Characters
This is the main character in the story.
Who is Esperanza?
This is a light fixture that hangs from the ceiling.
What is a chandelier?
This is the difference in color between the house on Mango Street and the family's dream house.
This is the way Esperanza would be happier.
What is: if she had a different name or identity.
This is the minimum number of sentences in a paragraph.
What is 5?
This is the person who says, "There? You live there?"
Who is the nun?
This is a public place to wash your clothes.
What is the laundromat?
This is the difference in the yard between the house on Mango Street and the family's dream house.
What is: the house on Mango Street has no yard but the dream house does?
This is the reason Esperanza's great-grandmother's romantic life was sad.
What is: her great-grandfather married her against her will (by throwing a sack over her head) and keeping her from fulfililng her potential; she was forced to be a housewife
This is the first and most important sentence in a paragraph.
What is the topic sentence?
This is what Esperanza wishes her name was.
What is Maritza, Zeze the X?
This word describes something fierce or violent.
What is ferocious?
"Four who do not belong here but are here" refers to these four __________.
What are trees (four skinny elms)?
This is what the topic sentence does.
WHat is: answer the question or prompt?
This is who Esperanza inherited her name from.
Who is her great-grandmother?
This means to receive something after someone's death.
What is inherit?
These are three aspects of the family's dream house.
What is: white, big yard, three bathrooms, enough bedrooms so no one has to share?
This is how Esperanza feels she is like the trees outside her house.
What is: like the trees, she does not belong; she is an outcast?
This is the name of the last sentence in a paragraph.
What is: the concluding sentence?
This is the reason why Esperanza does not like her name.
What is: because it is too long, there is no nickname?
This is another word to say give someone their name.
What is baptize?
This is the meaning of the line "But I know how these things go."
What is: that the house will not be temporary and that she has been disappointed by her parents before.
This is the meaning of the phrase, "like so many women who sit their sadness on an elbow."
This transition phrase often comes before evidence in the body of the paragraph.
WHat is: For example...?