Theme: The House on Mango Street

When reading the House on Mango Street, the theme that came across to me is that you will always be closer and love your family more than you do your friends, even if your family is getting on your nerves. A lot of times Esperanza refers to how irritating her sister Nenny is and that she would have chose someone else besides Nenny if she was given the chance. It said that in Boys and Girls when she stated: You don’t get to choose your sisters. You just get them and sometimes they come like Nenny. (I no longer have the book so I may not have the exact quote.) She also talks a lot about how childish her sister can act at times and how it embarrasses her that her friends have to see her acting like that, but she can not do anything about it because Nenny is her sister. On the contrary, there was a time when Esperanza could not relate to her friends, but only to her sister. In the chapter called Laughter it said: Rachel and Lucy look at me like I'm crazy, but before they can let out a laugh Nenny says: That's Mexico all right. That’s exactly what I was thinking. It shows the special bond between Esperanza and Nenny that they can relate to each other in a way that might seem crazy to others.