Publisher: Vintage Books Page Count: 112 Fiction Genre: Realistic, Classics, YA Dates Read: June 9, 2015 Summary Esperanza is a young girl living in Chicago. She tells her story through a series on vignettes. Sometimes harsh and heartbreaking, they are also joyous and inspiring. This is the story of a young Latino girl trying to find out who she is and where she belongs. Review People seem to be pretty divided about this book, falling into one of two categories; love it or hate it. I seem to find myself in the latter group. While Cisneros is a good writer, and she had a promising story in The House on Mango Street, her book was flat and one dimensional. This was decent writing quality trapped in an awful story. Because this was told through vignettes, the chapters do not connect to each other; like reading a collection of short stories, but all centered around the same protagonist. Reading this was like reading the nonsensical ramblings of a teenage girl's diary, who refuses to to put her entries in chronological order, let alone date them, and who appears to have amnesia, and forgets things nearly instantly. I wish I could have more positive things to say about this book ... The cover was adequate. There, that's another positive thing. Overall, this book was garbage and I don't know why people love it so much. Rankings (based on a 10 point scale) Quality of writing - 6 Pace - 3 Plot Development - 2 Characters - 4 Enjoyability - 3 Insightfulness - 3 Ease of Reading - 7 Photos/Illustrations - N/A Overall Score - 2 out of 5 stars
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