Raising boys and girls

   In the book of a series of vignettes, The House on Mango Street, written by Sandra Cisneros is about a young girl Esperanza Cordero who faces many difficulties in her life as she comes to learn how she can achieve in the future. Written by Sandra Cisneros, Esperanza is raised in Chicago, the Latino rundown neighborhood section. Esperanza had many difficulties and obstacles she needed to overcome in order to pursue her life out of Mango Street.While facing these difficulties, Sandra Cisneros portrays a difference in the way children should be raised based on their gender. In some vignettes, boys are showed to be raised as stronger and more independent. This freedom allows the boys to go outside and do what they want. In some vignettes, as well, girls are showed to be under the grasp of parents without as much freedom. In Sandra Cisneros's view, boys do not have the safety that girls have when they are young and are vulnerable to more trouble. The freedom that boys have allow parents to not worry about them as much, but worry about the girls future. Girls are more worried about and can get into trouble more easily. It is shown raising a girl requires more spy activity and focus on the people around you. On page 41, as Rachel, Lucy, and Esperanza are "tee-tottering" down the corner while men are watching,

"Mr. Benny at the corner grocery puts down his important cigar: Your mother know you got shoes like that?  Who give you those? Nobody. Them are dangerous, he says. You girls too young to be wearing shoes like that. Take them shoes off before i call the cops, but we just run."

 This shows how some people in their neighborhood pay attention to girls more. Depending on how they pay attention, boys with glued eyes and Mr. Benny with criticism of their shoes, girls lean on to be raised with a much harder life. Girls are raised to not have the bad look and are always watched.
  Boys on the other hand have more freedom but are sometimes protected when it comes to interaction with girls in the outside world. Esperanza describes the boy's world as, "They've got plenty to say to me and Nenny inside the house. But outside the house they can't be seen talking to girls."(pg 8) This shows how boys are allowed to talk to their sisters, in the house, but cannot talk to other girls, outside of the house. They can't be seen with girls, meaning the parents are being protective and preventing their boys from having that interaction with other girls.
Thus, the differences between boy and girl vary on the type of protection they receive, some receive more from more people, some receive more from their family.