There are many stages in one's life. At all times people are changing, gaining new ideas, and perspectives on life. I can always remember certain times in my life by a story. This story may have a connection with a best friend, family member or even my favorite pair of shoes but even so I can look back and see how I have changed. There are many different types of change. Children can mature into young adults, a new part of your life may begin with a marriage or even a new arrival, or a profound experience can alter your outlook on life. In the book The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros Esperanza, the main character, is traveling through many changes of her own. Several experiences along the way are exciting, adventurous, and new but of course they are not all positive times in her life. Shoes play a very large roll in showing the reader what stage of life Esperanza is in or capable of. In The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, a collection of stories and vignettes, shoes are used to depict the stage of maturity Esperanza is in throughout the book because they let us see a glimpse of her inner self.
             In the beginning of the story Esperanza is not ready to mature into the next stage of her life and this can be realized through the use of the motif, shoes. Esperanza and her friends are beginning to try-out being a grown up. They put on high heeled dancing shoes that are in an array of colors and strut around for the whole neighborhood to see them but when an old bum offers a dollar to Rachel, Esperanza's friend, to kiss him, being older becomes an unknown world for Esperanza. The shoes show a kind of person she is not ready to be. "Do you want this? And gave us a paper bag with one pair of lemon shoes and one red and one pair of dancing shoes that used to be white but were now pale blue...It's Rachel who learns to walk the best all strutted in those magic high heels...Down to the corner w...