Places In The House On Mango Street
In The House on Mango Street, the author lived in many different places. One of those places was an apartment on top of a laundromat. It was a very run down place that didn't look good. The paint was peeling off the walls and wooden bars were nailed onto the windows so that the family wouldn't fall out. This was the house she lived in before the one on Mango Street. When Sandra lived in this house, a nun from her school saw her playing outside. The nun had asked her where she lived, and when she told the nun, she seemed surprised and was disrespectful. "You live there? The way she said it made me feel like nothing." The nun didn't really like her house and the way she said it made it obvious. After that, Sandra didn't want to keep living in