Esperanza
Family
Friends
Mango Street
Miscellaneous
100

The translation of the protagonist's name, Esperanza.

What is Hope

100
Esperanza's little sister
What is Nenny
100
Esperanza's best friends
What is Rachel and Lucy
100
What the Vargas kids don't have.
What is a father
100
The heritage of the author, Sandra Cisneros
What is Latina
500
When she gets a house of her own, who or what Esperanza says she would let sleep in her attic
What is bums
500
What was in Esperanza's sandwich the day she ate in the canteen at school
What is rice
500
A place that becomes a symbol of magic and freedom for the neighborhood children
What is the Monkey Garden
500
How the girls in Esperanza's neighborhood often try to escape their lives, or escape Mango Street.
What is getting married
500
The body part that Esperanza fixates on as a symbol of her unattractiveness
What is her feet
1000
Esperanza's first job
What is Peter Pan's Photo Finishers
1000
Where Esperanza's family is from
What is Mexico
1000
What hand-me-down items Esperanza and her friends receive from a neighbor
What is high-heeled shoes
1000
The character who is described as beautiful and too exotic for Mango Street
What is Sally
1000
The person in Esperanza's family who dies
What is abuelito/grandfather
1500
What Esperanza wishes for above all else
What is a house
1500
The names of each person in Esperanza's family
What is Papa, Mama, Carlos, Kiki, Esperanza and Nenny
1500
What Rachel, Lucy, and Esperanza purchased together
What is a bike
1500
The character who does not speak English
What is Mamacita
1500
The city this story is set in.
What is Chicago
2000
What the old ladies at Rachel and Lucy's sibling's funeral tell Esperanza she must do.
What is return to Mango Street to help those who cannot leave
2000
Who Esperanza's mother is referring to when she says "Look at my "comodres"
What is her female friends
2000
Esperanza's friend who writes poetry
What is Minerva
2000
Two characters that are imprisoned by the men in their lives.
What is Sally and Rafaela
2000
Esperanza's older friend who values education because she "doesn't want to spend her whole life in a factory or behind a rolling pin"
What is Alicia
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