Throughout the world there are many children who grow up in extreme poverty and under disgraceful economical conditions. Consequently, a sense of inferiority will eventually penetrate into the child's self-concept damaging their self-esteem. Once that the self-concept is subjected to a sense of inferiority the mind of the child will most likely live up to the low standards that society has set for him/her. Esperanza, the main figure of Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street, is an exception to the children who grow up under outrageous economical conditions and consequently live up the low expectations of society. Although, all her life she had lived under extreme poverty, the flame of progression, the yearn for being someone valuable in society, still burst in her heart. Poverty seems to be taking its toll on Esperanza's life. But despite these disadvantages her hope for making progress in life remains firm because she believes that she is to strong to be kept in Mango Street forever (110).

Esperanza is an exception to the average children who fail to succeed due to their economical disadvantages because she did not lost faith in that soon she was going to escape out of the poor co

Esperanza is different from other children who meet society's low expectations not only because be goes beyond the expectations that society had for her, but also because she looks forward to come back and assist those who will be facing the same situation that she is facing now. Esperanza is aware of the hardships of live which she is going through, and she knows that like her there will be many other children stock in the valley of poverty. That is why she wants to come back to Mango Street, to help others. She projects her mind to the future, to the day when she will shake the sky like a hundred violins (60). The sky shakes as a result of a supernatural phenomenon. Similarly, a violin's cords vibrate as the result of the musician's impact on the cords. She uses this simile to typify the defeating of poverty, and her impact on other people who cannot come out of poverty (110).

Esperanza not only had to deal with the low expectations of society, and her own weaknesses of low self-esteem, but also with the prejudices that her mother inculcated on her. On top of her economical disadvantages, Esperanza's hope was weakened by the low expectations that her mother had for her. Her mother told her that she was born on an evil day and that most likely she will go to hell. But despite all the psychological pressure in conjunction with the predestination that society and her mother had for her, the light of hope still shined on her heart. Instead of getting conformed to the low standards of her neighbor

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