Esperanza, the following episode

   In the final four vignettes of the House on Mango Street, Sandra shows Esperanza's hope to leave Mango street and possibly returning for the ones she "left behind". In the final four vignettes, Esperanza encounters visitors of the house who seemed to possess some uniqueness in them. The third to last of the four vignettes, Alicia points to Esperanza's house, she is too ashamed to admit she lives there.In the second to last of the four vignettes, Esperanza dreams of a house on her own, with her own independence and privacy. The last and final vignette, Esperanza believes she can break free from the gloomy house on Mango Street and come back for the ones she left behind, who cannot leave on their own.
   In these final vignettes, visitors viewed the house and asked Esperanza to make a wish, "Yes, make a wish. What do you want? Anything? I said. Well, why not? I closed my eyes...Along silence. When you leave you must remember always to come back, she said."(pg 104.) The visitors can predict Esperanza's wish was to leave after viewing the house. They can tell Esperanza wants to leave and shows this by telling her to come back when she does. These final vignettes show how much Esperanza wants to leave her shameful house. "You live right here, 4006 Mango, Alicia says and points to the house I am ashamed of. No, this isn't my house i say... I don't belong."(pg 106) This shows how strong Esperanza's feelings are to break free from this Mango Street house because she never wants to look at it nor come from it. This house is viewed to her as not a real house. Esperanza begins to vision her new house, "A house all my own. With my porch and my pillow, my pretty purple petunias."(pg 108) She has always wanted these visions to become true with her own privacy. In her future, she will live in her own house by herself raising flowers. This vision of a private house makes it seem as if she wants to live alone without anyone to poke at her. The wish, visions and shamefulness toward the house all lead up to her wanting to leave. When she finally leaves, she may become a storyteller or writer. She explains she likes to tell stories and with the life she had, she would love to. Her future of storytelling comes from the life she had moving from house to house and landing on a sad Many Street house. I do not think she will come back for the ones she left behind because she says "I don't ever want to come from here...but me I never had a house.."(pg 107) From this quote, she doesn't see her house as a house nor does she ever want to go back to it. By going back to the house, she will have to come from it.
   The last four vignettes express Esperanza's shamefulness toward her "house" on Mango Street and visions and wishes to finally leave and possibly get a storytelling related job in the future.