The House
This house is not the way they told it at all. It's small and red with tight stems in front and windows so small you'd think they were holding their breath."
What is the House on Mango Street.
This is the theme that is supported by this quote:
"Today it (the bike) belongs to all of us."
What is community?
This is what Esperanza's name means in English.
What is HOPE?
These are the sisters that Esperanza befriends.
This is an example of when an author uses like or as to compare to things:
"(the music) is like drops of water. Or like marimbas".
What is a simile?
This is the house that "papa talked about when he held a lottery ticket and mama dreamed up in the stories she told us before we went to bed"
What is the imagined or dream house?
This is the theme that is supported by this quote:
"I have inherited her name, but I don't want to inherit her place by the window."
What is aspiration?
This is what Esperanza selfishly wishes for when she meets the 3 sisters.
What is to leave Mango Street, a new name, a new house
This is the owner of the junk store, who won't sell the music box because it is special to him.
This is when an author or poet repeats the same sound at the beginning of words:
"With my porch and my pillow, and my pretty purple petunias."
What is alliteration?
This is where the family lived before the house on mango street, where the water pipes were broken and the landlord wouldn't fix them.
What is the Loomis Street Flat?
This is the theme that is supported by this quote:
"When you leave you must rememebr to come back for the others. A circle, understand?"
What is community?
This is the name that Esperanza thinks "will do" that is more like the real her.
What is Zeze the X? (partial points for Marita, Lisandra, Alexis, or Cassandra).
This is the person who tells Esperanza to be a "smart cookie" and study hard, unlike her who quit school becuase she didn't have nice clothes.
Who is her mother?
This is an example of when an author gives human characteristics to something no human:
"Windows so small you'd think they were holding their breath."
What is personification.
This is the house that Esperanza will remember most and which does not hold (her) with both arms, but sets her free, and the house to which she belongs but does not belong to.
What is the House on Mango Street?
This is the theme that is supported by this quote:
"All brown all around." "Esperanza... a good good name." "the real me, the one nobosy sees" "In Spanish it means too many letters. It means sadness"
What is Identity/Culture?
This is a way to characterize Esperanza at the beginning of the novel.
What is sad, selfish, etc. ?
This is the person who when Esperanza points out where she lives, says "There" and makes Esperanza realize she aspires to have a nicer home she can be proud of.
Who is the nun?
This is when an author or poet compares two things with like or as:
"Only a house as quiet as snow... clean as paper before a poem."
What is a simile?
This is the vignette where Esperanza describes the house SHE aspires to in detail.
What is Vignetter 8 A House of My Own
This is the theme that is supported by this quote:"They smell like a broom", "Their clothes are crooked and old" and "paint peeling.. You live there?"
What is poverty/privilige?
This is a way to describe Esperanza at the end of the novel.
What is happier, selfless, caring, etc.
"They came with the wind that blows in August" and are described as "one with laughter like tin and one with the eyes of a cat and one with hands like porcelain".
Who are the Three Sisters.
This is when an author or poet compares two things without like or as:
"The way so many women sit their sadness on an elbow" or "When you leave you must come back. A circle understand?"
What is a metaphor?