It consists of 44 short stories, one of which tells a story about a person, an event, a dream, several clouds, several trees and several relationships. The language is clear as running water, dotted with scattered rhymes and novel metaphors, such as a long song, which rhymes with each other and connects with each other, bringing together a clear world and a variety of miscellaneous lives.
All the stories are attributed to a narrative center: Espe Lanza, a girl living in Mango Street, and a poor Latino community. Born with sympathy and beauty for others' pain, she looked at the world around her with clear eyes and told her growth, vicissitudes, the beauty and hardship of life, her young aspirations and dreams, her dream of owning her own house, pursuing herself, being free and helping others in words.
Mango gives people a seemingly simple feeling in many aspects, but it is actually invisible. It writes poems in simple and daily children's language, and writes down the sadness of life, but at the same time it gives people an upward and hopeful feeling. Stylistically speaking, its short titles are difficult to classify because of its smart temperament. They are novels with precious words and meaningful poems. People can only define it in some fresh formats, such as "poetry novel" and bildungsroman. As far as the cohesion of literary tradition and the reflection of cultural background are concerned, this thin little book should not be underestimated. From the theme and style of the big place, the things sung and the feelings expressed, to the naming of characters and the coincidence of details in the small place, the author is very attentive. The praise of nature's spiritual soothing and purifying power in articles such as Clouds and Trees reminds people of Wordsworth, Espe Lanza (Hope), Guadalupe (Virgin of Mexico), Darius (pretentious Persian Emperor), Minerva (God of Wisdom), Three Sisters (Luna) and so on. Cathy the Queen Cat and A House of My Own express their respect to the predecessors through the coincidence of titles and details, and also extend the connotation of the works. This book won the National Book Award of the United States in 1985 and was included in the authoritative Norton Selected Works of American Literature in 1989. In 2004, Harold, the most famous western literary critic? Bloom wrote and directed books for him, which are in the same series as more than ten handed down classics such as Hamlet and Scarlet Letter.
My own thought is: I don't understand. I saw the introduction and said it was good, but I didn't know what to say when I went to the bookstore. And most of them are in English (my English is poor), so little content is not cheap to sell, so I didn't buy it.