Quotations from House on Mango Street
“I have inherited her name, but I don’t want to inherit her place by the window” (Chapter 4).
Esperanza
“Oh – ‘Alaiyo.’ I hope you don’t mind. It is what you would call a nickname, I think. It is a Yoruba word. I am a Yoruba” (Hansberry)
Asagai
My Papa’s hair is like a broom, all up in the air
Simile
Palmers Can of Skin Success
Colorism
What short story did Edgar Allen Poe write?
Cask of Amontillado
“I am a red balloon, a balloon tied to an anchor” (Chapter 3).
Esperanza
“Because I hate assimilationist Negroes!” (Hansberry)
Beneatha
Fresh – just fresh as salt, this girl!
Simile
Quilts
Family Inheritance
Who wrote House on Mango Street?
Sandra Cisneros
What matters…is for the boys to see us and for us to see them” (Chapter 11).
Marin
“But they teaching you how to be a man? How to take over and run the world? They teaching you how to run a rubber plantation or a steel mill?” (Hansberry)
Walter
Fortunato’s step was not sure, because of the wine he had been drinking
Personification
Heart Trouble
lack of freedom/dismissal of woman’s problems
Who wrote the story based off her husbands death?
Kate Chopin
“You will always be Esperanza. You will always be Mango Street” (Chapter 41)
Sister with porcelain hands
“No, thank you. I don’t care for beer”
George
Sword
competition to have lighter skin
Who was the New York Born Playwright who wrote A Raisin in The Sun?
Lorraine Hasnberry
A woman’s place is sleeping so she can wake up early with the tortilla star” (Chapter 14).
Alice’s father
Well—that’s the way the crackers crumble.
Ruth
he fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect
Juxtaposition
roquelaure
(a knee-length cloak) suspicion/evil plans
Who is known as the master of gothic writing?
Edgar Allan Poe