THE HOUSE ON MANGO STREET The House on Mango Street is to extend “text” to community. Esperanza, the narrator, can “read” the neighborhood. Esperanza and some other women in the book took control of their experience, while others were manipulated by traditional neighborhood values. This paper is an exploration of extending the notion of text to community, specifically the Mango Street neighborhood that Esperanza “reads” and interprets. This paper will show how Esperanza’s reading …showed first 75 words of 125 total…

…showed last 75 words of 125 total…extending the notion of text to community, specifically the Mango Street neighborhood that Esperanza “reads” and interprets. This paper will show how Esperanza’s reading of the neighborhood shaped her own inner strength and dream. I will show how she reads as an active participant with empathy for other without emulating their behavior, and how she researches and negotiates her own meaning in community all without condemning herself to the position of others. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**