House on Mango Street: Four Skinny Trees

The Trees of Hope and Courage In The House on Mango Street, the creator Sandra Cisneros takes you into a completely different world through the eyes of a young, insecure Esperanza growing up in a poor component part of Chicago. A vignette that especially stood out was four-spot Skinny Trees. In this vignette Esperanza is describing four skinny trees that ar overlooked and underappreciated. Cisneros uses powerful prosopopoeia techniques that non only create vivid images only when trigger eager reactions. Her words trigger despair and expect, fear and courage, strength and weakness.Esperanza is connected to these trees on an emotional level because what she is imagining in these trees is what she sees in herself. The trees served as emotional guides inform Esperanza to have confidence. Cisneros projects Esperanzas emotions onto these four skinny trees though powerful avatar techniques. Esperanza sees a distinct parallel surrounded by her life and the trees. Esperanza feels as if, They be the only ones who understand me. I am the only one who understands them (74).Esperanza sees herself in these trees, with skinny necks and pointy elbows desire mine (74). She sees these scrawny trees trapped in the cover of Mango Street and can relate because she too is stuck in the cover of Mango Street. Esperanza sees a parallel between her and the trees and imagines these trees with souls and emotions that reflect her own. She perceives the trees as spacious of anger, They grow up and they grow down and grab the earth between their hairy toes and bite the sky with violent teeth and never preferably their anger (74).It is apparent that these trees arent really angry but that Esperanza is embedding her secret rage into these trees. Cisneros vivid personification makes the trees strong symbols of Esperanzas emotions, her anger, fear, inconsequence and as well her apply, courage and importance. These trees are misplaced and misunderstood but yet they nutriment on growing, honor on fighting. They continue to exist, not giving up, Four who grew patronage concrete (75). The four scrawny, angry trees symbolize both bank and courage.To Esperanza these trees symbolize an emotional guide, they teach her she can trade despair for hope and fear for courage. The trees are teachers. The trees could very well surrender, theyd all waste ones time like tulips in a glass, each with arms around the another(prenominal) (75). But they dont they keep on growing despite that they do not belong. Esperanza takes courage from the trees to never give up. Esperanza has learned from these trees how to execute a peace with who she is.These four skinny trees that were probably planted by some city worker on a concrete slab are objects in which Esperanza has brought to life with her own emotions. Because they too are misplaced like Esperanza but yet they continue to be and keep growing, they do not give up. They have taught her not to surrender to who she is b ut to accept it and keep growing. One day Esperanza will leave Mango Street but instead of living with despair waiting to escape she is living with hope for the future and the courage to be strong throughout the process.