The House on Mango Street: Who's Esperanza most similar to?

The assignment for this blog was to determine which character from all of the readings we've had before is most similar to Esperanza. For me I considered two characters to be similar to her. The first one is Harry Potter. I found that they are similar because they are both young people trying to figure out who they are in the world. They are both trying to make their own identities without having to resort to being identified with their past. In the first few books Harry Potter wants to create his own person, be known as Harry Potter, not just Lily and James son. But in the end he becomes proud of who he is because he has formed his own identity and combined it with his family roots. At the same time I found that Esperanza is similar to Lucy because both of them are women with different struggles they have to endure. In Lucy's case it was trying to break away from her society and her family and to be able to think freely and give in to love. Esperanza's struggle is that of breaking away from her heritage, her traditions which she thinks might be holding her down. Its interesting to analize how all of the characters we've encountered have tried to forge their own identities dispite adversities like society, family and their own personal demons, yet in the end these are the very things that are what make us become who we are. If it werent for these struggles we would not know how to live or what to live for.