Effects Of The House On Mango Street By Sandra Cisneros
In the vignette Chanclas , the author, Sandra Cisneros, depicts Esperanza s
experience at a baptism party, as Esperanza expresses different feelings that change
in course of the vignette. Her feelings are designated by six keywords, plungers,
drag, skinny, watches, movies, forgets , each one of those words contributes to the
effect of the passage and their effect changes from one to the other. At the
beginning of the vignette, Esperanza feels self conscious and holds herself down
due to her shame and appearance (as an outcast). When Esperanza is finally willing
to dance, her feet oppose her and she loses control over them like she describes, my
feet swell big and heavy like plungers . Plungers, rubber suction cups attached to the
end of a stick that are used to unclog... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...
In this sentence, plungers are used as a simile in negative connotation because
nobody would want to compare part of their body to toilets and be stuck to the
floor. This was also foreshadowed in the vignette My Hair , And me, my hair is
lazy. It never obeys barrettes or bands. because just like Esperanza s hair, her feet
(legs) don t obey. Furthermore, Esperanza s reaction to the tug o war between her
body and her mind is it to drag them across the linoleum floor , in other words, pull
her feet along with difficulty and effort. Similarly, to her feet, Esperanza s skinny
arms are negatively, self willed as well. They are skinny, which displays Esperanza
as fragile, thin, small, boney, and weak little girl. In addition, when Esperanza starts
dancing, she s more experiencing or watching than