Characters
These three women have a habit of sitting by windows.
Who are Rafaela, Esperanza's grandmother, and Mamacita?
This person says the following to Esperanza and her friends in "The Family of Little Feet": "Them are dangerous...You girls too young to be wearing shoes like that. Take them shoes off before I call the cops."
Who is Mr. Benny?
The Vargas's
Compares two things that are not alike, using "like", "as", or "than"
What is a simile?
This dude has two names, his dog has two names, and he broke both arms during the first annual Tarzan Jumping contest.
Who is Meme Ortiz?
Esperanza says that on Mango Street the people are "all _______ all around," and are therefore safe.
What is "brown?"
This is the city where the novel takes place.
What is Chicago?
This is why Cathy moves away from Mango Street.
What is, The neighborhood is "getting bad" (more Latino)?
Gives human characteristics to non-human things.
What is personification?
This male character works very hard and appears to be less controlling of the women in his life than other male characters.
Who is Esperanza's father, Papa?
She says this during a fortune telling: "Ah yes, a home in the heart. I see a home in the heart."
Who is Elenita?
Why did Esperanza's family have to leave the flat on Loomis?
What is because the water pipes broke?
This is why nobody can agree on what Earl's wife looks like
What is, He doesn't have a wife, but he brings a different woman home each night?
Positions two contradictory ideas beside one another to highlight how different they are.
What is juxtaposition?
"...she doesn't hear me. She is too many light-years away. She is in a world we don't belong to anymore." The person Esperanza is talking about.
Who is Nenny?
This is the color of Esperanza's house.
What is red?
A form of a personal narrative written as a short sketch or descriptive scene.
What is the vignette?
She used to be a swimmer. Now she is blind and suffering from an unknown disease. She listens to Esperanza's poetry and encourages her to keep writing.
Who is Aunt Lupe?
Says, "Yes, that's Mexico alright. That's what I was thinking exactly."
Who is Nenny?
To whom the author dedicates the novella.
Who are "the Women/las Mujeres"?
This is suggested since Geraldo has no last name and is his family isn't informed when he died.
What is, That undocumented immigrants are treated like they are invisible and less important?
An attitude, quality, or way of behaving that follows traditional ideas about men being very strong and aggressive.
What is machismo?