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
200
What Esperanza wishes for above all else
What is a house
200
The names of each person in Esperanza's family
What is Papa, Mama, Carlos, Kiki, Esperanza and Nenny
200
What Rachel, Lucy, and Esperanza purchased together
What is a bike
200
The character who does not speak English
What is Mamacita
200
The city this story is set in.
What is Chicago
300
Esperanza's first job
What is Peter Pan's Photo Finishers
300
Where Esperanza's family is from
What is Mexico
300
What hand-me-down items Esperanza and her friends receive from a neighbor
What is high-heeled shoes
300
The character who is described as beautiful and too exotic for Mango Street
What is Sally
300
The person in Esperanza's family who dies
What is abuelito/grandfather
400
When she gets a house of her own, who or what Esperanza says she would let sleep in her attic
What is bums
400
What was in Esperanza's sandwich the day she ate in the canteen at school
What is rice
400

A place that becomes a symbol of magic and freedom for the neighborhood children

What is the Monkey Garden

400
How the girls in Esperanza's neighborhood often try to escape their lives, or escape Mango Street.
What is getting married
400
The body part that Esperanza fixates on as a symbol of her unattractiveness
What is her feet
500

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.

500
Who Esperanza's mother is referring to when she says "Look at my "comodres"
What is her female friends
500
Esperanza's friend who writes poetry
What is Minerva
500
Two characters that are imprisoned by the men in their lives.
What is Sally and Rafaela
500
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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