Final Paper: The House on Mango Street, The Benedictine Rule When reading both The House on Mango Street, and The Rule of St. Benedict in English, one notices a common writing style that both works share. In both works, information is being narrated to the reader on a personal level. Stories or rules are told to the reader as if the reader is to follow or participate. The House on Mango Street is the story of a young woman named Esperanza Cordero. Esperanza lives in the Latino part of Chicago and struggles in accepting the life that she is being raised into. She sees that she has an inadequate house and she does not want to stay there all of her life.