The House on Mango Street
The affects of an unreliable narrator in The House on Mango Street is it
affects the tone, characterization, and style. There are a lot of examples of those
three affects. Some of those examples are on different chapters of The House on
Mango Street.
Characterization explained in the chapter called " Earl of Tennessee." It is
explained in the way that people say that Earl's wife looks different ways when she
asks different people. Esperanza says in the chapter" We never agree on what she
looks like"(pg.71). Another example of characterization can be found in the chapter
called"Sally." In the chapter Esperanza says"The boys at school think she's
beautiful..."(pg.81) Characterization is explained in this chapter in the way that
Sally wears make-up to school and skirts that she pulls up, but when she goes home
she washes off the make-up and pulls down her skirt so her father won't notice
anything.
Tone is explained in the chapter called"......
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