Author Notes
What is The House on Mango Street?
This character gets abused by her father.
Who is Sally?
A jukebox repairman, who smokes fat cigars but no one knows who his wife is.
Who is Earl?
This unlucky individual broke their arms playing in a tree.
Who is Meme (Juan) Ortiz?
A jukebox repairman, who smokes fat cigars but no one knows who his wife is.
Who is Earl?
The House on Mango Street is dedicated to this group of people.
Juan often goes by this nickname.
What is Meme?
Has a boyfriend in Puerto Rico, she smokes cigarettes and is waiting for someone to change her life.
Who is Marin?
This character work Esperanza up in the middle of night, crying.
Who is Papa?
This character has a boyfriend in Puerto Rico, she smokes cigarettes, and she is waiting for someone to change her life.
Who is Marin?
This is where Cisneros was born.
What is Chicago, IL?
This is where Esperanza had her first kiss.
What is at her first job?
A place that’s been abandoned, a place where you can find many things from money to dead mice, where nature has overgrown, and taken over the original building.
What is the Monkey Garden?
This character wants their mother to pack them food so they can eat in the canteen.
Who is Esperanza?
A place that’s been abandoned, a place where you can find many things from money to dead mice, where nature has overgrown, and taken over the original building.
What is the Monkey Garden?
One of the three genres that Cisneros writes.
What are adult fiction, drama, and poetry?
The last name of the child who "dropped from the sky like a sugar donut" to his death.
What is Vargas?
Life lectures while cooking oatmeal? This tough cookie always gives good advice, but never saw out her dreams because she didn’t have nice clothes.
Who is Esperanza’s Mother?
What are mice?
A tough yet sharp cookie that has given advice and insight into her life, and how she could’ve done better if it was not for appearances?
Who is Esperanza’s Mother?
What is child?
This character was arrested for stealing a yellow Cadillac.
Who is Louie's cousin?
Fast cars, trips around the block, and police chases. Regular occurrences with this character, who at least got to say goodbye to his new friends.
Who is Louie’s cousin?
This person left Esperanza at the fair with some devastating results.
This lady has had a difficult time adjusting to the neighborhood and has a strong, unbreakable bond with her heritage, so much so that she starts renouncing her child to not speak English.
Who is Mamacita?