The vignette that resonated me the most in the weeks reading of “The House On Mango Street” was titled “Minerva Writes Poems”. This vignette detailed a generational curse of being a single mother. It also details how much some women will put up with so they won’t be alone. Growing up in a family of majority women and having a lot of female friends, I’ve witnessed what Minerva is going through on many occasions. The domestic violence, the humility, the abandonment issues, and the toxicity around children were some of the things discussed with women and men as I became a listening ear too many. In the vignette where it states “one days is through and lets him know enough is enough” is something that I feel we all can relate to. At some point in an unhappy relationship, we say these words. We act on it and then we realize it kind of gets lonely. In Minerva case she was extremely forgiven and she lets her man back in. There is no change, but the same toxic behavior appears as soon as he is forgiven. Physically she doesn’t have an out, but I think that writing poems is therapeutic for her.
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