Esperanza
The English translation of the protagonist's name, Esperanza.
What is Hope?
Esperanza's little sister
Who is Nenny?
Esperanza's best friends
Who are Rachel and Lucy?
What the Vargas kids don't have.
What is a father?
The point of view this story is being told from
What is first-person?
What Esperanza wishes for above all else
What is a house?
The names of each person in Esperanza's family
What is Papa, Mama, Carlos, Kiki, Esperanza and Nenny?
What Rachel, Lucy, and Esperanza purchased together
What is a bike?
The character who does not speak English
Who is Mamacita?
The city this story is set in.
What is Chicago?
Esperanza's first job
What is Peter Pan's Photo Finishers?
The country Esperanza's family originally is from
What is Mexico?
What hand-me-down items Esperanza and her friends receive from a neighbor
What are high-heeled shoes?
The character who is described as beautiful and too exotic for Mango Street
Who is Sally?
The person in Esperanza's family who dies
Who is her abuelito/grandfather?
When she gets a house of her own, who or what Esperanza says she would let sleep in her attic
What are bums?
What was in Esperanza's sandwich the day she ate in the canteen at school
What is rice?
A place that becomes a symbol of magic and freedom for the neighborhood children
What is the Monkey Garden?
How the females in Esperanza's neighborhood often try to escape their lives, or escape Mango Street.
What is by getting married?
Esperanza says, "Until then, I am a red balloon tied to an anchor..." This is an example of a metaphor or simile? Why?
What is a metaphor?
A metaphor is a comparison of two unlike things saying that one thing IS the other, not LIKE the other as in a simile
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?
Nenny's real name
What is Magdalena?
Esperanza's friend who writes poetry
Who is Minerva?
Two characters that are imprisoned by the men in their lives.
What are Sally and Rafaela?
Esperanza's older friend who values education because she "doesn't want to spend her whole life in a factory or behind a rolling pin"
Who is Alicia?