What is next for Esperanza?

Is Esperanza leaving? Forever? Finally! At the end of The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros! As we read the last four vignettes the four vignette describes her choice of getting her own real house and possibly moving out and from Mango Street forever?

“When you leave you must remember to come back for others. A circle, understand? You will always be Esperanza. You will always be Mango Street. You can’t erase what you know. You can’t forget who you are” (105)

Esperanza had dealt with many things in her life when she first moved into her house on Mango Street. She wanted to make new friends. In this book it describes her life when she moved and what happens after she moves and how her life was like. The quote represents how Esperanza plans on leaving. Possibly go to college or get a good education. Everything that Esperanza says in this books represents her life and childhood has she looks back on these moments in the book. The one that really represents herself is the house itself. The house will always be a part of her because of the moments she had with herself, friends, and family also. Esperanza has to come back and come back for the ones she left behind and I believe that she will do that. One of the important reasons why she would come back is because she wrote this book so that she would not miss the House on Mango Street.

“Before Keeler it was Paulina, but what I remember most is Mango Street, sad red house, the house I belong but do not belong to.”

Esperanza’s teen childhood is bases around Mango Street. All the symbolism she had encountered while living in Mango Street means something in her life like windows as being trapped or stuck, red as being something dark and sad, and pink as her past childhood that she is not willing to give up. All of these symbolism represents her time at Mango Street. She believes that she does belong in Mango Street in some parts but at the same time she believes that she does not belong here. Stuck in the middle between belonging and not belonging, she chose to spread her wings and be more independent somewhere else other than Mango Street but will come back.