The meaning of theme to me is the overall idea or moral of a story that the creator of the story tries to express to you yet not in a direct or strait-forward way. In "The House on Mango Street"s case (in my opinion) the central theme seems to be the love of family. The reason I feel this is the main theme of the book is because pretty much every vignette written in the book has something to do with the main characters family. For example, the one vignette that really stuck out to me as being very caring towards her family is the vignette titled, "Hairs". When Esperanza describes each and every family member of hers hair in a detailed and intricate way this for some reason really shows how much she cares and notices things about her family. Like her mother, "but my mothers hair, like little rosettes, like little candy circles all curly and pretty." Another vignette that really seems to show this theme is the vignette called Papa Who Wakes Up Tired In The Night. In this vignette, you really get a sense of how dearly she cares for her father. When one of his parents die he sobs and the way she describes him sobbing shows her affection for him, "my papa, his thick hands and thick shoes, who wakes up tired in the dark, who combs his hair with water, drinks his coffee, and is gone before we wake, today is sitting on my bed.