Personajes
Lugares
Técnicas literarias
Citas del texto
¡Al azar!
100
La mujer que tiene miedo a asimilarse, así que se niega a aprender el inglés.
¿Quién es Mamcita?
100
The city and state where the novel takes place.
What is Chicago, Illinois?
100
Esperanza primarily uses this literary technique to explain how the four skinny trees teach and inspire her to keep on going and surviving.
What is personification?
100
Near the beginning of the novel, Esperanza compares herself to a balloon tied to this.
What is "an anchor?"
100
When Esperanza has her fortune told by Elenita, she is told that some time in her future, she will have this.
What is "a home in the heart?"
200
La chica que trabaja muy duro para educarse, a pesar de la desaprobación de su padre.
¿Quién es Alicia?
200
The country Esperanza's family originally immigrated from.
What is Mexico?
200
The most common reason that an author uses the literary technique, "repetition."
What is for emphasis?
200
Esperanza says that on Mango Street, the people are "all this all around," and are therefore safe.
What is "brown?"
200
The real reason that the Earl of Tennessee's wife looks different to everyone in the neighborhood.
What is because she's actually several different women (prostitutes).
300
El apellido de la familia de Esperanza.
¿Qué es Cordero?
300
Esperanza was sexually assaulted in this location.
What is a carnival (near the "Red Clowns")?
300
The five senses that imagery appeals to, and the one that is most often given that distinction.
What are sight, sound, smell, touch, and taste...sight being most common?
300
The three sisters compare Esperanza's life to this and tell her she must remember this.
What is "a circle" and "to come back for the others?"
300
The most disturbing quality of Edna's daughter, Ruthie, is that she acts like this.
What is a child?
400
Los nombres de los dos hermanos y una hermana de Esperanza.
¿Quiénes son Carlos, Kiki y Nenny?
400
The local hangout for Esperanza's friends, and the closest thing to a playground that the kids have.
What is the Monkey Garden?
400
A phrase Esperanza uses to describe her dream house that uses the literary technique of alliteration.
What is "my Porch, and my Pillow, and my Pretty, Purple Petunias?"
400
Sally says that she got married because she is in love, but Esperanza says she thinks Sally did it for this reason.
What is "to escape?"
400
Esperanza's mother says she quit school because she didn't have this.
What are nice clothes?
500
Al menos tres personajes tienen una ventana como símbolo en sus viñetas respectivas.
¿Quiénes son Rafaela, Sally, Minerva, Mamacita, Esperanza y la bisabuela de Esperanza? (cualquier de las tres)
500
Where Esperanza met the three sisters, and the reason she was there in the first place.
What is Lucy and Rachel's house for their sister's wake.
500
A technique that is meant to show contrast by placing two very opposite situations right next to each other, or happening simultaneously.
What is juxtaposition?
500
Esperanza refuses to go on Sunday drives with her family to see the big houses on the hill, because she says she's tired of looking at this.
What is "what she can't have."
500
The one, single quality possessed by ALL of the trapped women on Mango Street that prevents them from leaving their situations or getting help.
What is FEAR?
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