Be True To Yourself, Its What Makes Who You Are

I have just finished the book "The House On Mango Street" By Sandra Cisneros. This book is about a 12 year-old girl, Esperanza, who has moved from house to house ever since she was a little kid. She changes throughout the book, because in the beginning, she doesn't even know what she is in this world. So, throughout the book she goes along making of herself what she wants to be for the future and by the end she realizes what she is and that she must love herself because that is what makes her beautiful.

In the beginning of the book, Esperanza doesn't want to be herself, come from the background she comes from, or even have the name she was given. She wants top change everything about herself. "At school they say my name funny.... I would like to baptize myself under a new name, a name more like the real me, the one nobody sees." (1) This shows that she feels out casted because of her name. She feels that her name is not her personality, and doesn't even come close to trying to show it, that is something that shes fixes later in the book, but also as the book goes along her feelings about a lot of things about herself change.

By the end of the book, Esperanza was more self confident and let lose more to find the inner her she never thought could be there. She learned to accepted who she is, even the funny ways people say her name because it is all part of who she is and will always be. "Today we are Cinderella because our feet fit exactly.... Lucy, Rachel, me tee-tottering like so. Down the corner where the men can't take their eyes off us. We must be Christmas.... On the avenue a boy on a homemade bicycle calls out: Ladies, lead me to heaven." (40-41) This shows that she was willing to go out and try new stuff, as long as it meant finding the person she is inside. Also, Lucy and Rachel are friends she made on mango street, she had never had official friends before this and she was happy to finally be starting a friendship she felt would last forever.

I can conclude from all the details from the text that Esperanza had low self-esteem and needed to find who she was as a person so that she could, in the future, be a person that she could be proud of.