Lacie Ballard

For my freestyle reading assignment I read The House on Mango Street written by Sandra Cisneros. I really enjoyed this story. A young Hispanic girl explains the different places she has lived and how she had hopes to live somewhere nicer. The family finaly lands on a House on Mango street that the family owns. The house is not what the family had hoped for, it was small with a small yard. At a previous house the narrator explains of an encounter she had with a nun.

.."There. I had to look to where she pointed--the third floor, the paint peeling, wooden bars Papa had nailed on the windows so we wouldn't fall out. You live there? The way she said it made me feel like nothing. There, i lived there. I nodded"..

I really found this story to be interesting because I am pursuing and an endorsement in which I would work with children who are learning the English language. Some of these children ,like the narrator, will probably not have stable homes and be in constant transition from homes. As educators or , even people like the nun, need to be more sensitive and aware of ESL students life-styles.