Aspect's of writing 'The House on Mango street"

Aspect: They often employ techniques of narrative

The writer of "The House on Mango Street" uses lots of details. Lots. He talks about how the house he will one day have will "have running water and pipes that worked. And inside it will have real stairs, not hallway stairs, but stairs inside like the houses on T.V." and also how the house "would be white with trees around it, and a great big yard and grass growing without a fence." I could really see his imagination of the house that he wanted. And then he described in detail what the actual house looked like. I could just picture it clearly, with its "tight steps in front and windows so small you'd think they were holding their breath." Yes in the beginning he is describing everything bad about the house, but he isn't completely negative, just descriptive, yet in the end he says that his mom says it's only temporary. It moves to a bigger idea of, not everything is permanent, and to hold up your head, things will get better. Don't be negative.

Aspect: They deliver interesting information

In the story, the author says, " They always told us that one day we would move into a house..." and then goes into detail about the house and then ends it with, "But the house on Mango Street is not the way they told us at all." That really makes me interested in what it looked like. In the beginning with him describing all the crappy places they've been, I really wanted them to get that house he was describing. I almost started believing that they would have that dream house, but they didn't and it made me sad for them. It made me want to learn new info about the house they actually got. He tunes you into the story.



Aspect: They exhibit perceptivity

Like I said in the first aspect, the writer isn't ever negative about the descriptions of the house. When he is talking about the actual house he got he only says, "There are stairs in our house, but they're ordinary hallway stairs, and the house has only one washroom. Everybody has to share a bedroom-" Never in the text he said that it was horrible or that he hated it, just simply described it and I feel that that is him showing people to not look so negatively on things, they'll get better. As his momma said" It's only temporary"