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Chapter 14
Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in The House on Mango Street, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Language and Names
Gender and Sexuality
Foreigness and Society
Identity and Autonomy
Dreams and Beauty
Summary
Analysis
Esperanza describes how she loves the sky, and how in her neighborhood there is not enough sky or other beautiful things like butterflies and flowers. One day at school a boy named Darius (whom Esperanza doesn’t like because he torments girls and acts tough) says something Esperanza finds very wise. He points up at a fluffy cloud and says that the cloud is God.
