Characters
Locations
The House on Mango Street
Read Between the Lines
Literary Elements
100
The name of Esperanza's younger sister.
Who is Nenny?
100
The name of the street where Esperanza lives.
What is Mango Street?
100
The reason Esperanza's family had to leave their flat and move to Mango Street.
What is the water pipes broke?
100
The reason Esperanza tells readers about her family members' hair.
What is to show their personalities?
100
The point of view from which Esperanza tells her story.
What is first person point of view?
200
The cat lady.
Who is Cathy?
200
Where Esperanza will give homes to the bums.
What is her attic?
200
This is the color of Esperanza's new house.
What is red?
200
The reason Cathy's family moves out of the neighborhood.
What is there are too many poor families like Esperanza's moving there?
200
The kinds of chapters featured in The House on Mango Street.
What are vignettes?
300
The woman who shares poetry with Esperanza.
Who is Minerva?
300
The place in "A Rice Sandwich" where Esperanza wishes she could eat.
What is the canteen?
300
The number of washrooms in Esperanza's new house.
What is one?
300
Why does Esperanza admire Meme?
What is he has two names?
300
The main problem Esperanza faces.
What is she feels she does not belong in her new neighborhood?
400
This is something special for Alicia.
What is going to college?
400
The place where Darius sees God early in the story.
What is the clouds?
400
The number of bedrooms in Esperanza's new house.
What is three?
400
This is what Esperanza wonders about Geraldo.
What is no one knows much about him?
400
The climax of the story.
What is when Esperanza is assaulted?
500
These three women feel confined to their homes.
Who are Mamacita, Sally, Rafaela, Minerva, or Esperanza's mom?
500
The place where Esperanza lived before she moved to Mango Street.
What is Loomis or Keeler?
500
These are the kinds of flowers Esperanza wants on the porch of her new house.
What are petunias?
500
The reason Geraldo dies in the hospital.
What is he is an illegal immigrant?
500
The resolution of the story.
What is Esperanza's decision to move away from Mango Street?
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