The House on Mango Street芒果街上的小屋

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埃斯佩兰萨搬入芒果街小屋的同年便与莎莉结为 好友。虽然莎莉与埃斯佩兰萨同岁,但是她在性 方面更大胆,在艾斯普兰莎眼里她魅力十足。其 实对于埃斯佩兰萨来说,莎莉可不是什么好朋友, 因为她重色轻友。莎莉的父亲是个粗俗的家伙。 莎莉初中还没毕业就辍学与一名男子结婚了,但 他不让莎莉与她的朋友见面,也不让她离开家。 埃斯佩兰萨认为应该给莎莉关切与保护。
在《芒果街上的小屋》一书 中,希斯内罗丝描述的重点 是生活在一个很大程度上仍 是家长制的西班牙后裔社会 当中的女性问题。《芒果街 上的小屋》一书当中出现了 很多非诗非完整故事的短文, 希斯内罗丝称其为“懒散诗 文”。这些短文有时只有二 三个段落,但像诗歌一样有 内在的韵律。
Esperanza The novel's heroine and narrator,an approximately twelve-year-old Chicana(Mexican-American girl).Esperanza is a budding writer who wishes for a home of her own. The name Esperanza means"hope"in Spanish. 小说的女主角兼叙事者,一个大约12 岁的墨西哥裔美国少女。埃斯佩兰萨 是一个崭露头角的作家,一心想要自 己的房子。艾斯普兰莎在西班牙语当 中是“希望”的意思。
是在情感上都变得成熟了。小说清晰的记录了 她这一年的生活——交朋友,臀围变大,有了 初恋,经历了性侵犯,最后,开始以写作为手 段来表达自己和逃离这里。小说也讲述了她的 许多邻居的故事,从而勾勒出这个社区的全景, 进而为艾斯普兰莎指明了未来可选择的多种道 路。
Plot Overview
After moving to the house, Esperanza quickly befriends Lucy and Rachel, two Chicana girls who live across the street. During the first half of the year, the girls are content to live and play in their child's world.They buy a bike,learn exciting stories about boys from a young woman named Marin,explore a junk shop,and have intimate conversations whlie playing Double Dutch (jumping rope) 一搬到芒果街,埃斯佩兰萨就立即与露 丝和瑞切尔这两个墨裔美国女孩结为朋 友。她俩住在街的对面。在这一年的前 半段时间里,女孩们生活得很开心,尽 情地在孩童的世界里玩耍。她们买了一 辆自行车;从一个叫玛琳的女人那里听 到很多关于男孩的有趣故事;在旧货店 淘宝;一边玩跳绳一边亲密交谈。
Major Character
Rachel and Lucy Esperanza's best friends,Rachel and Lucy are Mexican-American sisters who live across the street from Esperanza.Lucy, the older sister,was born in Chicago.Esperanza eventually chooses a more sexually mature friend,Sally. 埃斯佩兰萨最好的朋友。她俩都是墨 西哥裔美国少女,住在埃斯佩兰萨家 的街对面。姐姐露丝在德克萨斯出生, 妹妹瑞切尔在芝加哥出生。而埃斯佩 兰萨最终选择了性意识更加成熟的莎 莉做朋友。
埃斯佩兰萨的父亲。出生在墨西哥,爸爸不像社 区内其他父亲那样专横。他整天忙着工作而很少 在家。
Mama Esperanza's mother.Mama grew up in the United States. She is one of the strongestwilled and smartest women in the novel,yet she seems to influence Esperanza very little.
THE House on
Mango Street
芒果街上的小屋
Author
Sandra Cisneros
Sandra Cisneros (born December 20, 1954) is an American writer best known for her acclaimed first novel The House on Mango Street (1984) and her subsequent short story collection Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (1991). Her work experiments with literary forms and investigates emerging subject positions, which Cisneros herself attributes to growing up in a context of cultural hybridity and economic inequality that endowed her with unique stories to tell.She is the recipient of numerous awards including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and is regarded as a key figure in Chicana literature.
Major Character
Papa Esperanza's father.Originally from Mexico,Papa is less domineering than other father figures in the neighborhood.He works most of the time and is rarely home.
《芒果街上的小屋》通过一系 列的短文,记录了墨裔美国少 女艾斯普兰莎一年的生活时光。 故事开始时,埃斯佩兰萨大约 12岁,在这一年里,她随父母 搬进了位于芒果街的住所。
Plot Overview
The house is a huge improvement from the family's previous apartment,and it is the first home her parents actually own.However, the house is not what Esperanza has dreamed of,because it is run-down and small.Esperanza does not have any privacy,and she resolves that she will someday leave Mango Street and have a house all her own. 这里的居住条件比先前的要强百倍, 而且这是她家买下的第一幢房子。但 是,这套房子与埃斯佩兰萨梦想当中 的相差甚远,因为它破败而狭小。埃 斯佩兰萨没有丝毫的私人空间,所以 她下定决心将来一定要离开这里并且 要有一所自己的房子。
Format
In The house on Mango Street ,Cisneros focuses on the problems of being a woman in a largely patriarchal Hispanic society. The house on Mango Street consists of what Cisneros calls "lazy poems," vignettes that are not quite poems and not quite full stories. The vignettes are sometimes only two or three paragraphs long, and they often contain internal rhymes,as a poem might.
桑德拉·希斯内罗丝 桑德拉·西斯内罗斯(生于1954 年12月20日)是一位美国作家, 她以第一部小说《芒果街上的 小屋》(1984)著名和她的后续 短篇小说集合《喊女溪及其他》 (1991)。她的书行文清澈,亲 切易懂,以女性作家特有的敏 感笔触,述说着淡淡的喜悦与 忧伤。她是获得无数荣誉包括 国家艺术基金会奖学金,并被视 为一个女奇卡诺人的文献.
Plot Overview
Esperanza matures significantly dring the year,both sexually and emotionally. The novel charts her life as she makes friends,grows hips, developes her first crush, endures sexual assault ,and begins to write as a way of expressing herself and ad a way to escape the neighborhood. The novel also includes the stories of the neighborhood and showing the many possible paths Esperanza may follow in the future. 只是在这一年,埃斯佩兰萨无论从性意识上还
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This second half of The House on Mango Street presents a string of stories about older woman in the neighborhood. Over the summer,Esperanza slips into puberty and she befriends Sally,a girl of her age. But because Esperanza disagrees with Sally's sexual experience, their friendship results in a crisis.When Sally leaves Esperanza alone,a group of boys sexually assaults Esperanza in her absence. 小说的下半段是一连串有关这个社区里 的成年女性的故事。暑假过后,埃斯佩 兰萨进入了发育期,与同岁的莎莉结为 朋友。但是因为艾斯普兰莎不认同莎莉 的性经验,她们之间的友谊也由此陷入 危机。莎莉的离开让埃斯佩兰萨落了单, 一群男孩子趁机强暴了她。
Major Character
Sally A young girl Esperanza befriends the same year she moves to Mango Street .Sally is the same age as Esperanza.She is not a good friend to Esperanza, abandonoing her time and again to go off with boys.She has a physically abusive father and runs off before eighth grade to marry a man who won't let her see her friends or leave the house.Esperanza feels protective of Sally.
埃斯佩兰萨的母亲。妈妈在美国长大,她是书中 意志坚定且聪明绝顶的女性之一。但是她对埃斯 佩兰萨的影响似乎微乎其微。
Major Character
On a series of vignettes,The House on Mango Street covers a year in the life of Esperanza, a Chicana ( Mexian-American girl ), who is about twelve years old when the novel begins.
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