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NARRATIVE TEXT ANALYSIS PLAN I. Location 1.1 Location in the literary context. (Literary current and characteristics reflected in the work). 1.2 References of the author (ideology, biases, thematic frequency, influences). 1.3 Textual references (of other works of the same genre) and intertextual references (with other works of art: musical pieces, cinema films, music, theater, opera, etc.)

This literary book was written by Sandra Cisneros, who was born in Chicago in 1954. She is the author of two novels, a collection of short stories and other poetry books. When she was young, her family achieved a goal that had been proposed a long time ago, buying a house, which she considered ugly and disrupted. Cisneros has turned the lives of so many who have no opportunity to express themselves. For something his work has been well received in Italy, where there is an emigration phenomenon similar to that of Mexico. That is a common topic in the majority of her books.

II. Content

The hard life of a girl living in the United States 2.1.

Topic (subtopic) 

The poverty as a way of sadness

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Sexist submission of women for macho ideas

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Latino American culture.

2.2. Ideas 2.3. Feelings 2.4. Argument, plot 2.5. Characters (identity, conduct and relationships)

The story is about a girl who moves to a poor neighborhood in the United States. Her parents buy a house in Mango Street, where she narrates her life and relations with her neighbors. Esperanza feels shame for the poverty of her family and describes several times in which she lies or tries to hide the fact that she is poor. She goes to work as a photo developer to pay for her school. On the other hand, she always perseveres the dream of moving to another bigger house and completely changing her life despite what her neighbors told her. The three sisters convince Esperanza that when she leaves, she returns to make Mango Street a better place. 

Esperanza: Protagonist of the story who doesn’t like to live in that poor neighborhood. She tells the story of all her neighbors and how they influence in her life.

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Dad: He works in the rich house gardens in the city.

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Mom: She cooks and cares for the children. She also encourages her daughter to continue in school and to study hard.

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Alicia: Her mother died when she was still a little girl, for that reason she performs all household chores. Esperanza thinks that she is very brave, despite the fear she has for the mice that infest her family's apartment.

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Cathy: She becomes Esperanza's friend when the Cordero family moves to Mango Street, but tells her that their friendship will last a short time

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Nenny: younger Esperanza’s sister.

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Aunt Guadalupe: suffers from a mysterious illness left her blind and prostrate in bed.

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Rachel: Esperanza’s friend.

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Lucy: Rachel’s older sister

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Sally: Pretty girl a little older than her friend Esperanza. She is the girl that all the boys talk about.

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The nuns: they do not show charity or discretion

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Sire: Sire is the first boy to look at Esperanza as the boys look at Marín.

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Minerva: Minerva is a girl not much older than Esperanza, but she is already married and has two children. They spend time together and read the poems they write.

Structure (separate by sections)

3.1. Composition of the text 3.1.1. External: title, dedication or previous appointment, epigraph, etc. Extent of the fragment or text (paragraph and lines) and bibliographical references of the fragment or text. 3.1.2. Internal: sections (extension, topics, ideas and feelings they express)

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This is divided into 44 chapters. The title refers to the house where Esperanza lived with her family. It can be divided according to the theme of the story.  The first section covers from the arrival of Esperanza to the house in Mango Street until before making her first friend, Cathy. Here the narrator describes her family and her feelings for being in that place(Chapter 1 – Chapter 5)  The second section goes from Esperanza makes her first friend, Cathy, which was only going to be until Tuesday. Here is evidence as Esperanza tries not to feel sad making friends (Chapter 6 – Chapter 20)  The third section goes from Esperanza begins to work until the end of the story, where she promises someday to leave that poor neighborhood. In this section, the development of the protagonist's mind and her future dreams are shown (Chapter 20- Chapter 40)

Expression

4.1. Storyteller

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The narrator is Esperanza

4.1.1. Diegetic Narrator

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Intradiegetic narrator: She acts, judges and has opinions about the facts and the characters that appear.

4.1.2. Types of discourse: direct, indirect

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4.1.3. Types of narrator: extradiegetic, intradiegetic, metadiegetic

It´s a mix of direct and indirect style. On the one hand, it summarizes what was said by the characters, but also makes them speak through dialogues.

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Intradiegetic, since Esperanza tells all the stories.

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Homodiegetic: Esperanza participates in history as the protagonist.

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Internal perspective

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The author uses the description a lot to emphasize the characteristics and qualities of the characters.

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Anachronisms: Analepsis

4.1.4. Narrative posture: heterodiegetic, homodiegetic narrator 4.1.5. Narrative mode (perspective) zero, internal (intradiegetic) and external (extradiegetic) focus 4.2. Narrative techniques

Example: When Esperanza remember her grandmother.

4.3. Weather

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Months

4.3.1. Order (anachronisms or ruptures of the linear order): analepsis and prolepsis

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Hours

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Presentation: Esperanza feels unhappy when she moves to Mango Street. Although she has friends, she doesn’t feel as if was inside.

4.3.2. Duration 4.3.3. Frequency

4.4. Stages of the narration (presentation, node and outcome)

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Node: Esperanza grows and gets a job, but still have problems with their own identity, friends and ideas about children and men.

4.5. Space (closed, open, symbology, evolution)

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Outcome: Toward the end of the book, Esperanza seems to have found a purpose She knows she wants to become in writer and who wants a home to call her own

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Open

4.6. Style 4.6.1. Phonic level (alliteration, onomatopoeia, etc.)

Streets: Esperanza explains that outsiders (people not from her neighborhood) are afraid to enter. When their neighbor's cousin takes them for a walk, it turns out to be a stolen car. Everyone has fun, but this can be scary for outsiders.

4.6.2. Morphological level (pleonasm, epithet, etc.)

The neighborhood: The local pawn shop is one of the places that Esperanza and Nenny sometimes go. One of the most descriptive environments, the book describes the messy store filled with "tables with feet upside down" and "rows and rows of refrigerators".

4.6.3. Syntactic level (hyperbaton, polysyndeton, asyndeton, etc.) 4.6.4. Semantic level (metaphor, comparison, hyperbole, etc.)

Households: Much of Esperanza's time is spent in her own home. Her mom, dad, two brothers and her younger sister live there with her. Her mother is often described as being overworked.

4.7. Tone (Reflective, melancholic, festive, pathetic, solemn, exhortative, ironic, etc.)

Closed

4.8. Use of language Use of language (colloquial, scientific, formal)

Esperanza’s house: When she lives and spend short times with her family. 

The context focuses on The House on Mango Street, a city that we all know is Chicago, the author's hometown. This suggests that Esperanza's community plays an important role for her, Mango Street, a place she will finally see as her home.

Rhetorical question: Do you see anything? Pag. Onomatopoeia: ¨Oh¨. Peg 30. Anaphora: I want to be Like the wares on the sea Like the clouds in the wind. Enumeration: Wonder woman, the Beatles, Marily momoe. Simile: the dog is big like a man dressed ion dog suit.(peg. 21) Reflective, melancholic, festive,

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Assessment and critical comment

5.1. Values (Social, human, moral, philosophical, aesthetic-literary and recreational) 5.2. Author rating (transcendence) 5.3. Critical judgment (relationship between the theme and the form, validity and philosophy of the IBO