In The House On Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros uses a number of themes to conduct her unique writing style. The use of allusions is one of the many. This technique uses slight hints and indirect references to connect the story to an outside idea. A prime example of this in the text is in the vignette The Monkey Garden. In this chapter Esperanza leaves her childhood behind her after being introduced to the maturity that her friends were showing. In the text Sally plays a game with other boys that involves kissing--Esperanza finds it wrong and tells Sally's mother but she responds in a nonchalant way. Becoming frustrated, Esperanza retreats to the Monkey Garden's tallest tree where she wishes she'd die. The only thing that died would be her childish self. Suddenly the garden became "Not so fun anymore."
When reading this story the allusion seen is a reference made to the famous story "The Garden Of Eden." The Monkey Garden passage includes the setting of a large garden with a tree that seems to grant wishes. In the Garden Of Eden, Adam & Eve sin by daring to eat an apple from the tree they were forbidden to take from. After doing so, the pair were banished from the paradise. In likelihood to The Monkey Garden, Esperanza never came back to the garden as if she took an apple from the tree.
-Akim C.-
Your image is too big. It lies on top of the text so that I can't read the first paragraph.
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