Friday, December 18, 2009
Armando farinacci
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
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
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?
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Jaime Reveco
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.
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
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
- 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
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

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
Anna Cole

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.
Emma Cipriani
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
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?
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Christopher Hollovary
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
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.
Emerson Schwarz
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)

Matt Sipos

Alicia & I Talking on Edna's Step
Mitchell Bear [win]
- 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
"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
What do you think of this woman?
figurative language: "all at once she bloomed"
B.P.
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
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
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".
John Malone: Four Skinny Trees
Figurative language: "Nenny just sleeps and doesnt appreciate things"
What other symbolism do you see in this chapter?
Sasha Carter
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?
Anna Cole

nicole chioromonte
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
Justin Flynn. Minerva writes poems
"Her poems are sad like a house on fire"(84) simile.
Esperanza
Minerva
Do you think Esperanza feels sorry for her?
Mitch Taylor [nuetral]
- 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
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]
- 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
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.
Amanda Clucas
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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