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[America] Sandra cisneros, Yilin Publishing House, published The Cabin on Mango Street in April 2006.

Green mango flavor

Shen Shengyi

The Latino community in Chicago is poor, crowded, noisy and monotonous. Laughter is so thin, dreams are so far away. I know a little girl, Espe Langsamei, who likes to dress up Sally. She has a strict family education at school and goes straight home. Time, you become a different Sally, your straight skirt. Apply blue eye shadow to your eyelids. You don't laugh, Sally. Xiao Zhang, you may think, one day, your feet are gone, and you go far away to peel mango street. There is a beautiful big house with windows open. Will all the sky rush home? There are no nosy neighbors and messy shops around. "Trees have enough blue sky."

Four thin trees in Lanza, Espe, have children in the front room. She "talked to the tree all night." "They are the only ones who understand me, and I am the only one who understands them." She thought, "My own house." Is there any rubbish picked up by others? "It's just a silent igloo, walking alone in space and wiping paper like a pen before falling."

Later, she finally walked out of the bright purple house on Mango Street. But she can't forget that some time ago, she wrote a poem, which was "A small house on Mango Street-in reality, her name is sandra cisneros. This poem is novel, beautiful, sensitive and delicate. It describes a girl's growth, such as happiness and embarrassment, observation and thinking about Gordon, fantasy and pain.

Life on mango street, sad red hut;

Grandpa died, and the brave father cried. "Wake up in the dark, tired father. I hope my father dies, I hope, I put my father in his arms, I want to hold you and hug him. "

The children looked at the white clouds in the sky and talked about what all kinds of clouds looked like. "Under the sleeping sky, I woke up and got drunk. When you are sad, the sky will give you peace? Comfortable. Too much sadness, not enough sky. There are not enough butterflies, flowers and the most beautiful things. "

Minerva, the young mother, wrote a poem on a small piece of paper after a hard day at midnight. "She asked me to read her poems, and I asked her to read them to me." Her husband has been away from home, and one day he came back and was beaten by her husband. "I don't know her name, so I have no choice."

The husband locked in the room and watched. The beautiful young La Fino has been leaning against the window for too long and is getting old. "The sound of the bar is coming from the corner, and Rafina hopes to dance there before she is twenty."

Marin, where the street lamp dances alone, sings the same song, song. "Her car stopped, waiting for a star to fall, waiting for someone to change her life." ...

These humble people, God is too busy to take care of them, which makes their earth fall again and again.

The fun of "good times" Several children chipped in to buy a bicycle and rode it in the street happily. The fat woman said, you have a lot to pretend. The children shouted: load the goods.

Human comfort. She has new clothes to wear at the party's baptism, but people still lack shoes. Wearing old sandals and others, she was afraid to dance. "Read freely." She said, "You are the most beautiful girl. Take her to dance. ......

I think these stories are the same as those of Spanish writers. I love Sorin's breathing space, gentle pen and ink, and the sadness and pity of obscure people and things, perhaps because they come from a distant cultural resource? Therefore, Nan Xing and sandra cisneros, one of Wang Zengqi's two Sorin works, is also applicable: the shadow of the works is "like a covered stream", and their people are "faced with the irreparable sadness of the world and all the love and attention."

When writing a letter, Miss Mahabalipulan, a teacher, and Xixi sandra cisneros refused to speak or listen to English. She named the narrator of this book "Esperanza", which means "hope" in Spanish, "sadness means waiting", and the color is muddy. "-this is a meaningful symbol. As an immigrant, entering American traditional national culture and the real world is a painful split, resisting the painful pursuit of compromise.

They struggled to escape from that muddy color, even the most fragile pens and poems. Espe Lanza wrote a poem: "I want to be in the waves at sea, in the clouds in the wind,/but I am me/I want to/jump out of my body ..." The dying aunt Lupe said, "Very good, very good." Remember to keep writing. You must write. It will set you free. "

However, freedom does not mean getting rid of it. The little girl said, "You will always be Mango Street. You can't forget, you know you can't forget who you are. Remember to leave, because I don't like you. " Finally, the author said it was the end of the book: "I'm gone, and no one can go out after me."

Sandra Cisneros has never supported those people behind her back, but we can't be a "cabin on Mango Street". It's just a story of racial and cultural conflicts, which belongs to the whole modern world. After reading this book, it naturally occurred to me that foreigners are now in our urban slums.

The little girl's book reminds me of the song of the wolf: "I love children, and the lonely growth in Xianli Street makes me feel my childhood." ......

So this is a story of life.

Ye Zi, come back. The taste of premature green mango is sour, but a faint fragrance and taste will always float in your life, telling you that you will leave forever and you will always come back.

No.20 and No.24, Christmas Eve Street.

Manbu mango street

Huangmei Opera

About the author: Huang Mei, born in 1950, is a famous British and American literary scholar and translator. Reading is one of the main contributors to Vientiane. Master's degree in English from Rutgers University, Ph.D., a few years ago from the US Department of Energy. Member Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, researcher of China Academy of Social Sciences.

The Cabin on Mango Street (1984) is a short story written by the Mexican writer Sandra cisneros (1954-), entitled Life on Mango Street in Cordero, Lanza, Espe. This autobiographical novel incorporates many experiences of my childhood.

About the author

Cisneros was born in a Chicago suburb. His father is Mexican, his mother is Mexican, and he has six brothers. Among the poor Latin American immigrant children, Cisneros suffers from the living conditions of marginalized vulnerable groups. When she was a teenager, her family traveled back and forth between Chicago and Mexico, with no stable residence and no unstable neighbors and friends. This makes her very introverted, eager for friendship and eager to deal with the world. Lonely, she fell in love with reading and learned to observe. She looked around and recorded what she saw and heard.

High school written by Heather? One of Ross's teachers encouraged her to read her own article. The students enthusiastically gave her confidence. After graduating from high school, she went to loyola, University of Chicago, and attended a famous American graduate writing training class, which was suggested after writing class at the University of Iowa.

She is the only Hispanic student in this Iowa writing class. This made her uncomfortable and she couldn't write for a long time. Influenced by culture and thoughts, her understanding of many issues has been greatly improved and deepened. For example, in Bachelard (Bachelard, 1884- 1962), the space poetics of discussion points and students' memory houses are listed as providing comfortable conceptual space. This is her very different personal experience. She realized that his memory was full of all kinds of people in the streets of Spain, and that "home" was a broken house, which made her very embarrassed. The experience of Iowa is very important, she said. "It lets me know my different possessions."

Master's degree, 1978, Cisneros, worked in a middle school and university in Chicago, and had too much contact with poor students. Seeing her predicament and confusion, she reviewed her growth process again and decided to write something. The cabin on Mango Street. American intellectuals in the 20th century attached great importance to the racial issues of culture, which caused considerable repercussions and controversies in this book. 1985 was awarded the American Book Award by the former Columbus Foundation and moved to the classrooms of universities, primary and secondary schools. 1989 obtained the copyright of Norton Selected Readings of American Literature, which was later published by Random House, a big publishing house, and the paperback was released at the same time. Various aliases are introduced, Harold, a professor of literature at Yale University? Bloom also wrote a review himself. Some instructions are very detailed, almost explaining the performance part paragraph by paragraph, which is obviously better than the original length. There are also some surprising children's books that are not quoted by classics and are fluent in language, which can be said to be the specific landscape of contemporary American culture.

Hisneros is famous for another service. He has been writing in some schools. Her works also include poetry anthology Bad Boy (1980), Slut (1994) and short story collection Crying for a Woman and Others (199 1).

The girl whispered

Muttering girl Espe Lanza? A drow exists.

The monologue of Mango Street consists of 44 paragraphs. Each part revolves around a different theme. "Duan" or "Literature" [1] About Little Espeland Zha, she left a mark in her mind, with rich experience, or someone around her, or hair, clouds, trees, Huang Yuan, etc.

Walking into Mango Street, facing the world, our first contact, the voice. People often use the word "clear water". Although it is not as pure and bright as studying in Chad, gradually, we will distinguish the feelings that adults of composite materials should remember, but the most important and impressive thing is the voice of a sensitive little girl in her teens. In the imagination of my family and friends, Espe Lanza Jr. speaks, as I can say, without excuses, gaps and distances.

"Don't always live in Mango Street. Previously, we lived in Loomis on the third floor, but before that, we lived in guitar music ... "This almost transparent statement directly started Codero's life. So we realize that this is a poor family without a fixed address, and the expansion of family members and living conditions have been bad. The biggest wish of the family is to have a decent and convenient house, such as a "TV". Mango Street's "new home" is disappointing, not what they want, but they have moved to another house and lived in rags.

At that time, the stone that would shine like the sun caught our attention unexpectedly. At this time, we might as well stop and listen to the intonation, these words and commodities, and the system will prompt their images. For example, the new home on Mango Street is a little red house. The narrow window in front of the house is so small that you feel that if you hold your breath. In many places, the front doors of brick walls are swollen and tightly packed, and you have to use great strength to push them open. "Hold your breath and look at the window and the swollen door. How to be lifelike? What kind of person would have such an idea? The anthropomorphic brushwork shows that not everything is the soul of the living fairy tale world. Of course, the metaphor of the new image implies that feelings are not necessarily simple and difficult: small windows may mean depression and expansion, pain first, and so on.

For example, in Boys and Girls, Espe Lanza Jr. said to himself, "One day, I will have a friend of my own good friend. The secret she confided to me was a friend who could understand my jokes. Until then, I will always be the only Le Ballon Rouge. " Red balloons? Why the red balloon? Put the signal on? Floating alone? Hope to break the infinite? Still anxiously waiting to know each other? Our heart presents a high-quality Le Ballon Rouge, and the current trend is the eyes of a busy and eager little girl. Perhaps this is enough, this is the best feeling, except that there is no need for more explanation, and there is no clear definition: the balloon means what it symbolizes.

It has my mother's hair and smells like her mother. Everyone's fortune is different. But only mom's hair, mom's hair, yo, it's like a little rosette, a little candy world ... stick your nose in it and smell it ... it smells delicious, the smell of hot bread baking, her blanket and body temperature. "Smell the smell of hair from the outside, and then snuggle up to your mother's monologue. This idea is a step-by-step drift, which makes you feel wonderful when you lie on your mother's body:" You sleep outside her, it rains, dad snores, snores, it rains, and mom's bread smells like head. "Ode to a mother's love, the change of voice is too obvious. We not only heard the little girl rebeccalu breathing, but also vaguely smelled the memories of adult women, which was intoxicating.

What songs are there? ......

After a short stay in these poetic moments, I once spent a little time staring at the sparse raindrops on the wet floor tiles of Beijing Siheyuan. It was many years ago-the memory of the sky was faintly obscured by summer. Different readers have different feelings, of course, but young adults, if you read slowly, then Espe Langsha's Twitter ticket reflects some images of your heart in the mirror, which will evoke some associations, beat the rhythm and echo the melody, which is a wonderful experience-even if it hurts sometimes. "story"

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Behind Mango Street "is a relatively independent festival", but they are essentially related to summing up the story of a growing American city "about a poor Mexican girl. One of My Names, described by Espe Lanza: Her long multi-syllable name comes from a Spanish student in an American school, which is embarrassing and funny. She knows very well that they all belong to the "brown race".

Racial differences and contradictions are very prominent and sensitive. As descendants of Latin American immigrants, the problems of skin color and race in American society often mean family poverty, discrimination and cultural barriers and losses. Therefore, the growth of Espe Lanza contains rich sociological contents. Bloom said: Rereading Mango Street is either a literary experience or a reminder of the life and traditions of the Mexican (Spanish) people. [2] His editorial comments mainly focus on race, gender-related issues, wealth, identity and cultural differences.

After arriving at Mango Street, Espe Lanza's friend was a cat queen Kathy at the front of the meeting. Kathy's family keeps cats, and even a cat walks freely in the table. Obviously, poor families can't really notice that little Kathy is very friendly. She is a new girl next door. She introduces herself to local neighborhood committees and shops. However, she will still have her own relatives in France, "family", and will break up. Some people say that the class of Drouet (non-white) community has declined, so she will move north, and newcomers will be warned not to play the Lucy sisters who are "sloppy like mice". Children seem to understand that if we completely and cruelly reflect the contradictions, shortcomings and prejudices of adult society.

We are aware of Latin American immigrants, many of whom look at Mango Street through the eyes of Espe Lanza Jr. Kathy left and moved into her house, one of which. Puerto Ricans live in the basement of his house-a teenager stole a yellow Cadillac limousine, put all his neighbors' children in a narrow street with Internet addiction, and was arrested by the police. Want to save money, Puerto Rico. Her boyfriend got married in America and wanted Marlene. A man abandoned by a single mother thinks of another kind of rough husband: her children have great difficulties in making a living, and the little guy has no discipline and talks nonsense, which will lead to great disaster one day. Mother Sita, there is a fat woman who has just arrived in Hong Kong and settled in America. She refused to go downstairs and didn't want to speak English. ......

Lunch can tell us a lot. Little Espe Langsha looked at the helpless lunch "Special Children" in the school cafeteria. Restaurant! Which name sounds special. "[3] Espe Lanza Jr. did everything possible to persuade his mother to send her meals. Mother asked for a capable mother, but nothing was convincing. She went to mommy, tortured her, and stayed at school for almost a day to eat. Finally, she didn't have a canteen with tears. She was so disappointed that she ate cold drinks and greasy rice sandwiches (her lunch meat), so she was filled with humiliation. I'm afraid it takes some imagination to fully understand the great temptation of the school cafeteria to children. What a miserable and humble situation it is for the right of catering to turn the ordinary into a beautiful and brilliant experience. In addition, we can feel the atmosphere of poor Hispanic children studying in Catholic schools from their mother's words and deeds.

Of course, all poor children have their own happiness. Esperanza ignored Kathy's warning, Lucy's sister and friend. Their partner's chip bought a three-crowded old bicycle and maneuvered across the block. This is a "beautiful day". Jill, twenty years old in a second-hand furniture store, is short, dark and dirty. She has only some rags, but she still has endless charm for children-such as a music box that can make wonderful sounds. Looking up at the nature of clouds provides an opportunity to explore "science" and "beauty". Singing songs and skipping the happy games of ordinary children in this street.

The experience of attending the little cousin's baptist church was mixed. Espe Lanza's mother bought a bright new skirt instead of new shoes. Let her lose heart, the party dare not dance with boys. However, it has strong feelings for Mexican immigrant families and compatriots. Everyone is very distant from the children taken care of by the elderly and thinks they are "cousins". Later, Espe Lanza Shu Qiao Villa encouraged and invited you to enter the dance floor, dancing crazily, and the cheerful and incomparable scenery.

Adolescence, when the pupated butterfly is in turmoil, it comes unconsciously. The little girl began to pay attention to his hips and waist. They are dancing and skipping rope, half naive and half singing as soon as possible. They put on colorful old high heels and gave gifts in the street. They became interested in having boys. Heslan began to do odd jobs. Her photo was put in the studio, and the polite and humble Asian suddenly kissed her. We can almost hear her heartbeat, feel her embarrassment and fear, and can't help but feel that Asians are stuck in narrative situations, and some vague guesses come from their mentality and motivation.

The real kiss happened after this. The carnival playground agreed to meet his girlfriend, but Sally didn't show up, and a group of boys pestered and kissed Espe Lanza forcibly. It's torn Girls love fantasy.

Sally, you lied. I thought you said that. ... all the stories and movies, why did you lie to me? ......

Sally Sally is a hundred times. Why am I calling you? Can you not listen? Why don't you ask them and leave me alone? Who grabbed my arm? He asked me to go. He said, I love you, I love you, Spanish girl, and then put his sour lips on mine.

..... I can do nothing but cry. I don't remember. Darkness. I don't remember. Please don't let me tell the whole story.

Sally hangs out with her boyfriend and forgets her girlfriend? Or worse, betrayed her? In this section, every paragraph of Sally is about the object, but it is obviously the language of Lanza in Espe after independence. This sounds flustered, an urgent appeal and accusation, boasting of disillusionment with women's friendship and fear, anxiety and disappointment with boys. The sentence "Don't let me? Give us more hints: maybe there is a bigger infringement? The Spanish girl said that this encounter revealed the behind of racial problems. There is no obvious white mango street. It may be a boy with a strange name from outside.

However, no matter how much pressure there is, how many setbacks and injuries, Espe Langsha will break through the obstacles of masonry and grow tenaciously, just like the four thin trees near her home. She talks to them every day: "Their strength is a mystery. Fierce roots spread underground. They grow up and down, pay close attention to the soil, their bearded toes and fierce teeth gnaw at the sky, so the trees are like an unstoppable. Secret Espe Lanza's painful moment was thinking about the animal tree. She wants to leave Mango Street one day when she grows up.

Leaving means more meaningful rewards-with the wind in August, the arrival of the three sisters warned "when you leave, remember others." You know, you can't forget, don't forget who you are. "If you want to leave Mango Street, the responsibility and the expectation of success and the pursuit of prosperity are almost equal, and then returning to Mango Street will go beyond the usual' American Dream', in essence.

Many critics emphasize that this book is another important concern about gender issues. Some people say that mango street has a poor male image, but it is not. The tired father woke up in the middle of the night with the consideration of the party, and the overseas Chinese were comfortable. Many people struggle to make a living and support people with families. Their sketches are obviously full of sympathy. Of course, the same pen unambiguously wrote: Sally Minerva, these women who were beaten by their fathers or husbands, wrote the thoughts and behaviors of Mexicans in outdated or absurd gender-because no one is a part of life in Mango Street. tell

Steady and kind, we heard the difference between boys and girls in Little Espe Lanza, realized the noble feelings of her housewife (including the children of mother and egret), abandoned the design life that witnessed her from birth, and finally married Marin and Sally. Wait a minute. These girls are more and more concerned about problems, but adult women are still thinking about problems. Fortunately, artistic intuition, so she won't have too many topics, not specific real life experiences. Therefore, the colorful life picture of Mexican girls in the United States is presented to readers, rather than gender preaching.

The house is the dream of Espe Lanza Jr., which also symbolizes that the core of this book is about dreams.

Their parents always tell us that one day we will enter a house, a really big house ... Our house has running water and good water pipes, real stairs, and there is a narrow staircase in the hall, but just like the stairs in the house on TV, we have a basement with at least three bathrooms and bathtubs. When you don't tell everyone, our house is white. Around the tree, there is a big yard with long grass and no fence. Before we go to bed, this is my father talking about the house, holding a lottery ticket, and my mother, who told us this story happened.

Espe Lanza Jr. grew up gradually, adding new content to her dream house. She talked about the houses on the hillside, how charming. "She envies living on the mountain, and people sleep so close to the stars, but she also clearly knows those advanced people." Forget those who live on the ground. So, she thought: One day, there will be a house on her mountain and a shelter for the homeless in the attic.

Her housing dream began with "the other", but to a greater extent, she entered the metaphysical pursuit. "Close to finishing his own room," she described his wish for her house again.

Not a small apartment, but also a large apartment, with an unknown side. Is it a man's house? Is it his father's? Because it's entirely my own. This is my front porch, my pillow and my beautiful purple petunias. My book and my story ......

Just a quiet igloo, a space walk, as a clean paper left by poetry creation.

The title of this part echoes Virginia Woolf's famous My House. We heard the word, which is the voice of Espe Lanza. Of course, the concept expressed here is probably inconclusive, but the feeling of a specific period. Espe Lanza Jr. won't forget that they originally planned to keep the attic. Maybe her future "own" space will be connected with other people's spaces (including men and fathers) in some way.

Dreams and wishes cannot appear out of thin air.

We can't help thinking of a little girl related to classics. Is it Toni's dream? Morrison's The Bluest Blue Eye (1970). Why do little black girls yearn for blue eyes? When the black teenager singer Michael. After Jackson became famous and made a fortune, their daughter bought an ultra-luxurious manor to fight, even at the expense of replacing it. Their skin was a little horribly white, which made these amazing dreams come from his childhood dream of a mansion and fair skin. Dro wants to be admitted to a house like a TV program, of course, because they want to get rid of poverty and make their life better. However, it is undeniable that TV and other media represent the result of "brainwashing" of strong culture and mainstream lifestyle. Otherwise, why don't they yearn for the lifestyle of people in other countries?

We still remember the mother Sita who always advocated "no English", but she couldn't stop her little son from speaking English, which broke her heart. The first song the children will sing is Pepsi's jingle. How to grow up Children listen to English and dream about their future life. Whose dream really stands for "OK". Similarly, the importance of Espe Lanza Jr.' s new shoes for the party. Why is she so eager for valuable new clothes and shoes? Why is an old pair of shoes a disgrace to her? Even her feet dare not cross the eyes of the boy she mentioned in her description. However, if we are willing to look at the thinking of "why", it is difficult to understand the potential "line" in the follow-up. The atmosphere of commercial consumer goods to define what is "beauty" and "decent" standard bullying! Psychological process is a kind of "natural" male sexual desire from one's own object to another, interwoven with hazy sexual awakening. Who is the naive girl?

In this sense, we are lucky that esperanza Jr.' s modification enriches our dreams, and at the same time represents the mysterious figure of the Mexican indigenous cultural witch, pointing out that her dream is a kind of progress and creation of strength. However, dream is also a need analysis, criticism and correction that needs to be determined.

Let's finish the preface of the above-mentioned "dream".

Many young and not young early readers, this is a useful book. No matter as a literary experience, it can also cause emotional communication and singing. No matter when writing with reference to your own experimental pen, it can also lead to observation and thinking about life and society.

Walk slowly along Mango Street.