The color red seems to show up a lot in the book The house on mango street. It probably stands for mad things or something that was not supposed to happen because it mentions that in every bad thing that Esperanza goes threw it sates the color red. For example Esperanza's house is red and it says in the book that she really hates it because it's not conformable and it always makes her look bad. It does not have any of the things that she wants in house thats why she hates the color red. Another example of this is the high heels that Esperanza was wearing and the guy said that if she kissed him he would give her a dollar and she was thinking about it and then they had to leave.
The color red shows up were ever there is a problem in the book. This starts to be noticeable when the guy rapes her and keeps telling her "i love you Spanish girl" she calls them red clowns and you can tell from there on that she does not like the color red. It also says that when she was with her friend in the monkey park the boys were trying to get a kiss from her friend and she thought that her friend was in trouble but it was a prank that the boys were playing on her. she said that she felt stupid with her brick that she was going to hit the boys with. and when you think about it bricks are red and when she was i trouble mentions it and the color red seems to be the way she describes the things that she going threw sense everything bad happens to her. This book is describing other objects as bad things like a bike or something it uses objects and descriptions as a away of telling you that something is bad or good but the majority of the ideas are bad because Esperanza doesn't really have anything good happening in her life because her family is poor and she doesn't know a lot of things about how kids behave and what people do.
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