In the novella “The House on Mango Street” by Sandra Cisneros, Cisneros uses a five star quote about the beating of Sally in the entry “What Sally Said” on page ninety-two. During the first paragraph of this entry, Cisneros uses the quote “[Sally’s father] never hits [Sally] hard. She said her mama rubs lard on all the places where it hurts. Then at school she’d say she fell. That’s where all the blue places come from. That’s why her skin is always scarred.” She goes on to say that “A girl that big, a girl who comes in with her pretty face all beaten and black can’t be falling off the stairs.” This quote stands out to me because it expresses how cruel people can be. It is hard for me to understand how somebody who is family, somebody who is suppose to love you, can sit there and beat you like an animal. What amazes me the most is the fact that people know that this girl is getting beaten yet they sit there and do nothing to stop it. How can they sit back and watch an innocent young girl get abused? Most of all, how can the father justify what he’s doing? What kind of a person has the ability to beat somebody that they brought into the world, somebody that they are suppose to love and care for? These are the heart-breaking reasons that made this quote stand out so much to me and I hope that it stands out for others as well.