As you weave your way through the web of this book you will find many themes that all seem to be woven into one...and that one them is brutal loss of innocence. In the book Sandra Cisneros describes for us in poetic form the importance of ones childhood and that how in an instance it can all be taken away from us and all we are left with is our memories, whether they be good or bad.Sandra Cisneros has written this book with women in mind, but men will enjoy it too, in hopes that all those who read it will escape their own Mango Street or Royal Circle or wherever your childhood was spent and innocence lost.