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Activity 1<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read about Sandra Cisneros, <\/a>the author of The House on Mango<\/em> Street on the Biography Reference Center database in the BMCC online library.<\/p>\n

Activity 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

The House on Mango Street<\/em> is composed of a collection of vignettes,<\/a> which piece together the story of a young Mexican-American woman as she explores various facets of her identity and culture.\u00a0 These vignettes, as the author has remarked, work to “tell one big story, each story contributing to the whole\u2014like beads in a necklace,” The book, with its focus on moral and psychological maturation, is often regarded as a bildungsroman.<\/a><\/p>\n

Activity 3<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read The House on Mango Street <\/a>from page 3 (“The House on Mango Street”) through page 79 (“The Earl of Tennessee”).<\/p>\n

Activity 4<\/strong><\/p>\n

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This short reading guide<\/a> might help focus your ideas about the vignettes.<\/p>\n

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