Diving Deeper
What does Esperanza's family value?
What is family?
What is true about the fancy car Esperanza rides in?
What is it was stolen?
What type of figurative language is: "But my mother's hair, my mother's hair, like rosettes, like candy circles..."
What is a simile?
What religion is Esperanza?
What is Catholic?
How does Esperanza feel about her father?
What is she loves him deeply?
What do most young girls in Esperanza’s community see as the key to a better life?
What is a man?
Why does Cathy, Queen of Cats, want to move away from Mango Street?
What is she (her family) doesn’t want to live by Mexican Americans?
What type of figurative language is: The boys at school think she’s beautiful because her hair is shiny black like raven feathers and when she laughs, she flicks her hair back like a satin shawl over her shoulders and laughs.
What is a simile?
What adjective best describes how Esperanza and her family feel about the house on Mango street?
a. Excited
b. angry
c. disapointed
d. hopeful
What is disappointed?
Is HOM told from multiple points of view or a single one?
What is a single evolving character's POV?
What would Esperanza would say her environment lacks?
a. beauty and joy
b. freedom and independence
c. hope and love
d. wealth and opportunity
What is beauty and joy?
How does Esperanza feel she and Nenny are similar?
What is their laughter shows that they have the same thoughts?
What type of figurative language is: The little wooden door that has wedged shut the dark for so long opens with a sigh and lets out a breath of mold and dampness.
What is personification?
How can Esperanza best be described at the beginning of the novel compared to at the end of the novel? (MUST HAVE BOTH ANSWERS)
What is innocent at the beginning and determined/independent at the end?
Who encourages Esperanza to get an education?
Who is her mother?
All brown all around, we are safe. But watch us drive into a neighborhood of another color and our knees go shakity-shake and our car windows get rolled up tight and our eyes look straight. Yeah. That is how it goes.
What is the tone of this passage?
a.Indignant b. Sentimental
c. Subjective d. Contemplative
What is contemplative?
What does this statement tell us about Esperanza and Sally's relationship: But when I got there Sally said go home. Those boys said leave us alone. I felt stupid with my brick. They all looked at me as if I was the one that was crazy and made me feel ashamed?
What is that Sally doesn't care about Esperanza?
What type of figurative language is it when Esperanza describes her name as: It is the Mexican records my father plays on Sunday mornings when he is shaving.
What is a metaphor?
What is the purpose of describing all of Esperanza's family by their hair?
What is to convey how Esperanza feels about her family?
What is the purpose of referring to Ruthie as “Edna’s Ruthie?” (DOUBLE POINTS!!)
What is to reveal Ruthie's personality, that she's childlike?
What is true about the men in the neighborhood?
a. Many of them seem to hold a “power” over the women in their lives.
b. Many of them are independent and encourage the women in their life to be the same.
c. Many of them are hard working and eager to live a good family life.
d. Many of them are working to go back to Mexico.
What is many of them seem to hold a “power” over the women in their lives?
How does the description of the individuals on Mango Street contribute to the theme of the novel?
a. The individuals symbolize how Esperanza has gained her hope.
b. The individuals and their stories reflect the environment on Mango Street.
What is the individuals and their stories reflect the environment on Mango Street?
What TWO types of figurative language are present here: She is the color of a bar of naphtha soap, she is like the little brown piece left at the end of a wash"
What is imagery and simile?
Where does Esperanza get her first job? Why does she get one?
What is Peter Pan Photo Finishers and to help pay for private Catholic school?
When Esperanza compares herself to Nenny, what quality does she believe Nenny has that she DOES NOT have?
What is beauty?