Should the United States Have Annexed the Philippines?

                                                      The House on Mango Street

Esperanza starts out being ashamed and an immature little. But later on, she is starting to understand more about her and everyone else in her neighborhood and she starts experiencing new things like assaults and about man and women life. Esperanza is mature now because she understands everything that adults understand. Why is Esperanza ashamed and immature but then she’s mature? In the beginning of the book “The House on Mango Street” by: Sandra Cisneros. Esperanza was immature and ashamed of everything, but then she is mature because she understands more situation of adulthood. Esperanza experiences a lot of things in her life.

Esperanza is ashamed at the beginning of the book. For example, she felt ashamed because she doesn’t like her new house on Mango Street, “you live there? The way she said it made me feel like nothing” (Cisneros 5). This shows that she was ashamed to show the house to her friends because she doesn’t want to be laugh at when they see it. Later on, Esperanza is ashamed because she wished for something very selfish and it is to leave Mango Street. “It was as if she could read my mind, as if she knew what I had wished for, and I felt ashamed for having made such a selfish wish” (page 105). This shows that Esperanza is ashamed because she told the fortune teller that she wants to leave Mango Street. Another example of Esperanza being ashamed is when she dreams of having a better house. The quote that tells this is, “but me I never had noise, not even a photo-graph… only one I dream of” (page 107). This shows that Esperanza is ashamed of not wanting to be in Mango Street because she wants a house of her own.

Esperanza is immature in the beginning in the beginning of the book. For example, she felt immature because she paided Lucy and Rachel to be her friends. “Someday I will have a best friend all my own” (page 9). This shows that she does have friends because she wants a friend but nobody talks to her except only her sister nenny and she talks about other people having friends to. Later on, Esperanza is immature because she is too young to understand what her uncle Nacho said. “To many tamales, but uncle Nacho says to many this and tilts his thumb to his lips” (page 47). This shows that Esperanza is immature because she didn’t understand her uncle Nacho gesture for drinking. Esperanza wouldn’t be acting that way if she weren’t being so immature because in the vignette she and her friends still jump rope for fun. “We slow the double circles down to a certain speed so Rachel who has just jumped in and can practice shaking it” (page 50). This shows that she is immature because older people don’t usually jump rope.