The House on Mango Street

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Category:	Books
Genre:	Literature & Fiction
Author:	Sandra Cisneros

I would say this book is a long poem rather than a fiction. Every line is so poetic . . . Most of the lines, I read again and again and dare not even go further. It's on my list of collection.

Her characters remind me of my childhood and my childhood friends and neighbours in my home town.

Home . . . The book urge me to ask myself, "What kind of home I dream to own in the future?"
I surely don't want a big house; just a small two storied wooden house. A cute place to look at sky and stars, a silent room for meditation and a reading room with big bookshelf will be must-included. Green lawn and an enough place for different kinds of flowers that I'm gonna water in the evening . . . Ok, I should stop here as my dream house is going to be bigger and bigger.

Here are some poetic and powerful lines from the book . . .

"People who live on hills sleep so close to the stars they forget those of us who live too much on earth. They don't look down at all except to be content to live on hills. They have nothing to do with last week's garbage or fear of rats. Night comes. Nothing wakes them but the wind."

"I want to be
Like the waves on the sea
Like the clouds in the wind
But I'm me
One day I'll jump
Out of my skin
I'll shake the sky
Like a hundred violins"

"The world we live in is a house on fire and the people we love are burning"

"The father wants the girl to be a weather girl on television, or to marry and have babies. She doesn't want to be a TV weather girl. Nor does she want to marry and have babies. Not yet. Maybe later, but there are so many other things she must do in her lifetime first. Travel. Learn how to dance the tango. Publish a book. Live in other cities. Win a National Endowment for the Arts award. See the Northern Lights. Jump out of a cake."

"Only a house, quiet as snow, a space for myself to go, clean as paper before the poem."