Obstacles Of An American Dream
What are the struggles of achieving the American Dream? In The House On Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros a girl named Esperanza wants to live the American Dream. The House On Mango Street is about a young girl who is a part of a poor family who lives in Chicago. The obstacles of her family achieving the American dream are lack of trust, language barriers, and lack of poverty. One of the obstacles people have to achieving the American Dream is lack of trust. Esperanza said that the pipes in their old house broke and the landlord wouldn’t fix them because “the house was too old.”(Document A, Paragraph 3) This helps support my detail because the landlord gave them this house to live in and is supposed to fix any problems with the household, but didn’t. Also in the parallel document she said “But the house on Mango Street is not the way they told it at all.”(Paragraph 5) This also helps aid it for the reason that they were told that the house would be healthier than it had turned out to be. Additionally, in the identical document Esperanza’s parents had said “For the time …show more content…
“Each time it seemed there’d be one more of us”(Document A, Paragraph 1) What she intended by this is that every time they relocated it felt like there was another person to the family and the more the people the less the money they have. “You live there?”(Document A, Paragraph 7) some girl, Esperanza knew asked her that and she just said there because a home like that wasn’t considered a home to her. “We lived on Loomis on the third floor, and before that we lived on Keeler. Before Keeler it was Paulina” (Document A, Paragraph 1) This is saying they changed location often and are continuously moving causes currency to get tangled and in a mess. Without change you can’t live the American Dream, and they didn’t have considerable amount of
What are the struggles of achieving the American Dream? In The House On Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros a girl named Esperanza wants to live the American Dream. The House On Mango Street is about a young girl who is a part of a poor family who lives in Chicago. The obstacles of her family achieving the American dream are lack of trust, language barriers, and lack of poverty. One of the obstacles people have to achieving the American Dream is lack of trust. Esperanza said that the pipes in their old house broke and the landlord wouldn’t fix them because “the house was too old.”(Document A, Paragraph 3) This helps support my detail because the landlord gave them this house to live in and is supposed to fix any problems with the household, but didn’t. Also in the parallel document she said “But the house on Mango Street is not the way they told it at all.”(Paragraph 5) This also helps aid it for the reason that they were told that the house would be healthier than it had turned out to be. Additionally, in the identical document Esperanza’s parents had said “For the time …show more content…
“Each time it seemed there’d be one more of us”(Document A, Paragraph 1) What she intended by this is that every time they relocated it felt like there was another person to the family and the more the people the less the money they have. “You live there?”(Document A, Paragraph 7) some girl, Esperanza knew asked her that and she just said there because a home like that wasn’t considered a home to her. “We lived on Loomis on the third floor, and before that we lived on Keeler. Before Keeler it was Paulina” (Document A, Paragraph 1) This is saying they changed location often and are continuously moving causes currency to get tangled and in a mess. Without change you can’t live the American Dream, and they didn’t have considerable amount of