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The House on Mango Street & Woman Hollering Creek & Other Stories

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Book Summary

Sandra Cisneros Biography

Early Years and Education
Career and Writing
Recognition and Awards

About Cisneros' Work

Introduction
The House on Mango Street
"Woman Hollering Creek" and Other Stories
Cisneros' Writing Style

Summary and Analysis of The House on Mango Street

Part 1: The House on Mango Street; Hairs; Boys & Girls; My Name
Part 2: Cathy Queen of Cats; Our Good Day; Laughter; Gil's Furniture Bought & Sold; Meme Ortiz; Louie, His Cousin & His Other Cousin
Part 3: Marin; Those Who Don't; There Was an Old Woman She Had So Many Children She Didn't Know What to Do; Alicia Who Sees Mice
Part 4: Darius and the Clouds; And Some More; The Family of Little Feet; A Rice Sandwich; Chanclas
Part 5: Hips; The First Job; Papa Who Wakes Up Tired in the Dark; Born Bad; Elenita, Cards, Palm, Water
Part 6: Geraldo No Last Name; Edna's Ruthie; The Earl of Tennessee; Sire; Four Skinny Trees
Part 7: No Speak English; Rafaela Who Drinks Coconut & Papaya Juice on Tuesdays; Sally; Minerva Writes Poems; Bums in the Attic
Part 8: Beautiful & Cruel; A Smart Cookie; What Sally Said; The Monkey Garden; Red Clowns
Part 9: Linoleum Roses; The Three Sisters; Alicia & I Talking on Edna's Steps; A House of My Own; Mango Street Says Goodbye Sometimes

Summary and Analysis of "Woman Hollering Creek" and Other Stories

My Friend Lucy Who Smells Like Corn
One Holy Night
There Was A Man, There Was A Woman — Part One
There Was A Man, There Was A Woman, Part Two
There Was A Man, There Was A Woman, Part Three
There Was A Man, There Was A Woman, Part Four

Character List

Character Map: The House on Mango Street

Character Analysis

Esperanza Cordero (The House on Mango Street)
Marin (The House on Mango Street)
Sally (The House on Mango Street)
Alicia (The House on Mango Street)
"Ixchel" ("One Holy Night")
Cleófilas ("Woman Hollering Creek")
Rosario (Chayo) De Leon ("Little Miracles, Kept Promises")

Critical Essays

Themes in Cisneros' Fiction
Form and Language as Characterization in Cisneros' Fiction

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About Cisneros' Work

Introduction

The House on Mango Street and "Woman Hollering Creek" and Other Stories have enjoyed wide critical and popular favor, and deservedly so. Engagingly readable, their appeal is immediate, yet they open up areas of experience new to many U.S. readers. Sandra Cisneros' fictional "voice" and her feminism are often praised, yet there are many voices in her fiction — not all of them female — and each is wholly individual, defining a character we recognize as a unique human being, often in only a few sentences. Academic critics point out mythic connections in Cisneros' stories, yet in each of them — whether the setting is Chicago in the 1960s, 1980s San Antonio, or early-twentieth-century Mexico — the real world is foremost, crowding into our senses by way of language that is concrete and precise.


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