Plot Details
Geraldo dies in this way.
What is a hit and run by a car?
The author's attitude toward a certain topic.
What is their tone?
This character dances under the streetlight, by herself, “waiting for a car to stop, a star to fall, someone to change her life”; seeks her escape from poverty through marriage
Who is Marin?
This character cries when her son sings a Pepsi commercial because she does not want to be in America.
Who is Mamacita?
“They grow up and they grow down and grab the earth with their hairy toes and bite the sky with violent teeth and never quit their anger. This is how they keep.”
What is personification?
This is what Tito's mother does when Esperanza tells her about the kids kissing in the garden.
What is nothing?
OR
What is, continues smoking and ironing?
Two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect.
What is juxtaposition?
This character has two names and owns a dog with two names.
Meme Ortiz
Esperanza’s poor companions who “smell like a broom,” and welcome Esperanza without judgment
Who are Rachel and Lucy?
The figurative language in the quote: “Today we are Cinderella because our feet fit exactly, and we laugh at Rachel’s one foot with a girl’s grey sock and a lady’s high heel.”
What is allusion?
This is the Princess that the girls feel like in "The Family of Little Feet" bc their "feet fit exactly"
Who is Cinderella?
A character who contrasts with the protagonist to highlight or differentiate certain qualities of the protagonist.
What is a FOIL?
This character is an adult woman whose mental disorder keeps her trapped but fosters a closer friendship to the children of the neighborhood.
Edna's Ruthie (or just "Ruthie")
This character moves away from Mango Street because “people like [Esperanza] keep moving in”; lies and says she is related to the queen of France
Who is Cathy?
This symbol is often seen in chapters about growing up or sexual awakening?
What are shoes?
When the brain routes sensory information through multiple unrelated senses, causing one to experience more than one sense simultaneously.
What is synesthesia?
This character is described as “too beautiful to look at”; a prisoner in her marriage, literally and figuratively
Who is Rafaela?
This symbol is often used to demonstrate a woman being trapped and forced to look at a word she cannot actively participate in
What are windows?
What the old ladies at Rachel and Lucy's sibling's funeral tell Esperanza she must do.
What is return to Mango Street to help those who cannot leave?
The quality of being open to more than one interpretation
What is ambiguity?
Esperanza's friend who writes poetry, trapped in an abusive marriage
Who is Minerva?
What is identity?
(Also humanity, citizenship)