Characters
These two girls live across the street from Esperanza and become her best friends.
Who are Lucy and Rachel?
Describe Cathy from “Cathy Queen of Cats”.
What is "prejudice”?
How does Esperanza feel about the house on Mango Street?
What is Dissatisfied?
This is Esperanza's younger sister.
Who is Nenny?
In both instances in the novel, how does the nun react to where Esperanza’s family lives?
SKIP a team of your choosing.
What is Negatively - she says, “you live there?” and judges her for living in the “poor” neighborhood?
This is the city where the novel takes place.
What is Chicago?
How does poverty play a key role in the novel?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
What is to show how poverty limits or stunts one’s life? (ie, Esperanza’s mother didn’t go to school because she didn’t have nice clothes)
This is the English translation of Esperanza's name.
What is hope?
This male character works very hard and appears to be less controlling of the women in his life than other male characters. He was known for not keeping his promises.
Who is Esperanza's father, Papa?
DOUBLE POINTS:
What is they became friends when Rachel asked Esperanza for $5 to buy a bike and they remained friends throughout the novel out of convenience (they’re neighbors)?
How many people live with Esperanza in the House on Mango street (including herself)?
What is six (6)?
What do Esperanza, Rachel and Lucy do to imitate grown-ups?
What is wear high heels?
What is Direct Characterization vs. Indirect Characterization?
DOUBLE POINTS:
Direct characterization explicitly tells the reader what the character is like (example; Jacob Scott is hilarious).
Indirect characterization implies what the character is like by how the character speaks, thinks, effects others, acts, and looks (STEAL), (example; Mecate Marsh always comes to class with a smile on her face. She helps her classmates with their assignments. Her classmates feel comfortable around her.)
This character owned the building; her brother sold her other building against her mother’s wishes.
Who is Edna?
What does Esperanza value MOST in her life?
What is her “independence” and/or a house of her own?
What is an example of one parenting style from the House on Mango Street?
Take 100 points from a team of your choosing.
What is Authoritarian? (ie Sally’s father)
How old is Esperanza in The House on Mango Street?
What is 8, 12, & 15?
Which of the following is NOT a topic in the novel The House on Mango Street: Poverty, Race, Friendship, Heroism?
What is in heroism?
This is the character that sells Avon and wants a man to save her.
Who is Marin?
Think back to Marin and Alicia. What do they have in common? How are they different?
Take 100 points away from an opponent.
Marin and Alicia are close in age (17-19), and they both live on Mango Street. Marin wants a man to save her from her life, but Alicia is going to college to improve her life.
How does gender play a key role in this novel?
SKIP another player’s turn of your choosing.
Esperanza sees from the very beginning that men and woman live in “separate worlds”, and that the men often have it easier than the women. In their community, men dominate and women are treated as inferior. Esperanza seeks to challenge that in her own life by being independent.
What are the chapters called in The House on Mango Street?
What is a vignette?