Dear NI2 students,
This is a video of Sandra Cisneros talking about our next book to comment in class. You may get a pick of the book as well as understand what the author meant when writing it.
You may also want to take notes on the following questions about the video. Why not write down the answers on the comment?
Questions
1. What does the protagonist on The House on Mango Street is searching for?
2.
What is her name?
3.
Does the protagonist
identify with the main character in the novel?
4.
Where is the House on
Mango Street located? Where did she get her inspiration from?
5.
What attracts people
to the House on Mango Street?
6.
What are the
heroine’s models? How old do you think she is?
2 comments:
1. Another way to be.
2. Esperanza.
3. Yes it's like her own life.
4. Chicago, Mango Avenue, she take experiences of other neighbours.
5. Young people who are lonely, issolationness, ando could be identificated whit the heroine. People who don't pass from the childhood to the adult life.
6. She could be in their mid-forties, for example. She looks for models aroud her and she search for the people she want to be.
Great, Roberto!
Here are some comments to your answers:
1. Another way to be. (can anybody explain this a bit more?)
2. Esperanza. (correct)
3. Yes it's like her own life. (can anybody say something else?)
4. Chicago, Mango Avenue, she takes experiences FROM other neighbours AND COMMUNITIES SHE LIVED IN. AS AN ARTIST SHE NEEDS SOME DISTANCE FROM THE REAL EXPERIENCE SO THAT IMAGINATION CAN PLAY ITS PART IN THE WRITING PROCESS.
5. YOUNG PEOPLE WHO ARE ISOLATED, LONELY, AND ARE LONGING FOR SOMETHING. YOUNG PEOPLE MIGHT BE IDENTIFIED WITH THE PEOPLE WHO ARE LIVING THE CHANGE FROM BEING A CHILD TO BEING AN ADULT.
6. She looks for models arouNd her and she search for the people she wantS to be. (Any additional info?)How old do you think Esperanza is?
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