Esperanza
The translation of the protagonist's name, Esperanza.
What is Hope
Esperanza's little sister
Who is Nenny
When is the first time Esperanza sees Papa cry?
What is when his father dies and she has to tell her siblings that their grandfather has passed away.
The heritage of the author, Sandra Cisneros
What is Latinx
What Esperanza wishes for above all else
What is a house/place of her own
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 sad lady who does not speak English
Who is Mamacita
Name a theme of the novel.
What are: language/communication, relationships, growing up, gender roles, education, culture.
Esperanza's first job
What is Peter Pan's Photo Finishers
Where Esperanza's family 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
Why does Geraldo die?
He is an undocumented immigrant and the hospital does not help him.
When she gets a house of her own, what Esperanza says she would let sleep in her attic
What are bums
What was Esperanza's meal the day she ate in the canteen at school
What is a rice sandwich
A place that becomes a symbol of magic and freedom for the neighborhood children
What is the Monkey Garden
How the girls in Esperanza's neighborhood often try to escape their lives, or escape Mango Street.
What is getting pregnant or married
The body part that Esperanza fixates on as a symbol of her unattractiveness
What are her feet
What the old ladies at Rachel and Lucy's sibling's funeral tell Esperanza she must do.
What is to return to Mango Street to help those who cannot leave
What does Esperanza do to her Aunt Lupe? What happens to her?
What is she makes fun of her illness, and Lupe dies the next day.
Esperanza's friend who writes poetry
Who is Minerva
Two characters that are imprisoned by the men in their lives.
Who are Sally and Rafaela
Naming, nature, body parts, clothing, laughter, houses, the arts, red, pets & pests, bilingual, religion