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[U.S.] "The House on Mango Street" written by Sandra Cisneros and published by Linlin Publishing House in April 2006

Green Mango Flavor

Shen Shengyi

The Latino community in Chicago is poor, crowded, noisy, and monotonous. The smile is so thin and the dream is so far away. Knowing that a little girl Esperanza Mae loved to dress up Sally, her family discipline was very strict and she went to school straight home. Over time, you become a different sari with your straightened skirt. Wipe blue eye shadow on your eyelids. Don't you smile, Sally. ""Xiao Zhang, you may be thinking, you can't let your feet walk one day, and you can walk far away on Mango Street. "There is a beautiful big house, with the window open", will all the sky be in a hurry to go home? There are no nosy neighbors or cluttered shops around, "trees for trees, and enough blue sky."

Esperanza's four skinny trees grow her own children in front of the house, and she "nightly Talk to the trees." "They are the only ones who understand me, and I am the only one who understands them," she thought. "There is no trash that is picked up by others. "It's just a silent igloo, walking in space by myself, and the clean paper is like the poem before it is written."

Later, she finally walked out of the bright purple house on Mango Street. But she could not forget that some time ago, she composed poetry and wrote "The House on Mango Street" - in reality, her name was Sandra Cisneros, and the poem had a novel, beautiful, sensitive and delicate writing style , writes about the growth of a girl, the happiness like dust and the embarrassment of shadows, observing and thinking about Gordon, fantasy and pain

Life on Mango Street, Sad Red House:

< p>Grandpa passed away, the brave father cried "Wake up in the dark, tired father. ""I wish my father was dead, and I do that, and I put my father in his arms, and I want to hold you and hold him. "

The children looked at the white clouds in the sky and talked about what the various clouds looked like. "Under the sleeping sky, I woke up and was intoxicated. When you are sad, the sky will comfort you. Too much sadness, not enough sky. Butterflies are not enough, flowers are not enough, the most beautiful things are not enough. "

The young mother Minerva worked hard all day and midnight, writing poetry on a small piece of paper." She asked me to read her poem and I asked her to read it to me. "Her husband kept away from home and kept coming back one day and she was beaten to bruises by her husband," I don't know her name and I can't help it. "

The husband is locked in the room and watching, the young and beautiful La Fina is leaning against the window for too long, getting older and older." The sound of the bar came from the corner of the street, and La Fina hoped to be able to go Go dancing there before the age. "

Ma Lin, where the street lights dance alone, singing the same song, song." Her car stopped, waiting for a star to fall, such as a person to change her life. "...

These humble people, God is very busy and has no time to take care of them, so that they fall to the earth again and again.

The fun of "good times". Several children I collected money and bought a bicycle and rode it happily on the street. The fat woman said: You are loading.

The party is full of comfort. After the baptism, she had new clothes to wear, but the shoes were still missing. She didn't dare to dance with the old sandals and others. "I want Qiao Shushu's comfort," she said, "You are the most beautiful girl. Pull her to dance...

These scrap stories, I think they have the same breathing space as the Spanish writer I love Suolin, gentle pen and ink, writing obscure people and things Calm line drawings of sadness and pity, perhaps, because they come from a distant cultural source? Therefore, Wang Zengqi's Suolin 2, Southern Star, Sandra Cisneros, also applies: the work "like the shadows of a covered stream", their people, "face the irrevocable sadness of this world and All love and attention."

Writing, Missing her hometown in Mahabalipuram, West Block, Sandra Cisneros refused to speak and listen to English. The name she gave the book's narrator "Esperanza" refers to "hope," which in Spanish means "sorrow," which means waiting, the color of mud. " - It's a meaningful symbol.

As immigrants enter the United States, there is a painful division between the traditional culture of the nation and the real world, resisting the painful pursuit of compromise.

They struggle to escape from that muddy color, even the most fragile pens and poems. Esperanza wrote a poem: "I want / to be on the waves on the sea, the clouds in the wind, / but I am what I am / and I want / to jump out of my body..." Dying Aunt Lupe Say: "Very good, very good." Remember to keep writing, you must write, and this will make you free.

But freedom does not mean freedom. The little girl said: "You will It's always Mango Street, the things you can't forget, you know you can't forget who you are. ""You have to remember that I don't like you so I left. "In the end, the author said in the book that it was the end: "I left, I left and came back, and no one could get out behind my back. "

Those behind, Sandra Cisneros have never been supportive, but we can't give a damn about "The House on Mango Street," just the story of a clash of races and cultures that belongs throughout modern times When I read this book, I couldn't help but think of the outsiders in our urban slums now.

The little girl's book reminded me of the wolf singing: "I love children, in strings." The loneliness in the street grows and I feel like my childhood...

So it is more of a life story.

Leaf, come back. The taste of premature unripe green mango, it tastes sour, but a faint fragrance and taste of growth always float in your life and tell you: you will never leave you always come back.

20, 24, on Christmas Eve.

Walking on Mango Street

Huangmei Opera

About the author: Huang Mei, born in 1950, is a famous British and American literature scholar and translator. "Reading", one of the main contributors to "Everything". M.A. in English from Rutgers University, Ph.D., the first years of the U.S. Department of Energy. He is currently a member of the School of Social Sciences, the School of Foreign Languages, the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and a researcher of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

"The House on Mango Street" (1984) is a short book written by the Mexican writer Sandra Cisneros (Sandra Cisneros, 1954-) Name Girl Named Esperanza Cordero Life on Mango Street. This autobiographical novel incorporates a lot of experiences from my childhood.

About the author

Cisneros was born in the suburbs of Chicago to a Mexican father and a Mexican mother, the son of six brothers. Among the poor Latin American immigrant children, Cisneros suffers from the marginalized existence of a disadvantaged group. During her teenage years, her family moved back and forth between Chicago and Mexico, never having a stable place to live and naturally unstable neighbors and friends. This makes her very introverted, very hungry for friendship, and eager to deal with the world. In solitude, she fell in love with reading and learned to observe. She looked at everything around her and made a record of what she saw and heard.

One of her high school writing teachers encouraged her to read out her essay. Students enthusiastically gave her confidence. After graduating from high school, she entered the University of Chicago, Loyola (Loyola), and studied in the famous American graduate writing training course - the writing course at the University of Iowa in the United States was later recommended.

She is the only Hispanic student in this session’s Iowa writing class. This made her uncomfortable and for a long time she could not start writing anything. Influenced by culture and thought, her understanding of many issues has been greatly improved and deepened. For example, she has the French philosopher Bachelard (1884-1962), the discussion point "Poetics of Space" and the student's "House of Memory" listed as conceptual spaces that provide a comfortable conceptual space. This But her personal experience was very different. She realized that his memory was filled with all kinds of people in the Spanish neighborhood, and "home" was a shabby house. She said: Iowa. The state experience was very important, "it made me aware of my own heritage of difference."

A master's degree in Cisneros, 1978, working with minority and underprivileged students in Chicago schools and colleges. Seeing her dilemma and confusion, she once again reviewed her growth process and decided to write something. The American intellectuals in the 20th century paid great attention to cultural and national issues. This book caused considerable repercussions and controversy.

It was awarded the American Book Award by the Columbian Foundation in 1985 and moved to a large primary school classroom, receiving rights to Norton Selections of American Literature in 1989 and later being released in paperback by the major publisher Random House at the same time. Various opinions have been published, and Yale University literature professor Harold Bloom has also personally written a review. , a children's book with "smooth language", also has something startling and arguably specific about the landscape of contemporary American culture.

Cisneros is another famous for his service and has been a prolific writer in several schools. Her works also include the poetry collections "Bad Boy" (1980), "Slut" (1994) and the short story collection "Screaming Girl Creek and Beyond" (1991).

Girl Whispering

Girl Whispering Esperanza? A Dro exists.

The book composed of "Mango Street" monologues consists of 44 fragments. Each section revolves around a different theme. "Stanza" or "document" [1] leaves traces in the mind about little Esperanza, experienced, or around someone, or hair, clouds, trees, yellow yuan, etc.

Enter Mango Street, facing the world, our first contact, the voice of speech. People often use words like "clear water" to describe it. Although it is not as pure and bright as Chad's reading, but gradually we will distinguish the feelings of composite adults to remember, but most importantly, but also the most impressive, but also the sensitive ones of teenagers Little girl's voice. Little Esperanza spoke to her own family and friends in her own imagination, better than I could, without guarding, without separation or distance.

"It wasn't always living on Mango Street. Before, we lived in Loomis on the third floor, and before that, we lived in Guitar Music..." The statement begins with an almost transparent directness to Cordero their lives. Therefore, we realize that this is a poor family with no fixed residence, family members have expanded, and living conditions have been poor. The greatest desire of the family is to have a decent and convenient housing, such as a "TV". The "new home" on Mango Street was a huge disappointment and not what they wanted, but they have since moved on to another house to live in.

The stone that shines like the sun unexpectedly caught our attention. At this time, we might as well stop for a moment and listen to the intonation, these words, the goods, and the system will prompt their images. For example: "The new home on Mango Street" is a small red house. The narrow windows at the front of the home are so small that you feel like they are holding their breath. In many places the wall bricks are swollen and crowded to open the front door. So tight, you had to push it away with a lot of force, holding your breath against the window and the swollen door. How to come to life. What kind of person would think this way? Does the anthropomorphic brushwork show that not everything is a living soul in the fairy tale world? Of course, the new image metaphor suggests that feelings are not necessarily simple and easy: a small window may well mean suppression with swelling, pain first, and so on.

Another example, "boys and girls", little Esperanza said to herself: "One day, I will also have my own good friend, and she will confide the secret to me, What I didn't explain to my friends was that before I could understand my joke, I would always be the only red balloon tied under the balloon. "Red balloon?" Why red balloons? Are you giving the signal? Floating alone? Want to break through without distance? Still anxiously waiting to know each other? Our minds are presented with premium red balloons, the current trend that is busy with the eyes of wistful little girls. Maybe that's enough, it's the best feeling, except that no more explanation is needed, there is no clear definition: what the balloon symbolizes and what tethering means.

There is my mother's hair and her mother's smell. 6Everyone’s hair family is different. But there's just mom's hair, mom's hair, yo, like little rosettes, little circles of candy... stick your nose in and smell it... smell it The scent of so sweet, warm bread baking, the scent of her blanket and body temperature radiated from the corner.

"The thought of a girl's monologue from the appearance of hair to a smell and then snuggling up to her mother is a step-by-step drift that makes you go to the wonderful feeling of lying in my mother's arms: "You slept with her outside when it rained and the father snored, Snoring, rain, and mom’s bread that smells like head. "Ode to maternal love, the many changes in the sound are so obvious. We not only hear the little girl Ning Xin's breathing, but also faintly smell the adult women recalling the past, which is intoxicating.

There are those songs... ...

Staying briefly in these poetic moments, I once spent a little time gazing at the sparsely populated raindrops that wetted the floor tiles of Beijing's Sihe courtyard. That was many years ago - And the memory of the sky is vaguely Busia-yin. It will definitely feel different to different readers, but young adults, if you read a little slower, So Esperanza's softly whispering vote reflects some images in the mirror of your heart, it will. Invoking some associations, echoes of throbbing rhythms and melodies, it's a beautiful experience - even if it's sometimes painful and sore "Story"

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Behind Mango Street" is relative. separate "sections," but they are essentially related in summarizing the story of "Growing Urban America," about a poor Mexican girl. One In My Name, Esperanza describes: her long, polysyllabic name Students from Spanish schools in the United States are both embarrassing and funny. She is very clear: they are all "brown people."

Racial differences and contradictions are very prominent and very sensitive. The issues of skin color and ethnicity in American society, as the descendants of Latin American immigrants, often mean family poverty, discrimination and cultural alienation and loss. The growth of Esperanza therefore contains a rich sociological content. Bloom said that rereading Mango Street was "either a literary experience" that reminded him of Mexican (Hispanic) life and traditions.[2] His editorial review focused primarily on issues related to race and gender. , cultural differences in wealth, identity and work content.

Arriving on Mango Street, little Esperanza meets the cat queen Cathy, who is the head of the cat gathering. There was a cat that was walking freely on the table, and the poor family obviously couldn't really pay attention to the fact that little Kathy was a very friendly, new girl next door, and she took the initiative to introduce her to the local neighborhood committee and shops. However, she would still have her own relatives. In France, "families" will be broken up as some say so with the arrival of the Drois (non-white) community downgraded so she will move north and new arrivals will also be warned not to play "slovenly as mice" Sister Lucy . The child's incomprehensible, if completely and cruel reflection of the contradictions, shortcomings and prejudices of adult society

We recognize that the Latin American immigrants, many of whom passed through Mango Street, are little Esperanza. Eyes. Kathy left to move into her house, one of the Puerto Ricans who lived in the basement of his home - a teenager who stole a yellow Cadillac limousine and drove all the neighborhood kids to an Internet addiction. In a narrow street and then arrested by the police, Puerto Rico married her boyfriend in the United States and wanted to get Marlene, a single mother who abandoned her husband for a different kind of fortune: her children could not make a living. After a large nest, the little guy has no discipline and talks blindly, which will eventually lead to a terrible disaster. Mother Sita, a fat woman who has recently arrived in Hong Kong and settled in the United States, refuses to go downstairs and refuses to speak English... ....

Lunch can tell us a lot. Little Esperanza looks at the lunch in the school cafeteria for "special children"! "[3] Little Esperanza does everything possible to convince her mother that she has a meal. The mother's request letter to the mother was, however, not convincing. She went to find her mother, tortured her, and stayed at school to eat for almost the entire day. In the end, she was brought to tears in the cafeteria, which was nothing special. She ate cold drinks and greasy rice sandwiches (her family’s luncheon meat). She was so disappointed and so full of humiliation. I'm afraid we have to use a little imagination to fully appreciate the enormous temptation our children face in the school cafeteria. Dining rights transform the ordinary into beautiful and glorious experiences, what a poignant and humble situation it is. In addition, from the words and deeds of the mother of The Thing in the Palm, we can feel the atmosphere of a Catholic school for poor Hispanic children.

Of course, all poor children have their own happiness. Esperanza despite Cassie's warnings, sisters and friends Lucy.

Their partner Chip bought an old bike with three squeezes and maneuvered it through the entire neighborhood. It's a "good day." The Old Furniture Store's old Jill was small, dark and dirty, with only a few shabby items, but still endless charm for children - for example, a music box that made wonderful sounds. Looking up at the nature of clouds provides the opportunity to explore both the "science" and the "beauty". The civilian children sang songs skipping the street and played happy games.

My cousin’s baptism party experience was filled with mixed emotions. Mother Esperanza buys a bright new dress instead of new shoes. She was so disheartened that she didn't dare to dance with boys. However, there is a strong feeling of Mexican immigrant family and compatriots. The old man takes care of the children, and each one is considered a "cousin" by aloofness. Later Esperanza Qiao Shu Villa encourages and invites you to enter the dance floor and dance wildly with great joy and unparalleled scenery.

The turbulent period of adolescence, when a butterfly pupates, arrives unknowingly. The little girl started paying attention to his hips and waist. They were dancing, skipping, half innocent, half early resolution singing. They put on colorful old high heels to pass the gift of the streets. They started to be interested in having boys. Ace Langsuo started doing odd jobs. A photo of her packing in the recording studio, where the seemingly polite and humble Asian suddenly kissed her. We can almost hear her heartbeat, feel her embarrassment and fear, and can't help but make some vague guesses about the Asian's mentality and motivations while remaining in the narrative.

The real kiss happened after this. Arranged at a carnival fairground to meet her girlfriend, Sally shows up as a group of boys pester her and forcibly kiss Esperanza. It's torn up, girls love fantasies.

Sally, you lied. You didn't say that. ...all the stories and movies, why did you lie to me? ...

Sally is a hundred times better. Why am I calling you? Can you not listen? Why don't you ask them and leave me alone? Someone grabbed my arm and he let me go. He said, I love you, I love you, Spanish girl, and then pressed his sour lips to my lips.

...I couldn't do anything but cry. I don't remember. dark. I don't remember. Please don't ask me to tell you all.

Sally was hanging out with her boyfriend and forgot about her girlfriend? Or worse, betrayed her? In each paragraph of this section, Sally tells an object, but it is clearly Esperanza's language of a person independently. It sounds like panicked urgent appeals and accusations, blowing away the fears, anxieties and disappointments of disillusioned female friendships and boys. The phrase "Don't let me say:" gives us more hints: Maybe there is a bigger infringement incident? Hispanic girl calls out race issues behind reveal this encounter. There was no obvious white mango street that could have come from a boy with a relatively unfamiliar name.

But no matter how much stress, frustration and hurt, Esperanza would have loved the four thin little trees near her home that broke through the masonry obstructions to grow tenaciously. Her daily conversations with them: "Their strength is a mystery. Ferocious root systems spread underground. They grow upward and downward, keeping a close eye on the soil. Their hairy toes and their ferocious teeth gnaw and bite the sky, The tree is so like an unstoppable one. Esperanza's painful moments are spent thinking about the beast. She wants to grow up and leave Mango Street one day.

Left means more meaningful rewards. - Accompanied by the wind in August, the arrival of three sisters warns "When you leave remember, others. ...You know, the things you can't forget, you can't forget who you are," If the desire to leave Mango Street is almost equal to the responsibilities and expectations of the pursuit of success and wealth, then return to Mango Street and beyond In the usual sense, the "American Dream" is in essence

Many commentators emphasize that this book is another important concern about gender issues. Some people say that the male images in "Mango Street" are poor. But this is not the case. The tired father woke up in the middle of the night, the overseas Chinese Shu, there are many people struggling to make a living, supporting family people, their descriptions are obviously full of sympathy, of course, the same pen is unambiguous. To write: Sally, Minerva, the bad record of women beaten by their fathers or husbands, to write about the thoughts and behavior of outdated or absurdly gendered Mexicans - as who were also part of life on Mango Street.

Telling

Steadyly cordially, we hear little Esperanza's very special emotional nobility in the differences between boys and girls, her housewife (including her mother, and Egret children) sorry for the waste of talent, And gave birth to a life of design that saw her study and eventually marry Marlene and Sally. wait. These are issues that girls are increasingly concerned about, but that adult women are still thinking about. Fortunately, art is intuitive, so she doesn't have too many themes first, without concrete and real life experiences. Therefore, what is presented to the reader is not gender preaching, but a colorful picture of the life of a Mexican girl in the United States.

The house is little Esperanza’s dream, and it symbolizes that the core of this book is about dreams

Their parents always told us that one day we would enter a house. House, a real big house...our house had running water and good plumbing with real stairs, a narrow staircase in the hall, but like the stairs in the house on TV, we had a basement, at least There are three bathrooms, bathtubs, and when you don't tell everyone, our house is white. Surrounded by trees, there was a big yard with long grass and no fences. Before we went to bed, it was my father who was talking about the house, clutching the lottery ticket, but also my mother, who told us the house where this story took place.

Little Esperanza grows up and adds new contents to her dream house. She talked about the house on the hillside and how fascinating it was. "She envied those who lived in the mountains, sleeping so close to the stars, but also knew clearly that those superior people "forget those of us who live on the earth." "So, she thought: One day, have a house on her own hill, with a homeless shelter in the attic.

Her housing dream began as "other" but in more Towards the end of a metaphysical pursuit, she once again described his desire. Her house

It is not a small apartment, but also a large apartment with a dark side. Is it a person’s house? Is it my father’s? Because it's entirely my own. There are my pillows on my front porch, my beautiful purple petunias. My book and my story...

Just a silent igloo, a space walk, a clean sheet of paper yet to be written as poetry.

The title of this section echoes Virginia Woolf's famous "A House of One's Own." We hear the word, phrasing it in Esperanza's voice. Of course, the concept expressed here may not have a final conclusion, but the feelings of a specific period of time. Little Esperanza won't forget that they had planned to keep the attic, and maybe in the future her "own" space and the spaces of others (both men and Dad) will be connected in some way again.

Dreams and wishes do not come out of thin air.

We can’t help but think of a little girl related to the classic. Is it the dream of the black American female writer Tony? Morrison's "The Bluest Blue Eye" (1970). Why do little black girls long for blue eyes? When black teen singer Michael? After the Jacksons became famous and made a fortune, they bought and built an ultra-luxurious manor for their daughters. Even after buying the replacement cost to go to war, their skin ached a little scary white, transforming these amazing mansions from his childhood dreams. , the dream of fair skin. Dro, who wants to be admitted to a TV show like this, of course, because of their desire to get rid of poverty and have a better life, but it is undeniable that TV and other media represent a strong cultural and mainstream lifestyle "brainwashing" result. Otherwise, why don't they aspire to the lifestyle of people in other countries?

We remember Sita, the ever-advocate “non-English speaking” mother, who was heartbroken when she couldn’t stop her little son from speaking his first words in English. , the first song kids will sing is a Pepsi jingle. How children grow up listening to English jingles dreaming about life in the future, whose dreams truly represent "OK", and likewise, the importance of little Esperanza's new shoes ready to go to the party. Why is she so eager for valuable new clothes and new shoes? Why is a pair of old shoes so shameful that she dare not even stretch out her feet? From the perspective of "why" thinking, it is not difficult to understand the subsequent potential "do".

The overbearing standards of commercialized consumer goods that define what “beauty” and “respectability” are! The psychological process is one intertwined with the hazy sexual awakening of one's own object to the object of male sexual desire that "naturally" occurs in the innocent girl who is it?

In this sense, we are lucky that little Esperanza's revision of the ever-growing richness of her own dreams also represents the mystical figure of the witch of Mexico's indigenous culture, pointing to her dreams as a powerful forward and creation. However, a dream is also a need for identified needs analysis, criticism and correction

Let us end the preface of the above mentioned "dream".

This is a useful opening book for many young and no longer young early readers and readers, both as a literary experience and as a way to evoke emotional exchanges and cries, whether at the time Writing with reference to your own test pen can also trigger observation and thinking about life and society.

Wander slowly along Mango Street.