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Essay Archive - The House on Mango Street
The House on Mango Street
Mango Street is a deceptive work. It is a book of short stories—and
sometimes not even full stories, but character sketches and vignettes—that
add up, as Sandra Cisneros has written, "to tell one big story, each story
contributing to the whole—like beads in a necklace." That story is told in
language that seems simple but that possesses the associative richness of
poetry, and whose slang and breaks from grammatical correctness contribute
to its immediacy. It is narrated in the voice of a young girl—a girl too
young to know that no one may ever hear her—but whose voice is completely
convincing, because it is the c....
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