Answer: As Esperanza loses her childhood innocence, she is not welcome in the Monkey Garden, just like Adam and Eve are not welcome in the Garden of Eden.
Explanation:
The House on Mango Street is a 1983 novel by Sandra Cisneros. The story follows the life of Esperanza, a twelve-year-old Mexican-American girl, who moves into a house on Mango Street with her family.
In the novel, when a family with a pet monkey moves away, the children take over their garden. The Monkey Garden is a place where Esperanza loses her childhood innocence, just like Adam and Eve did in the Garden of Eden. As she grows up, she experiences all the hardships that come with it. Esperanza is too old to play with younger children - her friends of her age go out and do not play. So does her friend Sally. Esperanza thus feels that she is not welcome in the garden anymore, as she has lost her innocent ideals. Similarly, Adam and Eve felt they did not belong to the Garden of Eden anymore, and were eventually forced to flee.
