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In “The House on Mango Street,” Sandra Cisneros creates a believable scene using different elements of creative writing. Cisneros uses her description of the setting to allow “The House on Mango Street” to have a life of its own. She capitalizes on using the point of view of a young girl to set the theme of the story. She allows the reader to understand the characters without saying too much about any of them. Her story is successful in portraying a situation of devastating poverty in only a few words. The setting of the story is between two houses; the one where the narrator’s family currently resides on Mango, and the house before, on Loomis. Both houses are small, run down, and in low class neighborhoods. Of the house on Mango Street, Cisneros describes it as “small and red with tight little steps . . . and windows so small you’d think they were holding their breath . . . There is no front yard, o