Why is Mamacita homesick?

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From The House on Mango Street

Sandra Cisneros

Why is Mamacita homesick?

Homesickness usually happens to the immigrants who had been far away from their homeland; especially old people who are living in the past about things those they familiar with. Other major reasons why people are homesick are because they doesn’t feel belong to the countries or places they moved in and they don’t know the language used in the new country. We can infer that Mamacita is homesick according to the story that her behavior that likely in case of the three reasons already been told.

It is such a normal thing that every immigrant is homesick, so does Mamacita who has left her house to live with her son in the third-floor front in the different country. Also the natural behavioral of old people is hard to be changed, unlike the young people like the baby boy who can easily adjust. Based on the story that Mamacita looks and sighs for her pink house in photograph showed that there must be plenty of old beautiful memory about her house which makes her want to go back. Because she is living in the place she doesn’t familiar and she is likely feel uncomfortable to have a new house, new neighbor, and more than that to speak new language. So Mamacita has the normally why she is homesick like another immigrant and worse than that she is too old to adjust.

Mamacita is a Spanish old woman who just migrated to town. She doesn’t belong to the town because she never known this place or anybody. Because she has no friends, she never come out of her room, and the only thing she does every day is to stays in the room for all day and cries by watching her familiar old house in the photograph. Whatever her son did to make the new house looks like the old one as much as possible to please her, it will never be replaced her old house and it will never stop her for missing her house. This is one of the reasons why Mamacita is homesick.

Since Mamacita speaks Spanish for her whole life, it’s such a difficult thing for her to speak English. Unless Mamacita speak English, she can’t communicate with her neighbors and that’s why she’s lonely and keeps thinking of her hometown. According to the story Mamacita sits all day plays Spanish songs and sings all the homesick songs about her country. Mamacita would feel kindly like she wants to speak Spanish with someone, like she did in her old town with her friends, but no one speaks Spanish to her because everybody in town speaks English even her own son. She also tells the baby boy not to speak English. When the baby boy who has begun to talk sings English commercial, it hurts her badly. Mamacita is homesick because of the difference in languages makes she unhappy to live there.

Old Mamacita is such an unhappy woman who lives in the third-floor front who sits all day by the window and plays the Spanish radio show and sings all the homesick songs. Now we knew Mamacita is homesick. All the above can prove that Mamacita is homesick because of three major reasons which are she is an old woman who is an immigrant to that town and misses her past life and her old house like other old people who live in the past, she doesn’t feel belong to the place, and the difference in languages.

Done by: Natnicha Manomaikul (Nat) G.10M