Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Images in The House on Mango Street


Thursday, you will have to analyze an image--like Prof. Dyer showed us--in Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street. This in-class writing assignment will be worth 20 points and will help your critical reading skills. What images are you considering using? The bike (work together for increased mobility)? Black storeowner? Mean nun? Lonely women in the windows (people who can't or won't cross thresholds)? Trees growing from concrete? Red clowns? High heels? Linoleum roses? Streetlight (American Dream)?

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I thought the bike could represent life. Too many people at once in or on it. The girls keep riding faster and faster and I thought that could be them growing up. They ride past the stores and I thought it could be they are riding past the bad memories.

Anonymous said...

What about her mother's hair? It could represent comfort and simplicity, with the way she describes it. Even though not a motif (it only comes up once), it still seems and important symbol.

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