1、 芒果街上的小屋 The House on Mango Street Sandra Cisneros (美)桑德拉希斯内罗丝 Brief introduction Sandra Cisneros was born in 1954 in Chicago to a Spanish-speaking Mexican father and an English-speaking mother of Mexican descent.She was the third child and the only daughter in a family of seven children.Her works C
2、isneros has published two books of poetry,My Wicked Wicked Ways and Loose Woman;A childrens book titled Hair/Pelitos;A collection of stories titled Woman Hollering Creek and Other StoriesThe covers of the bookAbout the book The House on Mango Street received mostly positive reviews when it was publi
3、shed in 1984,and it has sold more than two million copies worldwide.It tells a story about a young girl growing up in the Latino（拉丁美洲的）section of Chicago.Summary The House on Mango Street covers a year in the life of Esperanza,a Mexican-American girl,who is about twelve years old when the novel begi
4、ns.During the year,she moves with her family into a house on Mango Street.The house is a huge improvement from the familys previous apartment,and it is the first home her parents actually own.However,the house is not what Esperanza has dreamed of,because it is run-down（破旧的）and small.The house is in
5、the center of a crowded neighborhood in Chicago,a city where many of the poor areas are racially（种族的）segregated.Esperanza does not have any privacy,and she resolves that she will someday leave Mango Street and have a house all her own.The style of the book The House on Mango Street consists of what
6、Cisneros calls“lazy poems,”（诗小说）vignettes vinjet（简述）that are not quite poems and not quite full stories.But my mothers hair,my mothers hair,like little rosettes,like little candy circles all curly（卷曲的）and pretty because she pinned（别住）it in pincurls all day,sweet to put your nose into when she is hol
7、ding you,holding you and you feel safe,is the warm smell of bread before you bake it,is the smell when she makes room for you on her side of the bed still warm with her skin,and you sleep near her,the rain outside falling and Papa snoring（打鼾）.The snoring,the rain,and Mamas hair that smells like brea
8、d.只有妈妈的头发，妈妈的头发，好像一朵朵小小的玫瑰花结（玫瑰花结是指玫瑰花状的圆形花饰），一枚枚小小的糖果圈儿，全都那么拳曲，那么漂亮，因为她成天给它们上发卷。把鼻子伸进去闻一闻吧，当她搂着你时。当她搂着你时，你觉得那么安全，闻到的气味又那么香甜。是那种待烤的面包暖暖的香味，是那种她给你让出一角被窝时，和着体温散发的芬芳。你睡在她身旁，外面下着雨，爸爸打着鼾。哦，鼾声、雨声，还有妈妈那闻起来像面包的头发。This form also reflects a young girls short attention span（一段时间；跨度）,flitting from one topic to
9、another,never placing too much importance on any one event.Technique of writing 写作手法 1.Personification拟人 Four skinny trees with skinny necks and pointy elbows like mine.四棵细瘦的树儿长着细细的脖颈和尖尖的肘骨，像我的一样。2.iteration重复 But my mothers hair,my mothers hair,like little rosettes.只有妈妈的头发，妈妈的头发，好像一朵朵小小的玫瑰花结 3.Syna
10、esthesia通感 The yellow pillow,the yellow smell,the bottles and spoons.黄色的枕头，黄色的气味，瓶子勺子。(The authors aunt is ill)4.contrast 环境描写（衬托）The high ceilings.The light bulb always burning.高高的天花板，灯泡一直在燃烧。Hard to imagine her legs once strong,the bones hard and parting（分离的）water,clean sharp strokes（动作干净爽利）,not b
11、ent and wrinkled（起皱纹的）like a baby,not drowning under the sticky yellow light.Second-floor rear apartment.The naked light bulb.The high ceilings（天花板）.The light bulb always burning.5.Parallelism排比 One day I believe she was swimming,and the next day she was sick.It might have been the day that gray pho
12、tograph was taken.It might have been the day she was holding cousin Totchy and baby Frank.It might have been the moment she pointed to the camera for the kids to look and they wouldnt.头一天我想她还在游泳，第二天她就病了。可能是拍下那张灰色照片的那天。也可能是她抱着表弟托奇和宝宝弗兰克的那天。也可能是她指着照相机让小孩们看可他们不看的那一刻。6.description（细腻的描写）I cant forget th
13、e smell.Like sticky capsules（胶囊）filled with jelly.我无法忘记那里的气味。就像黏黏的胶囊注满了冻糊糊。My aunt was blind by then.She never saw the dirty dishes in the sink.She couldn“t see the ceilings dusty with flies,the ugly maroon（褐红色的）walls,the bottles and sticky spoons.I cant forget the smell.Like sticky capsules filled
14、with jelly.Thank you！人物角色 Within these very short pieces,Cisneros introduces dozens of characters,some only once or twice,and in this way,the structure of the novel imitates the geography of the barrio.No one person has very much space,either in the barrio or on the page,and the neighborhood is smal
15、l enough that even a young girl can know everyone in it by name.【英语中的修辞英语中的修辞】1.Simile 明喻；明喻；2.Metaphor 隐喻，暗喻；隐喻，暗喻；3.Metonymy 借借喻；喻；4.Synecdoche 提喻；提喻；5.Synaesthesia 通感；通感；6.Personification 拟人；拟人；7.Hyperbole 夸张；夸张；8.Parallelism 排比；排比；9.Euphemism 委婉，婉辞法；委婉，婉辞法；10.Allegory讽喻；讽喻；11.Irony 反语；反语；12.Pun双关；双关；13.Antithesis 对照对照/比比/偶偶
