This review will be about “The House on Mango Street” by Sandra Cisneros. I honestly think if you like to read any type of book you should read this one because this book is basically about a young girl going through life in a place that is notorious for violence and bad things in general and her going through puberty and trying to find herself in the big city. It is a great piece of American literature.

The house on Mango Street covers a year in the life of Esperanza, a Chicana who is about 12 years old when the story begins. During that year she moves with her family to a house on mango street. Esperanza the story narrater a 12-year-old Chicana. Rachel and Lucy Esperanza's best friends and Mexican American sister who lives across the street from Esperanza. Nenny (Magdalena) esperanza little sister who is pretty dreamy and esperanza usually looks after her. The story takes place in a low-income Latino neighborhood of Chicago.

   The main things that I liked from the book are that I could relate in terms of living in that type of ghetto neighborhood. And that the story is simple but you still want to read it all the way through and see what happens. The thing that I didn't like about the story was that only kids in that type of living situation would understand suppose to a person who lives in a suburban area with nice people. “Its small and red with tight steps in front and windows so small you'd think they were holding their breath. Bricks are crumbling in places and the front door was so swollen you have to push hard to get in. There is no front yard, only four little elms the city planted by the curb. Outback is a small garage for the car we don't own yet and a small yard that looks smaller between the two buildings on either side. There are stars in our outhouse, but their ordinary stairs, and the house has only one washroom. Everybody has to share a bedroom-Mama and Papa, Carlos and Kiki, and me and Neny.” This shoes how nobody who lives in a nice suburban area could ever understand how that feels. My opinion of the story is that it is well constructed but a little half sided. Overall this is a book that you should read.