Prompt #3 (The House on Mango Street)

The book I am reading is The House on Mango Street written by Sandra Cisneros.  It is a novel made up of a lot of short stories.  The first short story I read was titled "The House on Mango Street".  In this story I was introduced to a main character who did not mention her name.  She spoke of her big family with two brothers, a sister, a mom and a dad.  She acts a child with huge dreams.  While most children dream of what they will have later in life, they way this character is portrayed is something different.  She dreams of the house she needs to have and how the house on Mango St. just is not it.  It is inferred that the reason she acts this way is because her parents tell her that they will one day "move into a house, a real house that would be ours for always so we wouldn't have to move each year.  And our house would have running water and pipes that worked. And inside it would have real stairs, not hallway stairs, but stairs like the houses on T.V." (pg 4)  While reading, I have come to realize that this child lives a rocky life full of struggle and a future of a dream that is far from close.  She lives with three other siblings and moves from house to house each year.  These two major parts of her life, a big family and her moving a lot, have really shaped who she is and her thought process.