Comparing the Minority Experience in Baby of the Family, and House on M

Women Minority Experience in Baby of the Family, and manse on mango tree Street The two novels Baby of the Family, and House on Mango Street expose the minority experience through the perspective of a child, struggling to line up an identity in their own unequalled views of the husbandrys they are growing up in. The life of Lenas family, one of an upper class African American family in the southern part of the United States, appeals to the ideal of the immature American as her family blends the dominant culture with their minority background in their everyday life experiences. Esperanza is a Hispanic youth, growing up in a barrio, where there is non much to offer the Hispanic locals. She ultimately feels the profile the of the New American in her view of attaining a better life, and escaping the suffocating prescence of the barrio, duration still remembering her ethnic roots. Both these characters apply to the classification of the Double Minority in the obvious aspect of existence females, and of course their relationship of being in a minority culture. In Baby of the Family, author Tina Ansa exposes the reader to the perspective of a child living in a dominant culture oriented household, that is trying to latch on to some very all important(predicate) traditional aspects of their minority background. Esperanza in House on Mango Street struggles to find her identity in a society discriminating against her not only as a minority, but her genders hinders her advancement also. The authors of these two minority novels corelate these ideals and explore the hardships these two character face as struggling to become the New American while being classified ultimately as Double Minorities. A a few(prenominal) of the common apects shared by the two novels include the common... ...alls these children experience. These two children take the ideal of the New American and expose it as they find ways to hot in a world in which they walk a fine line between th e two clashing cultures. The Double Minority role plays an important and attempt to overcome the barriers in their own cultures. The cultures ultimately take on a new definition as time progresses, because there is truly not a definite distinction anymore. Works Cited Ansa, Tina McElroy. Baby of the Family. Harcourt Press San Diego, 1989. Blicksilver, Edith. The Ethnic American Woman. Kenall/Hunt Publishing Iowa, 1978. Cecil, Andrew R. The Meaning of the Family in Society. University of Texas Dallas, 1991. Cisneros, Sandra. The House on Mango Street. Vintage Contemporaries New York, 1991. Murray, Alma. Black Perspectives. Scholastic Books New York, 1971.