Location
The street Esperanza and her family live on.
What is Mango Street?
The man who has no last name.
Who is Geraldo?
Esperanza's sister.
Who is Nenny?
What is Esperanza's Mom's hair?
Vignette: Outsiders feel afraid when they are in Esperanza's neighborhood because people of color live there and the outsiders feel it is dangerous.
What is Those Who Don't?
The city in which Esperanza and her family lives.
What is Chicago?
The boy who likes to look at clouds.
Who is Darius?
The mean friend with a lot of cats.
Who is Cathy?
The person Esperanza is named after.
Who is Esperanza's great-grandmother?
Mamacita sits all day by the window and plays Spanish radio and sings homesick songs.
What is No Speak English?
The junkyard that used to be a garden.
What is The Monkey Garden?
The man who danced with Esperanza even though she hated her shoes.
Who is Uncle Nacho?
Who is Lucy and Rachel?
Esperanza, Lucy, and Rachel are singing about this when they are jumping rope.
What are hips?
Esperanza wants to eat at the canteen at school.
What is A Rice Sandwich?
What is her attic?
The man who cried when his dad died.
Who is Papa?
Who is Sally?
These symbolize Esperanza's feeling that she doesn't belong on Mango street yet here she is.
What are the 4 skinny trees?
A man grabs Esperanza's face with both hands and kisses her hard on the mouth and doesn't let go.
What is the First Job?
The store where Esperanza wanted to buy the music box.
What is Gil's Furniture?
The man who hurts his daughter because she is pretty and he is afraid of life for her.
Who is Sally's dad?
She's one smart cookie
Who is Esperanza's mom?
This is the woman who compares herself to Rapunzel because she feels trapped in her own home.
Who is Rafaela?
Esperanza believes she should go to hell when she dies.
What is Born Bad?