Basic Mango Street
This is the color of the house on Mango Street.
What is red?
These are Esperanza’s two younger brothers.
Who are Carlos and Kiki?
The girls get in trouble for walking around the neighborhood in these fancy shoes.
What are high heels?
Esperanza has this many siblings in total.
What is Three?
Esperanza wants a house that is "quiet as" this
what is snow?
This is the name of the main character who tells the story.
Who is Esperanza?
This is Esperanza’s little sister who is "too young" to be her friend.
Who is Nenny?
Esperanza is embarrassed when a nun points to her house and asks, "You live ___?"
What is "there"?
Before moving to Mango Street, the family lived on this floor of an apartment.
What is the third floor?
This is the specific color of the house on Mango Street that Esperanza finds disappointing.
What is red?
This is the city where the story is set.
What is Chicago?
These two sisters are Esperanza’s best friends who live across the street.
Who are Lucy and Rachel?
These are the "four skinny" things Esperanza sees outside her window.
What are trees?
Unlike the new house, Esperanza’s dream house would have this many bathrooms.
What is three?
Esperanza wants a house with these, suggesting she wants a place with a view and light.
What are windows?
This is what Esperanza and her friends buy for five dollars to share.
What is a bike?
This woman is Esperanza’s mother, who gives up her own dreams to raise her kids.
Who is Mama?
Esperanza wants a house with a "pink" one of these out front
What is a flower/garden?
This family member is described as having hair that smells like "warm bread."
Who is Mama?
This is the occupation Esperanza hopes to have one day so she can "say goodbye to Mango Street."
What is a writer?
Esperanza says her name means this in Spanish.
What is Hope?
This neighbor has a lot of cats and says she is related to the Queen of France.
Who is Cathy?
This is the name of the store where the girls buy the bike.
What is Gil’s Furniture/Junk Store?
When describing her family's hair, Esperanza says her father's hair is like this, while her own is "lazy" and never stays in place.
What is "like a broom"?
Esperanza describes her ideal home as a house all to herself, "with my porch and my pillow, my pretty purple" these
What are petunias?