Quotes
What vignette is this from? "When I got back Sally was pretending to be mad... something about the boys having stolen her keys. Please give them back to me, she said punching the nearest one with soft fist. They were laughing. She was too. It was a joke I didn't get." (Pg. 96)
"The Monkey Garden"
Has tons of different types of cats and thinks the neighborhood is getting bad.
Cathy
Kids jump from one roof of a car to another and pretend they were giant mushrooms.
The Monkey Garden
Esperanza & Nenny =
Siblings
Her husband locks her inside because she's beautiful and she sits by the window slowly getting older.
Rafaela
You have a home, Alicia, and one day you'll go there, to a town you remember, but me I never had a house, not even a photograph...only one I dream of" (pages 106-107)
"Alicia & I Talking on Edna's Steps""
Can change her name when she gets home and she acts like a child.
Nenny
It's a junk store and an old man owns it and it's also dark inside.
Cathy & Esperanza =
Temporary friends
Cramped, in a dark home with too many siblings and cannot write in peace since its too loud.
Esperanza
“The house I belong but do not belong to”(pages 110)
"Mango Says Goodbye Sometimes"
Esperanza meet them in the beginning of the book as well as riding a bike dangerously through the streets.
Rachel and Lucy.
Red house, looks like it got robbed, cramped.
Esperanza's house.
Marin & Geraldo =
Only met once
She quit school even though she was smart because she didn't have any good clothes and she got married.
Esperanza's mom
"She has her husband and her house now, her pillowcases and her plates. She says she is in love, but I think she did it to escape"(pages 101-102)
"Linoleum Roses"
Looks out the window and when she sees children passing by she throws down a bucket and string with money inside and asks them to go buy her some nice papaya juice.
Rafaela
Smoke and drug shops and people smoking and arguing also very narrow road.
Neighborhood
Esperanza & Sally =
Fake friend
Gets homesick and cannot speak English therefore she stayed inside the house and she hates it there because nothings colorful or the same she never wanted to move.
Mamacita
"Four who do not belong here but are here. Four raggedy excuses planted by the city"(pages 74-75)
"Four Skinny Trees"
Abused his own child for the fear of her ending up like his sisters.
Sally's father.
The top of the refrigerator busy with holy candles and a dusty palm Sunday cross.
Elenita's house.
Louie & Marin =
Cousins
She can't act like herself Infront of her father because he thinks its dangerous to be this beautiful and she is abused.
Sally