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?

mitch taylor

Louie, His Cousin & His Other Cousin

• main characters: Louie,meme,
• Meme Ortiz’s family rents their basement apartment to a Puerto Rican family. The family’s son Louie is a friend of Esperanza’s brother. Louie’s cousin Marin also lives with the family in the basement. Marin is older than Esperanza and wears nylons and Avon makeup, which she also sells in her free time. She sings sassy songs about boyfriends while she baby-sits Louie’s little sisters. One day, another cousin of Louie’s drives up in a beautiful new Cadillac and takes the neighborhood kids for a ride. They go around the block again and again, until they hear sirens. Louie’s cousin orders everyone out and takes off in the car. He doesn’t quite make the turn at the end of the alley, though, and crashes into a streetlight. The cops arrest him.
• " the seats were big and soft like a sofa"
• Question: how did louie`s other cousin get the nice looking car

Papa who wakes up tired in the dark
The entire chapter is Esperanza explaining how her father has to wake up early to catch a plane to mexico to meet his brothers and sisters (esperanzas aunts and uncles) to sort out the funeral of her grandfather. She is saying that she holds him, and does not want to let go. She wouldnt know what to do without him.

Characters...
Esperanza
Papa
Uncles and Aunts
Abuelito

Fig. Language
pg. 56. paragraph 2. The tomb with flowers like spears in a white vase

How is it, they can afford to send Papa to mexico, but they can't afford to save for a house?

Matt Sipos

A House of My Own

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This chapter is a very short simple chapter. It simply describes the house that Esperanza wants to have. One that is all her own with no one else to make a mess or make her angry. She wants aporch and pillow and flowers. All her own books and her own stories just a house to herself.

Figurative Langauge:"Only a housequiet as snow, a space for myself to go, clean as paper before the poem", simile(pg108)

Question: Refering to her house a clean piece of paper before the poem may forshadow what for Esperanza's life?

Scott Balzano

my name

we found out that the narators name is esperanza in english it means hope and in spanish it means two many letters. she was named after her great grandmother. also she talks about how her grandmother had a bad life and was not able to live her life fully because her husband did not let her do anything.

simmaly it is like the number nine

question: why do you think esperaza hates her name so much

Anna Cole

And Some More

One of the longer chapters, And Some More is a story about names. It begins with Esperanza talking of the thirty names for snow Eskimos use. Lucy and Rachel join the conversation switching from fact to fact and topic to topic. As Esperanza starts thinking about Nenny's name and her name, which a previous chapter discusses her dislike for it, she mentions how clouds have names. Epseranza, Lucy, Rachel and Nenny all begin listing off names they've given for the clouds, names that are people names, and the cloud's cousins too. All the while, Nenny is rattling off random names, Rachel and Esperanza are holding a conversation that begins to heat up. Witty insults and quick comebacks stop long enough for all the girls to realize the whole fight was idiotic.

What was the purpose of Nenny listing off names while Rachel and Esperanza are fighting?

Does the chapter end in a way that seems like they are all friends again?

Emma Cipriani

key characters:Elenita, Esperanza, and Ernie.
Figurative language: "Ah, yes a home in the heart. I see a home in the heart. pg. 64

Summary: In this chapter Elenita runs a palm reading and card reading place out of her home. There are many distractions going on between the Bugs Bunny show going on in the living room, and the baby and Ernie. Finally when Elenita begins the reading she shows Esperanza the card, the dark man on the dark horse. This meaning jealousy, there was also a pillar of bees and a mattress of luxury. She also states that Esperanza will go to a wedding soon, and says, "did you lose an anchor of arms, yes, an anchor of arms"? It is very debatable whether or not Elenita was truly a honest cards reader or plam reader.
From the evidence in the chapter do you think Elenita was a true card and palm reader? Why or Why not?

Josh Bobango: Hips

They bring all of the definitions of hips to the table. They joke that women suddenly wake up one day with these bony hips on their bodies, not knowing what to do with them. Rachel thinks they are used to hold babies while cooking, and Lucy thinks they are needed to dance. Nenny says that if you do not get hips, you turn into a man. Everyone laughed at her, but Esperanza feels for her sister even though she is young. Esperanza remembers what Alicia tells her about hips and claims that they are scientifically designed for having babies.

The main characters are Rachel, Lucy, Esperanza, and Nenny.

The figurative language is "Ready and waiting like a new Buick with the keys in the ignition"

Why do you think they described their own hips as they did?

Christopher Hollovary

The chapter that I am doing is Girl's Furniture Bought and Sold. This chapter was very odd and I really don't get the meaning of why it was put in this book. In this chapter we see Esperanza and Nenny go to this junk store were they bought a used refrigerator from here once. The man who owns this store is a black man who has tons of refrigerators and T.V's everywhere. But there was this one item the Nenny saw and asked the man what it was. He said it was a music box and Ezperanza was dissapointed by it at first because she thought it was a pretty box, which would have a ballerina and flowers but it dident. But when he played it Esperanza was very suprised by it and she was amazed by the sound it made. On page 20 she desribed it as "he let go a million moths all over the dusty furniture". Esperanza really liked it but she dident want to seem intersted because she thought it would make her look stupid unlike her sister who really liked it and wanted to buy it but the man said it wasent for sale.

Now what I dont get is why did Esperanza think it would make her look stupid? Dose she really care that much on what people think? i am a win

Scott Balzano

boys and girls

Main characters: Esperanza
Summary: tells how in the neighborhood boys and girls don’t talk to each other. Even though in her house Esperanza talks to her brothers but outside the house they will ignore her so she must talk to her younger sister Nenny but she is too young to be her friend. Esperanza cant wait to have a best friend.

metaphor: until then i am a red balloon,a balloon tied to an anchor

Questions: when esperanza says "i am a red balloon" what do you think this means

Emerson Schwarz

The chapter starts out by Esperanza talks about telling stories and masking stories. She then says she makes a story about her life, how she "trudged up the wooden stairs, her ugly brown shoes talking to the house she never liked." she then starts to re-tell the beginning of the book, which is a little annoying, because it is strange. she ends the book by saying she will one day leave Mango street, only to come back "for the ones I left behind. for the ones who cannot out."

main charters of the chapter: Esperanza

Figurative language: "trudged up the wooden stairs, her ugly brown shoes talking to the house she never liked."(pg 109) "for the ones I left behind. for the ones who cannot out." (pg 110)


Why dose Esperanza want to return to Mango Street after she leaves?

Cameron kit (Axel Faraday)

The Three Sisters

In this "chapter" Lucy and Rachel's baby has died and so the family is having a traditional Viewing and reception at their home. Esperanza is uncomfortable but three old women try to reassure her, The three women look her over and tell her make a wish, of course Esperanza wishes she could leave mango street. After Esperanza makes her wish one of the ladies tells her that if she leaves mango street she must come back and help those she leaves behind, even though this scared her she agreed she would come back one day.

"Why would Esperanza be uncomfortable about where she was? did this chapter make sense?"

"Why would it be hard to explain death to a child?"

Matt Sipos

Alicia & I Talking on Edna's Step

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This chapter starts of with Esperanza, the main character, sitting talking to Alicia, one of her friends. Esperanza begins to talk abotu a purse she once got from Alicia and about how it has Guadalajara stiched onto it. Guadalajara is Alicia's home and this mean something to Esperanza because she feels like she dosen't have a home. Esperanza dosen't consider her house on Mango Street to actually be her home, her home lies in her dreams. Alicia tells Esperanza that she still is part of Mango Street and will come back eventually. Esperanza feels that this street will never get better though and she dosen't want to come back.

Figurative Langauge:"Like it or not you are Mango Street", simile (pg107.)

Question: What do you think Alicia meant by the above simile?

Mitchell Bear [win]

Sally

• Key Characters: Sally
• 2 figuative languages: "She flicks her hair back likea satin shawl over her shoulders and laughs" " Sally is a girl with eyes like egypt and nylons the color of smoke"
• Summary: This chapter is about a pretty girl named Sally. She is so pretty her dad is ashamed of it. Which makes her feel bad, Esperanza wants to be her friend. And Esperanza talks about her dream, not going home and having a house of her own, with no worries.
• 2 Questions: What do u think happened to Sally's father's sisters?

Why is Sally so sad in this chapter?

Justin Flynn. Bums in the attic

THE chapter is about Esperanza talking about her own house on a hill. she thinks the people who have a house on the hill dont have to worrie about city noises and only thing that botherse them is the wind. She thinks the people who live in those houses now are stuck up and wouldnt let people in the house. But one day when she owns a house on the hill shes going to let the bums live in the attic.

"people who live on hills sleep so close to the stars the forget those of us who live too much on earth"(86)

Esperanza
Nenny
Madre

Do you think Esperanza will ever have the house of her dreams?

John Malone:No Speak English

This Chapter is about a New Woman who comes to america from Spain. She "Blossoms" as she is pushed and pulled out of the taxi cab. In other words, she is Obese. she is so large that she cannot get up the stairs to her room. so large that they wonder how she can wear those small, high Stilletos. as the vignette goes on, we see she misses her family. she wishes she could be with her papa. because she "no speak english" she can barely communicate with people because of her lack of english. Esperanza feels for her.

What do you think of this woman?
figurative language: "all at once she bloomed"

B.P.

Carthy Queen of Cats
In this chapter Esperanza meets Cathy. She claims to be the great great grand cousin of the Queen of France. She explains to Esperanze the people who live on Mango street. She tells Esperanza to keep away from the two girls across the street because they are raggedy as rats. Esperanza becomes friends with Cathy but only until next Tuesday, because that is when Cathy is moving, because the neighborhood is going bad. Major characters are Cathy and Esperanza.
Our Good Day
Esperanza talks to the two girls across the street, while Cathy is telling her not to. The two girls ask Esperanza for five dollars, Esperanza asks them to wait a minute and goes to her room to get the money. They buy the bike from Tito, the boy who was selling it. The two girls tell Esperanza their names are Lucy and Rachel. They come up with an agreement on who gets the bike when and can’t decide who gets to ride the bike first, so they decide to ride it together. Lucy is using the pedals, Esperanza is on the seat, and Rachel is on the handel bars, making the bike wobbly like the wheels are spaghetti. Major characters are Esperanza, Lucy, and Rachel.

1. Why does Cathy think the neighborhood is going bad?
2. Whan are reasons for Esperanza helping to buy the bike?

Bennet Podlogar

The First Job
This chapter is about how Esperanza get her first job. She was mildly take aback by the fact that her aunt found it it for her, as she was looking for herself. She works at a picture developement plant. She must wear white gloves, and she chose to wear a navy blue dress. She ate luch in the washroom. Then sat in the caotroom at break. She meets an oriental man, who asks for a birthday kiss, and then tries to make out with her.

Main Character...
Esperanza
Old Chinese Dude
Working Women

I found no figurative, or any other typpe of poetic lanuage. feel free to prove me wrong.

Why with the social akwardness?

Emma Cipriani

Pg. 58- pg. 64
Born Bad
The characters in this chapter include Esperanza, Rachel, Lucy, and Aunt Lupe. In this chapter Esperanza talks about how she was born on an evil day and that she was “born bad”. She blames herself killing her Aunt. Pg. 58 “For ourselves and for each other…because of what we did to Aunt Lupe. Aunt Lupe always encouraged Esperanza’s writing and for her to continue. She explains how her Aunt Lupe was a swimmer and pretty and good to look at. But that was just in the photographs. Then things changed after Aunt Lupe got “sick”, her legs and arms then became limp. Pg. 59, “It could be true she didn’t dive right one day and hurt her spine”. Esperanza then says diseases have no eyes, they pick whoever they want, and it’s a random choice. The Rachel, Lucy and Esperanza are playing a game similar to charades, and they imitate many people in the town. They then decided to imitate Aunt Lupe, throwing their heads back and having their arms and legs being useless, dangling like the dead. The guilt that was shown in the beginning of the chapter leads back to this. Shortly after they imitated her, she then died. The figurative language in the chapter is on pg. 58 " the bones gone limp as worms".

How do you think Aunt Lupe got "sick"?

John Malone: Four Skinny Trees

This Chapter on the outside seems like just a chapter about four Trees that are Alone. But if you look at this chapter Metaphoricaly, you see that the just like the trees are skinny tall and alone, Esperanza Feels the same. "from our room you can hear them, but Nenny just sleeps and doesnt appreciate these things" (pg. 74) the bold words explain how Esperanza feels just like these trees, you can see and hear them. but no one really cares about them. The more you read this book, you understand that Esperanza feels like no one truly cares about her.

Figurative language: "Nenny just sleeps and doesnt appreciate things"
What other symbolism do you see in this chapter?

Sasha Carter

The House On Mango Street

Key Characters: Esperznza, Nenny, Mommy, Daddy, Nun, and other family members.
Figuarative Language: "The way she said it made me feel LIKE nothing." (pg.5)

I am writing a summary on the chapter THE HOUSE ON MANGO STREET. In this chapter Eserpanza is talking about how they lived on Loomis on the third floor of an apartment building. Before then, they had moved three other time but the other times she does not remember. She thinks one more always comes up when they move. Right now they have six people in her family when they moved to the house on Mango Street. Esperanza and her mom are so excited at how they don't have to worry about things that happen around them and why they have to be quiet because other people bang on there ceiling to be quiet. She had said that a nun from her school came by and was shocked at where she lived. When Esperanza would go to bed, her mom would tell her stories at what the house would look like and how life would be great. Later on when they found the house on Mango, it was not the house they were expecting. It was small and it seemed congested. The whole family has to share a bedroom with someone and Esperanza was a little let down at what the house looked like.

Why was the nun so surpirsed when Esperzanza told her where she lived?

Hairs

Key Characters: Esperanzas Family

Figuarative Language: "And Kiki, who is the youngest, has hair LIKE fur." (pg. 6)

The summary I am writing about HAIRS. Esperanza is talking about the type of hair her family has. Her fathers hair is like a broom in the air, her hair is lazy and just sits there and doesn't do anything, Carlo her brother is thick and straight, her sister Nenny has slick hair where it slips out of your hands when you hold it, Kiki her youngest sister has soft hair like fur, and her mothers hair is curly and apparently smells like bread. Esperanza feels like she's at home when her mom holds her safely. At night at times she sleeps beside her mother with her hair that smells like bread and her dad is snoring when it's raining.

Why do you think Esperanza wanted to tell us about her families hair and what it was like?

Anna Cole

Darius & the Clouds

Darius and the clouds is a short vignette, nearly three small paragraphs. It's main idea is about a classmate of Esperanza's whose name is Darius. She describes him as a quite but daring child, "who doesn't like school; who is sometimes stupid and mostly a fool." Although, one day he says something wise, and pointed up into the sky. As his finger stretches to the clouds he tells his classmates that one cloud, next to the popcorn one, is God.

Why would a quiet, ecentric young boy like Darius say and do something so forward?

What did he mean by his statement?

nicole chioromonte

There was an old woman she had so many children she didn't know what to do.

Rosa Vargas has a lot of kids and she can't handle them or take care of them very well. They run around and get into trouble and she can't stop them. They are completely undisciplined and they respect no one, adult or child. The kids have no father their mom can't control them in the least by herself. They're destructive and get hurt often and one day Angel Vargas "learned to fly" and dropped down to the ground and no one so much as looked up.

What could be done to help Rosa?
characters
Rosa vargas
her children
Angel Vargas
Efren
Refugia
Mr.benny


Alicia who sees mice.
Alicia sees little mice. Her father syas close your eyes and they'll go away. And that womans place is in the kitchen. Her mother is dead and she is the oldest, who has to get up and make lunch for the younger ones and her father. She is good and studies hard and takes care of her family. but she is afraid of nothing but "four-legged fur and fathers."

What are her father's thoughts on where a woman belongs and what she should do?

characters
Alicia
Alicia's father
Esperanza

Josh Bobango

Chanclas (pg. 46)

Esperanza sees her mom dressed in a nice new dress because there going to a distant cousins wedding. Esperanza is very embarrassed because she has a totally new outfit but still has her plain, ordinary brown shoes. She is also constantly checking her feet because of the largeness of them. While at the wedding, everyone starts to dance. Esperanza decides that she doesn't want to dance but her Uncle Nacho decides to pull her aside and talk to her letting her know that theres nothing wrong with having big feet. The key characters of this chapter, are Esperanza, Mama, and Uncle Nacho. An example of figurative language is "my feet swell big and heavy like plungers" which is a simile.

Why do you think Esperanza is so self-conscious about her big shoes when no one even noticed?

The House On Mango Street

Justin Flynn. Minerva writes poems

THE chaper is abourt a girl whos name is Minerva, shes a little bit older than Esperanza, she has two kids and a husband who leaft her. Minervas mother takes care of the kids and she prays that her family has enough eat every night. She also wrights poem severy night. Esperanza and Minerva read eachothers poems, her are sad and somthign wrong.

"Her poems are sad like a house on fire"(84) simile.

Esperanza
Minerva


Do you think Esperanza feels sorry for her?

Mitch Taylor [nuetral]

Meme Ortiz'

• Key Characters: Juan
• Figurative Language: "the dog is big like a man in a dog suit"
• Summary:Meme, whose real name is Juan, and his dog, who has both English and Spanish names, move into Cathy’s house after her family leaves the neighborhood. Esperanza describes the house, a wooden house Cathy’s father built. It has a tree in the backyard that is taller than Esperanza’s house. When the kids had a Tarzan jumping contest, Meme jumped out of the tree and broke both his arms.
• What was meme`s real name?

Christopher Hollovary

The chapter I am summerizing is Laughter. This is a wierd chapter chapter in the book but has good points. It is showing how Espranza is comparing her laugh and her sister's to the laughs of Rachel and Lucy. On page 17 Espranza is describing her laugh as "a sudden and suprised like a phile of dishes breaking". With this she is explaning how different her laugh is compared to other girls laugh, and she describes this on page 17 as "shy ice cream bells gigle". Esperanza is putting good points and is saying that you can alot by someones laugh. She is saying that people in the same family will have a very similer laugh and that how everyones laugh is different. And some people that have a more wild laugh will find things more funny compared to others who dont. An example is on page 18 Esperanza makes a little joke by commonting on a house that looked like Mexico, but Rachel and Lucy were a lillitle bit confused by it but Nenny got the joke.

What I dont get is, when Nenny comments on the house she says "Yes, that's Mexico all right. Thats what i was thinking exactly." but I think she is saying it in a sorta depressing tone of voice. Dose anyone agree with this or am i just being stupid?

Mitch Bear [win]

Rafaela who Drinks Coconut and Papaya Juice on Tuesdays

• Key Characters:Rafaela
• 2 Figurative Language:"Rafaela leans out the window and leans on her elbow and dreams her hair is like Repunzel's" " But sweet sweet like the island"
• Summary: This chapter is about a woman on Esperanzas street, who is prisoned by her husband. She wished to dance, and be free like a real woman. She pays Esperanza and others to go to the store and buy her drinks, usually coconut or papaya juice. Rafaela wishes to be with some one else and to be a free woman.
• 2 Questions: Why does Rafaela's huband imprison her?

Why doesnt she escape?

Alisa Sapanaro

What Sally Said
In this chapter Esperanza tells a story about Sally. She tells Esperanza that he doesnt hit her hard. She tells everyone its from the playground. They say that Sallys dad doesnt mean to hit her he just does it because his sisters ran away and he doesnt want her to. Then Sally went to Espy's house and her dad came over and told her it wouldnt happen again. When Sally got caught talking to a boy it did happen again.

characters- Sally is the main point in this chapter and partcially Sallys dad.

figurative language-1."He hit her with his hands just like a dog." 2."He just forgot he was her father between the buckle and the belt."

questions-1. Do you think its right for Sallys dad to hit her because she was talking to a boy? 2. Why would her dad be crying at the door?




The Monkey Garden
During this chapter Esperanza and her friends Sally and Tito and some other boys play in this place they call the monkey garden. They pretend its an imagenary place and they all run around and have fun. One time Tito took Sallys keys and the only way she could get them back was if she kissed all the boys. Sally agreed to it. Esperanza wasnt happy about it so she ran up and told Sallys mom but her mom didnt really care.

characters-The main characters in this chapter are Sally, Esperanza, and Tito and some of Tito's friends.

figurative language-1."Weeds like so many squinty eyed stars." 2. "My eyes melt into the ground like 2 black snails."

questions-1. What do you think of the Monkey Garden that the kids play in? 2. Was it right for Sallys mom not to care about the boys?

Brittany Maruna.

Beautiful & Cruel page 88-89 , House on Mango Street.

Esperanza thinks that she is an ugly daughter and that she is the one that nobody comes for. Her sister Nenny says that she doesn't want to wait her whole life for a husband to come and get her. Her mom says that when Esperanza grows up, she will become a women. Esperanza, Nenny, Minerva, and Esperanza's mother are the main characters. Esperanza believes that "she has begun her own quiet war".

Why do you think Esperanza is so worried about having a husband when she grows up?

A Smart Cookie page 90-91, House on Mango Street.

Esperanza's mom thinks that she could have been somebody but instead she has stayed in the same city her whole life. Her mom can speak two languages and sing and opera. She knows how to fix a T.V. but she can't figure out which subway to take to get downtown. Esperanza's mom tells Esperanza that she needs to be able to take care of herself and not rely on a man. Her mom then tells Esperanza how that when she was younger, she dropped out of school because she didn't have nice clothes. Esperanza's mom doesn't want Esperanza to be like she was. Key characters are Esperanza and her Mom.

Do you think that Esperanza will follow her mom's advice? Why or why not?

Amanda Clucas

Geraldo no last name

Marin met this boy named Geraldo at a dance. She said that he was young and pretty and that he worked in a restaurant too. Marin was one of the people to see him last alive. He was in a hit- and- run accident and died. Marin met him that one night just to dance and have some fun. She felt so bad when she found out that he had died. Geraldo was also very poor, to poor to afford the hospital and police bills.

Key characters- The main characters are Marin and Geraldo.

Figurative language- Saturday shirt, Metaphor for party shirt. (Pg.65)

Question- Do you think that the hit- and -run accident was on purpose to kill Geraldo?




Edna's Ruthie

Ruthie liked to spend alot of time by herself she really doesn't go out much. She takes her dog for walks and laughs by herself. She is Edna's daughter, Edna is the lady who owns the big apartments next door to them. Edna is always screaming at somebody and telling them they need to move away. Ruthie also lives in this apartment but Edna can't throw her out because that's her daughter.

Key Characters- The key characters in this chapter are Ruthie and Edna.

Figurative language- The moon is beautiful like a balloon, simile (Pg.68)

Question- Why do you think Edna kicks people out of the apartment?

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