pg. 746 – 748
1) “The house on Mango Street is ours, and we don’t have to pay rent to anybody, or share the yard with the people downstairs, or be careful not to make noise and there isn’t a landlord banging on the ceiling with a broom. But even so, it’s not the house we’d thought we’d get. (747)”
The little child is so happy to have a house of her own because she has never had a house where it seems to be constricted and cannot do what ever she wants. She loves having a house of her own because she feels free of everything. She and her family can do whatever they want and not have to pay anyone any money and have to ask someone to fix something for them but not do it. The house on Mango Street is all hers and her families where they can enjoy and have fun.
2) “There. I had to look where she pointed—the third floor, the paint peeling, wooden bars Papa had to nailed on the windows se we wouldn’t fall out. You live there? The way she said it made me feel like nothing. There. I lived there. (748)
The child felt that her house on Mango Street was not special anymore since someone pointed out that she lived in a house where it was falling apart. It made her feel like “nothing” and she wanted to move to a nice place. Having her own house is not exciting anymore. She wants a house where it’s pretty and also her own house so she can say it is her house. She realizes how other people look at her house are not pleased because they do not know where she is coming from an apartment which did not feel like a place to stay but a place where people nag to them all the time. She realizes all the bad things about the house and she wishes her family would move to a nicer hosue.
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