Armando farinacci

Characters: esperanza, papa, mr.benny, mama, lois, sire
Figurative languags: she is tinny and pretty and smells like babies skin
Sire has a girlfriend named lois. Esperanza mom says that lois is one of those girls that comes from the allies. She sees her sometimes in Mr.Benny's grocery store. Esperanza sopmetimes sees sire staring at her

armando farinacci

Charecters:Earl,Edna,Tito,Mama,Nenny,Esperanza.
fingurtive language:"the little wooden door that has bin wedged shut the for so long opens with a sigh and lets out a breath of mold and dampness,like books that have bin left out in the rain."
Earl is a jukeboxs repair man that only comes out at nite.he has 2 black dogs that go everywhere with him.his blinds are always closed during the day.no one realy knows who his wife is.

why does esperanza spend so much time learning about Earl?

Grace Pountney

Red Clowns
summary- In this chapter esperanza waited by tilt-a-whirl waiting for sally to get off, and a big guy took sally some where and esperanza was waiting along time for her to come back and was wondering what they were doing. Then a guy took esperanza somewhere and was touching her and saying i love you spanish girl, while esperanza was trying to leave but all she could do was cry.

characters: esperanza, sally, carnival guys

Figurative language: The red clowns laughing there thick tongue laugh.

Question: where do you think sally went?






Linoleum Roses
Summary- Sally gets married to a salesperson, they get married in another state where it is legal to get married before eighth grade. She says she in love. Her husband doesnt let her use the telephone or look out the window, he also doesnt like her friends so they cant come over. When he is at work she is affraid to leave the house so she just doesnt leave, so she looks at all the things they own.

Characters: sally and her husband

Figurative language: The ceiling smooth as wedding cake.

Question: Why does her husband treat her like that?

Jaime Reveco

"Marin"

Marin is a girl who has a boyfriend in Puerto Rico and thinks to get married with him when she goes to meet with him in Puerto Rico. She is older that Esperanza but she likes Marin, Marin "knows a lot of things" she said. Things like that so many boys are thinking of Esperanza or which is the best cream for taking off moustache hair.

"Those who don't"

In this Chapter Esperanza describes some peoples that say things about the neighborhood without know about it, they think that is a bad neighborhood.

Figurative Language:
1) "The boys who do pass by say stupid things like I am in love
with those two green apples you call eyes" (Page 27).
2) "That is how it goes and goes" (Page 28).

Key Characters:
Marin: is a girl who has a boyfriend in Puerto Rico and she wants to get married with him, leaving her actual life.

Questions:

• What does Marin want to do with her boyfriend from Puerto Rico?
• Do you think about the people that say something that they are not sure?

Bennet Podlogar

Esperanza's grandpa (abuelito) died in this chapter.the entire chapter is atalking about, and explaining how her father has to wake up early to go catch a plane to mexico to meet the uncles and aunts. She says that she has never seen her father cry. She says that she just holds him, and doesnt know what she would do without him.

Characters...
Esperanza
Papa
Uncles and Aunts
Abuelito

How come they can afford a plane ticket to mexico, but they can't save up for a house?

Ricky Stebnicki

Summery: In the chapter A Rice Sandwich is about the the kids who get to eat in the canteen during lunch because they either live to far away from home or there mom isn't home during the day. Esperanza want to eat in the canteen because she thinks that the special kids get to eat in the canteen so she wants to eat in the canteen because she want to be special and she also thinks that the name even sounds important. So one day she asked her mom to make her a sandwich and write her a note to eat lunch in the canteen. Her mother didn't like the idea of her doing extra work everyday by packing lunches so Esperanza told her mom that she would pack her own lunch. The next day she goes to sister Superior with the note her mom gave her and sister superior said to Esperanza that she doesn't live far enough away from the school to eat on the canteen. Sister Superior was looking for Esperanza house and pointed out the window to an old rundown looking house and asked Esperanza if that was her house and she said yes even though it wasn't her house. After she talked to sister superior she let Esperanza eat lunch for that day in the canteen. Everyone in the canteen was looking at her because she was crying. She found out that eating lunch in the canteen is nothing special.

Characters: Esperanza, Sister Superior, and Esperanza's Mom.

Question: Why does Esperanze lie about where she lives?

Ricky Stebnicki

Summery: In the chapter The Family of Little Feet it talks about a family that everyone is short and has small feet. The chapter goes into more detail about everyones feet in the family. It also talks about how Esperanza, Lucy, and Rachelle found these pretty high heal shoes. They were walking around the town and they were getting a lot of attention from guys. As they were walking around the town a bum told Rachel that she was pretty and he said if she gives him a kiss he will give her a dollar. After the bum offered Rachel the dollar for the kiss Lucy went over to Rachelle and told her they had to go because if she didn't Rachel would have taken the dollar and kissed him. When they get home Lucy says she is tired of being beautiful so she puts the shoes in a box and hides them under the porch. One day her mom is cleaning the house and she threw away the shoes.

Figurative Language: "grandpas feet were as fat and doughy like thick tamales" pg.39 simile

"the grandmothers feet were as lovely as pink pearls" pg.39 simile

"the baby's feet had ten tiny toes pale and see through like salamanders"pg.39 simile

Main Characters:Esperanza, Rachel, and Lucy.

Questions: Why do you think Mr Benny told the girls to take off the shoes and why are they dangerous?