Identity: The House On Mango Street

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  1. Hi, my name is Mighty Natarajan and this is my
  2. identity project.
  3. People's identities can vary in so many different ways, whether
  4. it's through cultural differences or political stances Today.
  5. We will be looking at identity within the autobiography Black
  6. Boy, the book, The House on Mango Street and my
  7. life in the autobiography Black Boy, the author Richard Wright
  8. uses many different ways to specify how his identity differed
  9. from others.
  10. This is a quote from the text that shows you
  11. almost scared us to death.
  12. My mother muttered as she stripped the leaves from a
  13. tree limb to prepare it for my back.
  14. I was lashed so hard and long that I lost
  15. consciousness. I was beaten out of my senses and later
  16. I found myself in my bed screaming, determined to run
  17. away, tussling with my mother and father when they were
  18. trying to keep me still.
  19. This quote shows that his relationship with his family can
  20. have a huge detrimental effect with his on his interactions
  21. with other people.
  22. It could cause them to have trust issues and lack
  23. security within others.
  24. Another example of how Richards identity was shaped is you
  25. little fool.
  26. She said your father is going to beat you for
  27. this, but he told me to kill it.
  28. I said, you shut your mouth.
  29. She grabbed my hand and dragged me to my father's
  30. bedside and told him what I had done.
  31. You know better than that.
  32. My father stormed, you told me to kill him.
  33. I said I told you to drive him away.
  34. He said, you told me to kill him.
  35. I counted positively you get out of my eyes before
  36. I smack you down.
  37. My father bellowed in disgust, then turned over in bed.
  38. This quote shows that he, Richard may fear to have
  39. positive interactions with other people and will show distrust for
  40. other people and fear that they will end up like
  41. his father images that relate to Black Boy are the
  42. Black Boy cover and Richard Wright.
  43. Yeah. In the House on Mango Street.
  44. Author Sandra Cisneros uses many different ways to express how
  45. the characters identities developed.
  46. This quote shows it wasn't as if I didn't want
  47. to work.
  48. I did.
  49. I had even gone to the Social security office the
  50. month before to get my Social Security number.
  51. I needed money.
  52. The catholic high school costs a lot and papa said
  53. nobody went to public school unless he wanted to turn
  54. out bad.
  55. This quote shows that esperanza values her family households, which
  56. factors into her identity.
  57. She values her household so much that she's willing to
  58. be a financial provider for her home.
  59. Even though she's a teenager.
  60. A second quote that resonates with identity is why did
  61. you leave me all alone?
  62. I waited my whole life.
  63. You're a liar.
  64. They all lied.
  65. All the books and magazines, everything that told it wrong.
  66. Only his dirty fingernails against my skin, only his sour
  67. smell. Again, the moon that watched the total World.
  68. The red clowns laughing their thick tongues black.
  69. This quote references the time that esperanza was sexually assaulted,
  70. which can have a huge impact on her identity.
  71. She now feels that every positive aspect she was informed
  72. about on romance was a lot.
  73. This could also have a huge effect on her romantic
  74. relationship she will have in the future and will cause
  75. her to have trust issues.
  76. Images that resonate with the house on Mango Street are
  77. the book cover and the author Sandra.
  78. My identity has been shaped by many, countless factors in
  79. my life, through my ethnicity, my environment, my sexual awakening
  80. and so much more, but a re occurring instance in
  81. my life that really shaped my identity was being told
  82. I was not black enough.
  83. I was raised by my biracial mother.
  84. I was surrounded by her biracial family and her black
  85. family and I was surrounded by my black siblings.
  86. So when people told me that I'm not that black,
  87. especially people that weren't black themselves, I would feel very
  88. confused and flustered with who I am.
  89. But as I grew up, I realized that I don't
  90. need to pick one side of my identity to identify
  91. with because I am a whole another instance that had
  92. a huge impact on my identity was the time I
  93. was molested.
  94. This may feel like a very draining topic, but it
  95. had such a huge impact on who I am today.
  96. I was five years old when it happens, which means
  97. I did not know any better.
  98. And when it happened, I blocked it out of my
  99. brain for seven years.
  100. It came back at the age of 12 and when
  101. I was remembering what happened, I felt ashamed with myself
  102. and I felt disgusted with myself.
  103. I carried shame and guilt on my back for three
  104. years until I finally realized that what had happened was
  105. not my fault.
  106. I learned to let go of my anger towards myself.
  107. I forgave the person that assaulted me and I no
  108. longer feel disgusted with myself.
  109. This event helped me learn to forgive and love myself.
  110. These images resonate with my personality.
  111. This image is of um Black power, Black confidence.
  112. Black love in this image is of self love.
  113. Self identity, Sexual identity.
  114. Thank you so much for watching.