The vignette I related the most to form this week’s reading is “Mango Says Goodbye Sometimes”. In the beginning Esperanza talks about how she likes to tell stories, she says: “I make a story for my life, for each step my brown shoe takes”. (109) That reminded me that as kids we create these phantasy worlds which are fun and entertaining and we would spend hours creating a perfect, little universe in our head. When she talks about her feelings about the house: “The house I belong but do not belong to” I understand because I had a similar feeling growing up at some point. My family had to move across the country and the house we ended up living at raised very similar feelings for me. It felt at times too cramped and it was on the busiest street and noisy. Now looking back I have fond memories of us living there regardless of it being far from perfect. And the last two closing sentences: “They will not know I have gone away to come back. For the ones I left behind. For the ones who cannot out.” (110) I think show that Esperanza does feel that she belongs to Mango Street after all.
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