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
This girl was beat by her father for being too beautiful
Sally
100
Author of the novel
Sandra Cisneros
200
What Esperanza wishes for above all else
What is a house
200
Name 1 of Esperanza's brothers
Carlos & Kiki
200
What Rachel, Lucy, and Esperanza purchased together
What is a bike
200
What causes Mamacita to cry?
Her son sings the words to the Pepsi commercial and learns English before her
200
The city this story is set in.
What is Chicago
300
Esperanza's first job
What is Peter Pan's Photo Finishers
300
Country 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
This girl is from Puerto Rico and is considered too troublesome by her aunt
Marin
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
What do the girls in Esperanza's neighborhood often try to escape their lives, or escape Mango Street?
Get married
400
The body part that Esperanza fixates on as a symbol of her unattractiveness
What is her feet
500
What is Esperanza's last name?
Cordero
500
Esperanza's mother did this when she was younger
Dropped out of school
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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