House on Mango Street Summary

Although the novel does not follow a traditional chronological pattern, a story emerges, nevertheless, of Esperanza's self-empowerment and will to overcome obstacles of poverty, gender, and race. The novel begins when the Cordero family move into a new house, the first they have ever owned, on Mango Street in the Latino section of Chicago. Esperanza is disappointed by the red, ramshackle house. It is not at all the dream-house her parents had always talked about, nor is it the house high on a hill that Esperanza vows to one day own herself.
Esperanza is not only ashamed of her home, but she is also uncomfortable with her outside appearance, which she feels does not convey the true personality hidden insider her. She is very self-conscious about her name, whose mispronunciation by teachers and peers at school sounds very ugly to her ears. Esperanza was named after her great- grandmother, who was tricked into marriage and doomed to a life of sadness afterwards. Esperanza vows that she will not end up like the first Esperanza and so many women do- watching life pass by through the window. To break free from her name connotations, she longs to rename herself "Zeze the X," a choice she finds more reflective of her true self.
As the new girl on the block, Esperanza observes many of life's most joyous and harsh realities while meeting her Mango Street neighbors. Her first friend, Cathy, is a short-lived friendship because Cathy's father soon moves the family away because the neighborhood is getting bad, or in other words becoming more inhabited by lower-class Latinos like Esperanza's family. Two other young sisters, however, adopt Esperanza into their circle when she chips in money to help them buy a bicycle. Lucy and Rachel help Esperanza ponder the wonders of growing up by inventing rhymes about hips and parading around Mango Street in high-heeled shoes.

The House on Mango Street Summary

The House on Mango Street is a bildungsroman (coming-of-age story) of a young Chicana (Mexican-American) girl named Esperanza Cordero. The book is told in small vignettes which act as both chapters of a novel and independent short stories or prose poems. The story encompasses a year in Esperanza’s life, as she moves to a house on Mango Street in a barrio (Latino neighborhood) of Chicago, Illinois. The house on Mango Street is an improvement over Esperanza’s previous residences, but it is still not the house she or her family dreams of, and throughout the book Esperanza feels that she doesn’t belong there.

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CHAPAINAWABGANJ, Jan 23: A newly constructed Shahid Minar was inaugurated on Chapai-Maheshpur Government Primary School premises in memory of those who embraced martyrdom during the language movement and the War of Independence in 1971, reports BSS. The monument was constructed at a cost of about Taka 10 lakh under upazila parishad fund. Chairman of Chapainawabganj sadar upazila Md. Ruhul Amin inaugurated the Shahid Minar. A large number of people were present. After the inaugural ceremony, a mothers' gathering was also held on the school premises with the president of the school managing committee Tashem Ali in the chair. Among others, upazila chairman Md. Ruhul Amin, Upazila Nirbahi Officer Dr Chitralekha Naznin, chairman of Gobratala UP Ariful Islam Azizi and Chapaina-wabganj sadar upazila primary education officer Shamim Ahmed spoke on the occasion. 

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Shibganj Upazila is divided into Shibganj Municipality and 15 union parishads: Binodpur, Chakkirti, Chhatrajitpur, Daipukuria, Dhainagar, Durlovpur, Ghorapakhia, Kansat, Mobarakpur, Monakasha, Noyalavanga, Panka, Shahbajpur, Shyampur, and Ujirpur. The union parishads are subdivided into 199 mauzas and 407 villages.
Shibganj Municipality is subdivided into 9 wards and 31 mahallas

Pukhuria village

In between Shibganj and Kansat lies a small village Pukhuria with natural pictures and mango trees. Pukhuria village is situated on the bank of river Ganges where river Ganges enters Bengal. This village had Muslim and Hindu populations.

New Alidanga village

This village lies in the center of Shibganj pourosova. This is a very small village. This village is just beside the river Pagla which is one of the major river in Shibganj upazila. The main crematorium of Shibganj upazila is situated in this village. This crematorium is not an ordinary crematorium. This crematorium has a long and a glorious history and this is one of the main tirthaksetra of Hindus. A very big religious fair is also arranged every year around this crematorium.

Hindu heritage

Shibganj has a few well known places with Hindu heritage, Kanshat town and Kansat Bazar. Most of the wealthy Hindus left East Pakistan for India after Partition of India in 1947. One of Hindu families used to live by the side of the Shahanbandha lake or pookoor and the origin of village's name Pukhuria. The Hindu family was known as Ghosh family. Ghosh family had a manor by the side of the lake and surrounded on three sides by mango, coconut and date palm trees. This manor had an entrance with Ashoka trees. Ghosh family lived there for hundreds of years. Ramesh Chandra Ghosh was born there and studied at Malda Zilla School and Calcutta University and became a lawyer, after having MA LLB. He practised Law at Chapai Nawabganj of Malda District and later at Malda town. He was a politician and imprisoned by British colonial government of India during independence movements of the 1940s. He was a political colleague of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. Ramesh Chandra Ghosh married Shoilobala Sen of Coochbehar. Family of Shoilobala Sen was a friend of the then Maharaja of Cooch Behar. They had 4 sons and 2 daughters. Their eldest daughter was the first female who graduated (BA) from Calcutta University in that area. One son became principal of a college at Howrah near Kolkata, two sons became physician graduating from Kolkata NRS Medical College (formerly known as Campbell Medical College), and another became Chief Architect of Calcutta and had postgraduate qualification from United States. One of their physician sons went to UK and married an English lady and settled there and worked in UK National Health Service and had several achievements. He is mentioned in "Who's Who Indians in Britain."