Everyone can't escape the unique network of culture。 An independent nation also has the corresponding cultural identity, nature is our culture of ethnic and national identity。 

Writing is a kind of creative mental work based on human being。 Each subject has its specific cultural identity。 One is inpidual ethnic cultural identity, which is every one of us after birth flipping on gender, race, domicile of origin such as physiology, natural and cultural properties。 This is fixed basically。 Second is the community cultural identity, mainly refers to the inpidual in a certain social collective thoughts formed in the living environment of world outlook, the outlook on life, aesthetics, religious belief, value orientation and so on。 Third is the national identity。 Mainly refers to the national sense of belonging, national identity, political inclination of recognized by national collective which shared political and cultural attributes。 The last two constructions is related with the family, race of the influence of the cultural environment, school education model, the influence of social groups and so on。 

This thesis intends to discuss more about the construction strategy of national identity。 This thesis endeavors to find two positive strategies used by the author to construct her national identity: the perspective of a child and images。

2。 Literature Review

2。1 Study Abroad

The publication of the house on Mango Street brought Sandra Cisneros honor and award。 Critics and researchers showed great interests in this novel and began to study it from various perspectives。 According to their different focuses, they are categorized in the following groups:

Firstly the book was recognized as an autobiographical novel。 In 1992, Maria Elena De Valdes wrote an article “In Search of identity in Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street”, in which she discussed the close relationship between the protagonist Esperanza and the author Cisneros。 Maria argued that Esperanza must be Cisneros’ herself who was looking into the immigrant life within and without (De Valdes, 1995:25-72)。 Robin Ganz also held the same view in his paper, “Sandra Cisneros: Border Crossings and Beyond” in 1994。 He reveals a lot of background information about Cisneros, believing that the creation of the creation of the protagonist Esperanza, her life experience, her community and her thoughts about the whole world was a reflection of the author’s own life (Ganz, 1994:19-29)。 Doyle (1994) also discussed the autobiographical nature of this novel in his article “Haunting the borderlands: La Llorolna in Sandra Cisneros’ Woman Hollering Creek。”文献综述

Some critics also approach his novel from the perspective of initiation story。 Thomas Magi contended in his article in 1995 that The House on Mango Street was the continuation of two initiation stories, that is, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and The Catcher in the Rye by J。 D。 Salinger (Bloom, 2010: 51)。 

In terms of writing style, Olivares (1987) analyzed in-depth the novel on Mango Street。 Brady (1999) dealt with Cisneros’ narrative skills and how she explored the changing relationship among the characters。 Sanborn (2001) pointed out that, in Cisneros’ writing of the novel, she had cited a poem from Emily Dickinson to inspire the pleasure of escaping from the crucial immigrant community。 Cruz (2001) paid special attention to the “simplicity” characteristic, for Cisneros’ writing was simple in form but profound in meaning。