The House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros

Mango Says Goodbye Sometimes

Told in a series of vignettes stunning for their eloquence, The House on Mango Street is Sandra Cisneros's greatly admired novel of a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Acclaimed by critics, beloved by children, their parents and grandparents, taught everywhere from inner-city grade schools to universities across the country, and translated all over the world, it has entered the canon of coming-of-age classics.
　　
　　Sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous, The House on Mango Street tells the story of Esperanza Cordero, whose neighborhood is one of harsh realities and harsh beauty. Esperanza doesn't want to belong--not to her rundown neighborhood, and not to the low expectations the world has for her. Esperanza's story is that of a young girl coming into her power, and inventing for herself what she will become.


I like to tell stories . I tell them inside my head . I tell them after the mailman says . Here's your mail . Here's your mail he said .
I make a story for my life , for each step my brown shoe takes . I say ," And so she trudged up the wooden stairs , her sad brown shoes taking her to the house she never liked ."
I like to tell stories . I am going to tell you a story about a girl who didn't want to belong .
We didn't always live on Mango Street . Before that we lived on Loomis on the third floor , and before that we lived on Keeler . before Keeler it was Paulina , but what I remember most is Mango Street , sad red house , the house I belong but do not belong to .
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They will not know I have gone away to come back . For the ones I lift behind . For the ones who cannot out .

清新、优美，在这里你可以听到潺潺的溪水流过，慢慢地，淡淡地；
生动、质朴，真的希望生活就能是那样；
不论快乐，不论忧愁，都是微小的，他、你、还有我，也都是微小的。

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