Characters
The main character of The House on Mango Street.
Who is Esperanza?
The street that Esperanza lives on in the book.
What is Mango?
The reason Rafaela does not leave the house.
What is her husband thinks she will run away because she is too beautiful?
The first street that Esperanza remembers living on.
What is Paulina?
Esperanza's younger sister who always seems to be somewhere else.
The reason that Esperanza moves to Mango Street.
What is the pipes broke in their apartment?
The reason Esperanza meets the three old ladies who smell like cinnamon.
What is Lucy and Rachel's baby sister dies?
Esperanza and her friends buy this for $5 to share among them.
What is a bike?
The mama of the man across the street who does not want to speak English.
Who is Mamacita?
This is a major theme of the first part of The House on Mango Street.
What is family?
What is living on Mango Street?
What is being a kid?
What is community?
The place where Esperanza and her friends would go because it was far enough away from their mothers.
What is the Monkey Garden?
The food that Esperanza brought when she got to stay at school for lunch.
Who is Sally?
This is a major theme of the second part of The House on Mango Street.
What is growing up?
What is becoming more like an adult?
What is the in between years of being a kid and an adult?
The only ones who understand Esperanza.
What are the four skinny trees?
The fancy shoes that Esperanza and her friends wear walking down Mango Street are red, yellow, and this color.
What is white that have turned pale blue?
Tells Esperanza that, "you are Mango Street, and one day you'll come back too."
Who is Alicia?
This is a major theme of the last third of the book.
What is becoming an adult?
What is moving away?
What is losing your innocence?
The reason Sally acts the way she does.
What is to love?
This is the color of the fancy car that Esperanza gets to ride in but then has to exit because the driver is being chased by the police.
What is yellow?