.  The  family  is poor  because  of  their  harsh  living  conditions.  Throughtoout  the  story  she  explains  how  humilating  she’s  with  the  situation.  So  they  move  to  a  house  on  Mango  street, in  which she  thinks  it’s  a  beautiful  house.  But later  on  she  finds  out  it’s  all  like  the  rest.  She  realized  that  it  won’t  be better  until  she  gets  her  own  house.

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The House On Mango Street

This short story was sad and it made me feel like i could connect with the man character because everyone has financial troubles from time to time and they wish they had something more. It’s the classic american dream to want a house with a big yard and to have a place where it feels safe. A place to be proud of. I felt really bad at the end when the nun asked where she lived. No one should make you fell that way. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”- Eleanor Roosevelt

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The house on Mango Street

The house of mango street is about a girl and her family.  We get the impression that she is poor because of their living conditions.  They move from place to place, but she is place is just as worst as the last.  the little girl then finds out that she is moving into a house.  She get excited because she believes it is a beautiful house.  However once reaching their she discovers it is the same as the rest.  She decides that when she will have a house of her own it will be one she is proud of.

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The House on Mango Street

This story was very short, but it had lot of descriptions describing the environment that the little girl was living in. Story begins with a girl being a narrator, telling the readers that her family moved a lot.  Then they moved to a house on Mango Street due to the water pipe damage in their house in Loomis street. The condition of the house was very poor, however the girl’s parents would say positive things to the kids to give them hope.  When the nun passed by and asked the little girl where she lived, the nun was shocked by the view of the house.  Then the little girl realized that she wants a real house, that she can point to and be proud of living in that house. I felt sorry for the little girl in the story, because she knew her house was a place that people did not prefer to live in because of the poor condition and also she tells that her whole family shares one bedroom together.  She compares her house with the house that she actually wants to live in. The little girl’s father tells her that the house they were living in was temporary but she already knew that her parents cannot provide the children with a better house.

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The House on Mango Street Reponse

Before I start, let me first say that this is acually the first chapter of a very joyful book— that being said, the story that I read was on a depressing note, made all the more depressing because it is told through the eyes of a small child. When she talks about her “dream house”, she paints the picture of perfection (or at least her definition of perfection); perfect yard, perfect stairs, even perfect pipes– she has built up the image so high that the fall back to reality is devastating to her. The revalation of the place that’s suppose to serve as thier “home” filled her with a sense of gloom, being that the fantasy of her first house was one of the few things that help her deal with her irritating life: her constant moving, her ever expanding family, and the conditions of the small apartments that she was required to live that secretly filled her with shame. However, even with these turn of events, she has maintain a small, restrained sense of optimism.

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the house on mongo street

The story was about this family who moved a lot from place to place and was explaining the conditions they were living in from sharing a washroom with the people next door and having broken pipes that couldn’t be fixed because the house was too old. They moved to mango street and and finally they had stuff they never did, like the garden or a place to park a car that they didnt have has yet.

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