Esperanza
The translation of the protagonist's name, Esperanza.
¿ Que es HOPE ?
Esperanza's little sister nombre
¿ Quien es Nenny ?
Esperanza's best friends
¿ Quienes son Rachel and Lucy?
What the Vargas kids don't have (habia una viejita que tenia tantos ninos que no sabia que hacer)
¿ Que es un padre ?
The heritage of the author, Sandra Cisneros
¿ Que es Latina/Mexicana ?
What Esperanza wishes for above all else
¿ Que es una casa ?
The names of each child in Esperanza's family
¿ Quienes son Carlos, Kiki, Esperanza and Nenny ?
What Rachel, Lucy, and Esperanza purchased together (nuestra dia bueno)
¿ Que es una bicicleta ?
The character who does not speak English
¿ Que es Mamacita/ Mamasota ?
The city this story is set in.
¿ Que es Chicago ?
Esperanza's first job (un primer empleo)
¿ Que es fotografia Peter Pan ?
Where Esperanza's family is from
¿ Que es Mexico ?
What hand-me-down items Esperanza and her friends receive from a neighbor ("chanclas")
¿ Que son zapatos (tacones) ?
The character who is described as beautiful and too exotic for Mango Street (S_ _ _ _ _)
¿Quien es Sally?
The person in Esperanza's family who dies (Papa que se despierta cansado en la oscuridad)
¿Quien es el abuelito?
When she gets a house of her own, who or what Esperanza says she would let sleep in her attic
¿Que son vagabundos?
What was in Esperanza's sandwich the day she ate in the canteen at school (Un sandwich de...)
¿Que es arroz?
A place that becomes a symbol of magic and freedom for the neighborhood children
¿Que es el jardin de chango?
How the girls in Esperanza's neighborhood often try to escape their lives, or escape Mango Street.
¿Que es casarse?
The body part that Esperanza fixates on as a symbol of her unattractiveness (chanclas)
¿Que son sus pies?
What the old ladies at Rachel and Lucy's sibling's funeral tell Esperanza she must do.
¿Que es regresar a Mango st para ayudar a la gente?
Who Esperanza's mother is referring to when she says "Look at my comadres"
¿Quienes son sus amigas?
Esperanza's friend who writes poetry
¿Quien es Minerva ?
Two characters that are imprisoned by the men in their lives.
¿Quienes son Sally y Rafaela?
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" (...que ve ratones)
¿Quien es Alicia?