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Who is telling the story?
Ezperanza
What does the house on mango street represent for Esperanza?
Ezperanzas dreams
Who is Mr. Cordero?
Ezperanzas dad
Who is Esprenzas first crush?
Sire
Living in a rundown house leads to Esperanza feeling what?
Esperanza feeling shameful and not happy with her house and the quality of life living there
Were is house of Mango Street located
Chicago
What does Ezperanza want to escape the most ?
Mango street where she lives
Who are the 2 Mexican American sisters who live across the street ?
Rachel and Lucy Ezpereranzas freinds
In the being of the book Esperanza went from a insecure , ashamed child to a ...
Confident young women who embraced her identity towards the end
What happens early in the book when Esperanza is in school?
She gets discriminated against when the nuns at her Catholic school refuse to believe she lives next to the school and they make her feel humiliated and ashamed.
What does Ezperanzas name mean?
her name means hope in Spanish. but it also means sadness.
Why does Esperanza not like Mango Street?
Because she hates everything about her house and how everything is cramped in and the quality of life living there as well as people down talk upon mango street to her
Who is referred to Mama?
Espreranzas Mom
Who helps Esperanza be a women?
Alica
Who passed away in Esperanzas life?
Aunt Lupe who was the only person who actually listens to Esperanzas poems and encourage her to write, this cuased esperanza to feel very sad and hopless
Who marries a older man before 8th grade?
Sally, this shows what type of absurd things are happening living there
What does Esperanza Picture as a good life?
Esperanzas explains a good life is a big house with a big front yard with a huge driveway and two floors.
Who is Nenny?
Esperanzas younger sister
What does Esperanza go through in the book that ties into her innocence
Her childhood innocence is lost
What happens at Esperanza's job with the old man?
The old man forcibly kissed her.
Whats the quality of life at mango street?
Its poverty ridden and its not a good reputation to live there because the people are poor and get mad fun of it.
What did Esperanza wanto to do with her Life?
Esperanza wanted to live a better life then the people living on mango street.
Who is Marin?
A neighbor and friend of Ezperanza thats waiting for a man to change her life
What does Esperanza feel at the end of the story, vs , the being of the story?
A connection to the community to mango street
What happened in the chapter the Red Clowns?
Esperanza got attacked and sexually assaulted by a group of boys at a carnival while waiting for his friend Sally.