Characters
The woman who is afraid to assimilate and refuses to learn English.
Who is Mamacita?
The city and state where the novel takes place.
What is Chicago, Illinois?
The person who wrote the book.
What is the author?
Esperanza compares herself to a balloon tied to this.
What is an anchor?
Esperanza does not have $5 to pay for the bike. She gets the $5 by ____________________.
What is "she takes $2 from her sister?"
Who passed away in Esperanza's family?
Who is her grandfather or her Papa's father?
The country Esperanza's family originated from.
What is Mexico?
A comparison using like or as.
What is a simile.
Esperanza explains, "It was my __________________'s name, and now it is mine."
Who is her great-grandmother?
His hair is "like a broom."
Who is Papa?
The name of Esperanza's sister.
What is Nenny?
This is the state where Rachel and Lucy are from.
What is Texas?
A person in a story.
What is a character?
She tells Esperanza, "if you give me five dollars, I'll be your friend forever."
Who is Rachel?
The number of people in Esperanza's family.
What is six?
The names of Esperanza's two brothers.
What are Carlos and Kiki?
This is the name of ONE of the streets where Esperanza lived BEFORE Mango Street.
What Loomis or Keeler or Paulina Street?
True or False: Esperanza is the narrator of the story.
What is true?
She tells Esperanza not to talk to Lucy and Rachel.
Who is Cathy?
Esperanza says that her name means this in Spanish.
What is too many letters?
She is described as the "big one who laughs with all her teeth."
Who is Lucy?
The name of the street that Esperanza lives on.
What is Mango Street?
This book is divided into short descriptions called ___________.
What are vignettes?
This character tells Esperanza that her grandfather has died.
Who is Papa?
When Esperanza and Nenny laugh, Esperanza says it sounds like this:
What is a "pile of dishes breaking."