Characters
The man who works nights but has many female visitors Mango Street residents think are his wife
Who is Earl?
The author of the book
Who is Sandra Cisneros?
Rafaela's husband locks her up in their apartment when he plays poker for this reason.
What is because she is so beautiful that he thinks she will run away?
This is an example of what literary device: "My Papa’s hair is like a broom, all up in the air."
What is a simile?
Louie tells everyone to get out of the fancy car he was driving them around in very quickly for this reason.
What is because it was a stolen car?
The man Marin dances with one night who is killed in a hit and run. No one knows his last name.
Who is Geraldo?
The setting of the book, the major city where Mango Street is located.
What is Chicago?
Ruthie is different from the other adults because she likes to do this.
What is play? (also accept, laugh, pretend, be with kids)
This is an example of what literary device: "Until then I am a red balloon, a balloon tied to an anchor."
What is a metaphor?
Nenny wants to buy this in Gil's junk shop.
What is a music box?
The boy who jumped or fell off the roof to his death.
Who is Angel Vargas?
Esperanza's age throughout most of the novel.
What is 13?
Mamacita is most upset when her baby does this.
What is sing along with a Pepsi commercial (in English)?
"There were dizzy bees and bow-tied fruit flies turning somersaults and humming in the air. Sweet sweet peach trees. Thorn roses and thistles and pears. Weeds like so many squinty-eyed stars and brush that made your ankles itch until you washed with soap and water. . . and everywhere the sleepy smell of rotting wood, damp earth, and dusty hollyhocks thick and perfumy like the blue-blond hair of the dead."
What is imagery?
Esperanza refuses to dance at her cousin's baptism because she is embarrassed about these.
What are her shoes?
Esperanza's new friend on Mango Street who has a younger sister Lucy. They buy a bike together.
Who is Rachel.
The meaning of Esperanza's name.
What is hope?
The three sisters at the wake tell Esperanza that she must do this one thing.
What is return to Mango Street to help others?
Name the literary device: "Their strength is secret. They send ferocious roots bereneath the ground. They grow up and they grow down and grab the earth between their hairy toes and bite the sky with violent teeth and never quit their anger."
What is personification?
Esperanza needed to get a job for this reason.
What is to help pay for her Catholic school tuition?
Who is Tito?
Esperanza was named after this person.
Who was her grandmother?
What are visitors who accidentally come into Esperanza's neighborhood so afraid of?
What are the people?
The literary device:
A coming of age story
What is bildungsroman?
What were her clothes?