Literary Terms
What is theme?
What is a topic
Where is Esperanza from?
What is Lomiss Street?
What is the author's name?
Who is Sandra Cisneros?
What is the theme of "The House on Mango Street?"
What is identity?
"I am tired of looking at what we can't have."
What is a dream?
What is symbolism?
What is the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities?
Where does Esperana live now?
Where was the author born?
Where is Chicago, IL?
What is the theme of "My Name"
What is names have POWER?
"When you leave you must remember to come back for the others. A circle, understand?"
What is bettering themselves and coming back to help others?
What is juxtaposition?
What is he fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect?
What does Esparaza mean in Spanish?
What is too many letters? What is hope?
WHat is the author's known style of writing?
What is a Vingette?
What is the theme of "Hips"?
What is innocence with their feelings of maturity?
"She says she in love, but I think she did it to escape."
What is bildungsroman?
What is a novel dealing with one person's formative years or spiritual education?
What is the symbol os Esperanza's 'deep-rooted' culture?
What is her momma's hair?
To whom is The House on Mango Street dedicated?
Who is to the women?
What is the theme of "Marin"?
What is love as power?
"I have begun my own quiet war."
What is Esperanza believes the she has no feminine power of her own, so she decides to play with the different gender roles and take on the manerisms of a man.
What is social commentary?
what is A community is a social structure that shares personal values, cultural values, business goals, attitudes, or a world view/
What is one role of women in Latino society as shown in the novel?
what is American culture women are still considered as inferior beings in a male – dominated society...?
What is one award that the author has won?
What is 2016 PEN Center USA Literary Award?
What are the three themes repeated throughout the end of the novel?
What is
Women’s Unfulfilled Responsibilities to Each Other?
The Struggle for Self-Definition?
Sexuality vs. Autonomy?
"They will not know I have gone away to come back. For the ones I left behind. For the ones who cannot out."
What is Esperanza is stating that she will not leave those she knows behind, but will come back for them to help them escape.