Trapped in the house all day because she's too beautiful
Who is Rafaela?
100
"It's small and red with tight steps in front and windows so small you'd think they were holding their breath."
What is personification?
100
The reason Esperanza seems afraid of Sire
What is she is afraid of her feelings for him because he is her first crush?
100
"Because I am the oldest, my father has told me first, and now it is my turn to feel the others. I will have to explain why we can't play."
What is community loyalty/family responsibility?
100
Hair smells like bread
Who is Mama?
200
Can only say three English phrases
Who is Mamacita?
200
"It is the Mexican records my father plays on Sunday mornings when he is shaving..."
What is metaphor?
200
The thing Esperanza wants to do when she owns her own house
What is let the bums live with her?
200
"Except he won't let her talk on the telephone. And he doesn't let her look out the window. And he doesn't like her friends, so nobody get to visit her unless he is working."
What is Gender Inequality and Oppression?
200
Moves away because the neighborhood is getting bad
Who is Cathy?
300
A punk that Mama and Papa don't like it
Who is Sire?
300
"Two girls raggedy as rats live across the street."
What is simile?
300
The thing that happens to the yellow Cadillac
What is it crashes into a lamp post?
300
"Marin says that if she stays here next year, she's going to get a real job downtown because that's where the best jobs are, since you always get to look beautiful and get to wear nice clothes and can meet someone in the subway who might marry you and take you to live in a big house far away."
What is Escape and Return?
300
Owns the corner store
Who is Mr. Benny?
400
Cries when abuelito dies
Who is Papa?
400
"...makes the bike all wobbly as if the wheels are spaghetti..."
What is simile?
400
The thing Esperanza likes about her sister's name
What is it can be shortened to Nenny?
400
"One day I'll own my own house, but I won't forget who I am or where I came from. Passing bums will ask, Can I come in? I'll offer them the attic, ask them to stay, because I know how it is to be without a house."
What is Community Loyalty?
400
Laughs without anyone to laugh with
Who is Ruthie?
500
Dies and no one notices
Who is Geraldo?
500
"Our laughter for example. Not the shy ice cream bells'..."
What is metaphor?
500
The reason the girls get tired of being beautiful
What is they are getting unwanted attention?
500
"She had been dying such a long time...The kids who wanted to be kids instead of washing dishes and ironing their papa's shirts, and the husband who wanted a wife again.
And then she died, my aunt who listened to my poems."