Theme

I think exactly what I said on the test. I think that the main theme of The House on Mango Street is poverty. The book is about esperanza, how she lives in poverty and the good and bad times she has with it. "They think we will attack them with shiny knifes"(Those who dont pg. 33). This quote is showing the poverty in the neighborhood they live in. They live in a neighborhood where people come in and fear the poverty that is shown. " Aunt Lala sad she had found a job for me at the Peter Pan Photo Finishers on North Broadway where she worked, and how old i was, and to show up tomorrow saying i was one year older, and that was that"(The First job pg. 65). This quote shows that esperanza had to lie she was a year older to work. This is an indirect characterzation that she needed to make money because her family needed it.