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The Astronut Show was a syndicated animated TV series produced by the Terrytoons animation studio. It first aired on August 23, 1965. Each episode included an episode of Astronut and Luno, the Flying Horse, plus another cartoon from the Terrytoons stable.

Astronut first appeared on the Deputy Dawg series. He was a friendly alien who frequently got into mischief on Earth. He had a human friend called Oscar Mild.

The series was directed by Art Bartsch, Bob Kuwahara, Connie Rasinski, and David Tendlar. The writers were Larz Bourne, Glan Heish, Tom Morrison, and Bob Ogle. Voices were provided by Dayton Allen and Bob McFadden.

Stations

Alphabetized by city.

WHAE-TV / Channel 46• Atlanta, Georgia
WSBK-TV / Channel 38• Boston, Massachusetts
WSTV-TV / Channel 9• Steubenville, Ohio

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+'''The Astronut Show''' was a syndicated animated TV series produced by the [[Terrytoons]] animation studio.  It first aired on [[August 23]], [[1965]].  Each episode included an episode of ''Astronut'' and ''[[Luno The White Stallion|Luno, the Flying Horse]]'', plus another cartoon from the Terrytoons stable.
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-{{Infobox Book  | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels or Wikipedia:WikiProject_Books -->
-| name           = The House on Mango Street
-| image = [[Image:MangoStreet.jpg|150px]]
-| image_caption  = 1984 edition
-| author         = [[Sandra Cisneros]]
-| cover_artist   = illustration: Nivia Gonzalez<br/>design: Lorraine Louie<br/>lettering: Henry Sene Yee
-| country        = United States
-| language       = English
-| genre          = Coming-of-age story, novella
-| publisher      = Arte Público Press (1st edition), Vintage Contemporaries (2nd edition)
-| pub_date       = 1984 (1st edition), April 1991 (2nd edition)
-| media_types    = Print (Hardcover, Paperback, & library binding), audio cassette, and audio CD
-| pages          = 110 (2nd edition, paperback)
-| isbn           = ISBN 0679734775 (2nd edition, paperback)
-}}
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-'''''The House on Mango Street''''' is a coming-of-age [[novella]] by Mexican-American writer [[Sandra Cisneros]], published in 1984. It deals with a young [[Hispanic|Latina]] girl, Esperanza Cordero, growing up in the [[Chicago]] [[Chicano]] ghetto. Esperanza is determined to "say goodbye" to her impoverished Latino neighborhood. Not all readers may be able to identify with Esperanza's world in which everyone in the large family sleeps in one room, men prey on young girls, and husbands and fathers mistreat their children.<ref>http://www.commonsensemedia.org/book-reviews/House-Mango-Street.html</ref> Major themes include her quest for a better life and the importance of her promise to come back for "the ones I left behind."
+Astronut first appeared on the ''[[Deputy Dawg]]'' series.  He was a friendly alien who frequently got into mischief on Earth. He had a human friend called Oscar Mild.
-==Author==
-Sandra Cisneros, a Mexican-American author, is the third child and only daughter in a family of seven children. She was born in 1953 in [[Chicago, Illinois|Chicago]]. Throughout Cisneros's childhood she would move between Mexico City and Chicago, never allowing her much time to get settled in any place. Her loneliness from not having sisters or friends drove her to bury herself in books.<ref>http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/cisneros/bio.htm</ref>
+The series was directed by [[Art Bartsch]], [[Bob Kuwahara]], [[Connie Rasinski]], and [[David Tendlar]].  The writers were [[Larz Bourne]], [[Glan Heish]], [[Tom Morrison]], and [[Bob Ogle]].  Voices were provided by [[Dayton Allen]] and [[Bob McFadden]].
-In high school she wrote poetry and was the literary magazine editor, but, according to Cisneros, she didn't really start writing until her first creative writing class in college in 1974. After that it took a while to find her own voice. She explains, "I rejected what was at hand and emulated the voices of the poets I admired in books: big male voices like [[James Wright]] and [[Richard Hugo]] and [[Theodore Roethke]], all wrong for me."<ref>http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/cisneros_sandra.html</ref>
+==Stations==
-Cisneros then realized that she needed to write what she knew, and adopted a writing style that was purposely opposite that of her classmates. Five years after receiving her [[Master of Arts|MA]] from the writing program at the [[University of Iowa]], she returned to [[Loyola University]] in Chicago, where she had previously earned a [[Bachelor of Arts|BA]] in English, to work as an administrative assistant. Prior to this job, she worked in the Chicano [[barrio]] in Chicago teaching to high school dropouts. Through these jobs, she gained more experience with the problems of young Latinos.<ref>http://www.sandracisneros.com/bio.php</ref>
+Alphabetized by city.
-Among her honors are fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the MacArthur Foundation. She has taught many colleges and universities, including the University of California, University of Michigan, and the University of New Mexico. She lives in San Antonio, Texas.<ref>http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/747</ref>
+*[[WGCL-TV|WHAE-TV]] / Channel 46• [[Atlanta, Georgia]]
-== Synopsis ==
+*[[WSBK-TV]] / Channel 38• [[Boston, Massachusetts]]
+*[[WTOV|WSTV-TV]] / Channel 9• [[Steubenville, Ohio]]
+==External links==
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-The plot is about Esperanza Cordero and her struggles growing up on Mango Street in a poor Latino neighborhood in Chicago.
+* {{Bcdb title|19726}}
-The title is in reference to the house that Esperanza and her family move into at the beginning of the novella.
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-== Plot ==
+[[Category:1960s American animated television series]]
+[[Category:1965 television series debuts]]
-The set of vignettes charts her life as Esperanza matures during the year, both physically and emotionally. She begins to write as a way of expressing herself and as a way to escape the suffocating effect of the neighborhood. The novella also includes the stories of many of Esperanza’s neighbors, giving a full picture of the neighborhood and showing the many influences surrounding her. Esperanza quickly befriends Lucy and Rachel, two Chicana girls who live across the street. Lucy, Rachel, Esperanza, and Esperanza’s little sister, Nenny, have many adventures in the small space of their neighborhood.
+[[Category:Terrytoons]]
-Esperanza later slips into puberty and begins to like it when boys watch her dance. Esperanza's newfound views lead her to become friends with Sally, a girl her age who uses boys as an escape from her abusive father. Esperanza is not completely comfortable with Sally’s sexuality. Their friendship is compromised when Sally ditches Esperanza for a boy at a carnival. As a result Esperanza is sexually assaulted by a group of boys at the carnival. Earlier at her first job, an elderly Asian man orders her to kiss him. Esperanza’s traumatic experiences and observations of the women in her neighborhood cement her desire to escape Mango Street. She later realizes that she will never fully be able to leave Mango Street behind. She vows that after she leaves she will return to help the people she has left behind.
-== Main Characters in "The House on Mango Street" ==
-* '''Esperanza Cordero''' is a Chicana (Mexican-American girl) about twelve years old. She is the main character and narrator. Esperanza naively wishes to get out of Mango Street and get a home of her own. Although her family has not always lived in this house, it is probably the most important place she has lived as it represents her heritage and upbringing{{Fact|date=October 2008}}. Esperanza matures emotionally and sexually during the year that makes up ''The House on Mango Street''. Her realization of her writing ability gives her a constructive way to escape from Mango Street. By the end of the book, Esperanza has somewhat "escaped" from her home by becoming more detached from it by retreating into her own private world.
-* '''Sally''' is a girl whom Esperanza Cordero describes as having "eyes like Egypt" and hair that is "shiny black like raven feathers" (Cisneros 81). Her father is extremely religious but quite abusive. Esperanza notes that Sally has come to school multiple times with bruises on her pretty face, despite her mother's best efforts to cover it up. She was friends with Cheryl until Cheryl "made her ear bleed" (82) in an attempt to pierce it for Cheryl. Sally's father dislikes her talking to boys and beats her when he discovers her doing that. Sally finds safety and comfort in sexual exploits that make Esperanza uncomfortable. Sally is responsible for what would seem Esperanza's rape in the chapter titled "Red Clowns"{{Clarifyme|date=October 2008}}. As an escape, Sally later marries a marshmallow salesman in another state before she reaches eighteen (101). Esperanza speculates that Sally's excessively controlling husband is physically and verbally abusive. She infers this from the fact that in anger her husband "broke the door where his foot went through" and also won't let her talk to her other friends.
-* '''Nenny''' is Esperanza's sister.Esperanza looks up to Nenny  as a good person.
-* '''Rachel''' was Esperanza's friend when Esperanza agrees to give in 5 bucks to buy a bike for Rachel, Lucy and Esperanza to share. Also is sister to Lucy.
-* '''Lucy''' was Esperanza's friend. Sister is Rachel.
-==Format==
-''The House on Mango Street'' is made up of [[vignettes]] that are not quite poems and not quite full stories. Esperanza narrates these vignettes in [[first-person]] [[present tense]], focusing on her day-to-day activities but sometimes narrating sections that are just a series of observations. The vignettes can be as short as two or three paragraphs long and sometimes contain internal [[rhymes]]. In ''The Family of Little Feet'' for example, Esperanza says:
-''"Their arms were little, and their hands were little, and their height was not tall, and their feet very small"'' (39).
-Each vignette can stand as an independent mini-story. The vignettes don't connect to one another, although they often mention characters introduced in earlier sections. The conflicts and problems in these short stories are never fully resolved, just as the futures of people in the neighborhood are often uncertain. The overall [[tone]] is earnest and intimate, with very little distance between the reader and the narrator. At times the tone also varies from pessimistic to hopeful, as Esperanza herself sometimes expresses her jaded views on life:
-''"I knew then I had to have a house. A real house. The house on Mango Street isn't it. For the time being, Mama says. Temporary, says Papa. But I know how those things go"'' (5).
-==Major themes==
-===Concept of Home===
-Esperanza regards the house on Mango Street as simply a house she lives in and not her home. When she was younger and constantly on the move from apartment to apartment her parents promised her a real home with a green yard, real stairs, and running water with pipes that worked. She dislikes the house on Mango Street because its sad appearance and cramped quarters are completely contrary to the idealistic home she always pictured. She describes the house as:
-''"...small and red with tight steps in front and windows so small you'd think they were holding their breath. Bricks are crumbling in places, and the front door is so swollen you have to push hard to get in" '' (4).
-Esperanza is ashamed to point out her house to strangers and retains the notion that one day she will have a real home.
-Each vignette has a separate theme which is left for the reader to uncover.
-==Reception==
-''The House on Mango Street'' has sold over two million copies{{Fact|date=October 2008}} since its initial publication in 1984 and is still selling strongly. Acclaimed by critics{{Who|date=October 2008}}, it has been [[translated]] in various languages{{Vague|date=October 2008}} and become required reading in middle schools, high schools, and universities across the country{{which}}{{Vague|date=October 2008}}.
-==Awards and nominations==
-*The [[American Book Award]] from the [[Before Columbus Foundation]] (1985)
-==Publication history==
-, The United States, Arte Público Press ISBN 0934770204, Pub date 1 January 1984, paperback
-, The United States, Vintage Contemporaries ISBN 0679734775, Pub date 3 April 1991, paperback
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-[[Category:1984 novels]]
-[[Category:Hispanic American literature]]
-[[es:La Casa en Mango Street]]
-[[zh:芒果街上的小屋]]