House on Mango Street 2
Esperanza Cordero is a very troubled patient of mine. Her family lives at poverty level, because the father is a gardener and her mother is a housewife, and has moved around many times in these early years of Esperanza's life. Esperanza is very ashamed of things, depressed, but yet she is a very intelligent and caring young girl. She has gone through many terrifying and disturbing experiences in her life. She has been raped, her aunt died, her father getting devastated over her grandfather's death, and she has not yet formed any friendships with other kids. Her house is in the slums of the town.The Cordero family consists of Rita (mom), Paco (father), Esperanza, Carlos, Kiki, and Nenny. The combined household income is at the poverty level with no hopes of that changing in the near future. They have moved from Paulina, to Keeler, to Loomis, and to Mango Street in the first six years of Esperanza's life (3). The homes she has lived in were all run down apartments with very little amenities. Now her family lives in a run down house on Mango Street, but most likely the best place they have ever lived. Esperanza had to get a job in order to go to a private Catholic high school. Catholics do not attend public high schools.
She is intelligent. She is very poetic and can make all kinds of things turn into poetry that sooths people's soul. Which I think would make her feel positive about herself. Esperanza is also able to look at things from other people's shoes, different kinds of views, which is a very valuable thing in knowing how people feel. What would you feel like if something happened to you or you did something to them? Also Esperanza knew how to act and what to do when her grandfather died, while her dad was acting crazy. This showed Esperanza many positive things about herself, which should have helped her in her life. I feel it will take a lot for Esperanza to overcome all the horrifying experiences that have happened over the past 13 years of her life. On the other hand, I really feel that she will not be able to overcome the things that have happened because so many things have gone wrong. She is too depressed and ashamed of so many things all of the time. Although I think she will become smarter after all of this because she will learn all of the different parts of life, and what kind of demented and nice people are out in the world, that can help or harm her or other people around her. Also Esperanza's father said, "Nobody went to public school unless you wanted to turn out bad." (53). Esperanza's job was at a photo shop that her Aunt had once worked at. At the photo shop she matched the negatives with the photos. S
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Approximate Word count = 967
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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