Chelsea Heppert

And Some More

Characters: Rachel, Lucy, Nenny, Esperanza.

Fugurative Language: "There are clouds that look like big fields of sheep."(pg.36)

Summary: Rachel, Lucy, Nenny and Esperanza have a discussion about snow, clouds and all the different names poeple have for it. As they continue to talk it kind of becomes a game to them so they keep nameing names. The chapter becomes a jumbled mess of names and conversations. Each girl insults one another and it turns into a big fight.They all get mad at eachother and They stop nameing things instead they insult eachother and their families.

Question: Why do you think they eneded up getting into the fight?

Chelsea Heppert

Darius and the Clouds

Characters: Darius

Figurative langauge: "You can fall asleep and wake up drunk on sky..."(pg.33)

Summary: This chapter focus's alot on this boy named darius, he's a boy that everyone thinks is stupid, and he doesn't like school and chases girls around with a stick. Darius one day pointed up to the sky and starts to talk about the clouds. When he speaks of the clouds he talks with a lot of wisdom. While he talks about the clouds he points to a random one and says it to be god. When he says a cloud is god he puts it so simple that anyone can understand what he means.

Question: Why do you think Darius's claim about god shows wisdom?

Mike Woodard †

Chapter #24... Elenita, Cards, Palm, Water...

Esperanza talks of a woman that cleans her house of messes made by her husband and children. And Esperanza goes to this woman’s house. She fills a glass with hot water and places it on the table. This woman that Esperanza calls “Witch Woman”, is a fortune teller. She starts looking into her future and Esperanza asks if she sees a home. The woman replies that she does but it’s a home in her heart. Esperanza is then disappointed and the woman tells her that she should come back next week.

Key Characters: Esperanza and Elenita

Figurative Language: Simile- “All her pretty furniture made out of red fur like the teddy bears they give away at carnivals.

Question: Why do you think she chose teddy bears to compare her furniture to?

Heidi Rumpf

Sally(pg. 81-83)

Key Characters:
Sally
Sally's Father
Cheryl

Summary:
Sally is the kind of girl who is very pretty and all the boys at school like her. But her father doesn't approve of her being so beautiful. Their family is very strict with their religion, and they are not suppose to dance. Sally always has to go striaght home right after school, and noone really understands why. Sally wishes she lived in a house when you have no nieghbors that can see right through your kitchen window, no motorcycles or cars to hear. But Sally just dreams, and dreams.

Figurative Language:
"Sally is the girlwith eyes like Egypt and nylons the color of smoke." (pg. 81)
"You lean against the schoolyard fence alone with your eyes closed as if no one was watching," (pg. 82)



Question:
Does it seem like Sally believes in her religion?

Erica Green

Hairs

The girl talks about everybodys hair in her family. She tells us how hers is lazy. The girl gets into detail with her moms hair. She really likes her moms hair. She thinks of her mothers hair as confty it reminds her of home. She thinks it smells like bread.

Question: why does her moms hair remind her of home?

Characters: Papa, Her, Carlos, Nenny and kikki.

Figurative:"but my mothers hair, my mothers hair, like little rosettes" page.6

Joe Petti

Gil's Furniture Bought and Sold

Key Characters are : Esperanza, Nenny, The Black Guy who owns the Store.

Summary: This chapter is all about Esperanza's trip to the junk store. She once bought a refrigerator from him once, and people sell things to this man that owns the store. The junk store is really a run down old looking store. The man that owns the store never turns the lights on because it wastes electricity, unless someone is buying something from him. This store looks basically like useless stuff scattered all around the store. Also the aisles in this store are very small.

Figureative Luangage

1.) Simile - It's like all of a sudden he let go a million moths all over the dusty furniture and swan-neck shadow and in our bones. pg. 20

2.) Simile - It's like drops of water. pg. 20

Question

Why doesn't the old man want to sell the box in the window?

Luke Baumgardner

"A Rice Sandwich"
Esperanza sees a bunch of kids going to eat in the canteen. Esperanza thinks the canteen is where all the cool kids eat lunch. Really the canteen is where kids who's homes are to far away or their parents arnt home go to eat lunch, instead of their house. Esperanza then asks her mother if she could write a note to go eat at the canteen. Her mother then complains to Esperanza about writing a note for a few reasons, but eventually signs it and gives it to Esperanza. Esperanza at lunch the next day goes to the canteen but the teacher does not reconize her and tells her to go see the principle. The principle then tells Esperanza that her house isn't that far away and a few other excuses to try and get Esperanza to go eat lunch at home. Esperanza thought the teacher was yelling at her and she started to cry. The teacher then felt bad for Esperanza and let her eat lunch at the canteen.

Key Characters: Esperanza


Figurative Language:None


Question: Why does Esperanza want to eat at the canteen?

Cindy White

Linoleum Roses (pgs. 101-102)


Summary:
She marries an older salesman takes her to another statek, where it is legal to marry girls in 8th grade, before the end of the year. Esperanza believes Sally married to leave her house. Sally says she’s happy because she gets money, but her husband becomes violent and angry. Her husband doesn’t let her go out, talk on the phone, see her friends, or look out the window. Sally spends her days sitting at home and looking at the things around her.

Characters:
Sally
A Salesman

Figurative Language:
"...the cealing smooth as a wedding cake."
^Simile

Question:
Why wouldn't sallys hudand let her leave or talk on the phone?

Nicolina Albino, Edna's Ruthie

Summery: ruthie lives with her mother Edna. she is the only grown up eperanza knows that likes to play. She alwasy taker dogs for walks and will go to the store with eperanza and her friends, but would rarley go inside with them. Ruthie says she has a house and a husband back in the city. The kids don't understand why she lives on mango street if she has a home in the city.
Chatacters: Edna, Ruthie, kids
Figurative laungage: "The moon is beautiful like a balloon" Similie page 68

Question: Why does Ruthie live with her mom?

Heidi Rumpf

Rafaela Who Drinks Coconut & Papaya Juice on Tuesdays.


Key Characters:
Rafaela
Husband

Summary:
This chapter is about how Rafaela is this woman who is a very beautiful woman but doesn't get much respect from her husband. "Gets locked indoors because her husband is afraid Rafaela will run away since she is too beautiful to look at."(pg. 79) This shows that even her husband can't resist her and can't risk losing her. Rafaela always leans out the window and just dreams of what her life would be like if she could life it. She can't even go to the store, she has to ask the kids to get her drinks. And she always seems to get either coconut or Papaya juice, and it's always on Tuesdays. She also wishes that there were sweeter drinks, ones that make you feel like your on an island.


Figurative Language:
"wishes there were sweeter drinks, not bitter like an empty room,"(pg. 80)
",but sweet sweet like the island,"(pg. 80)


Questions:
Do you think Rafaela is like Esperanzas grandmother?

Why do you think Rafaelas husband is scared for her to even leave the house?

Joe Petti

Laughter

Key Characters : Nenny, Esperanza, Rachel, and Lucy.

In the chapter Laughter Esperanza is comparing her laugh to her sisters laugh. Also she is saying what she thinks about Mexican houses. This was a really short chapter only about 2 paragraphs. Esperanza related her own laughter to her sisters, and makes fun of her friends how their lips look like Popsicles. She also says that her and he sisters laugh is not the shy ice-cream bells' giggle, but all of a sudden like a pile of dishes breaking.

2 Examples of Figurative Language

1.) Simile - "but all of a sudden like a pile of dishes breaking."
2.) Personification- "not the shy ice cream bells' giggle of Rachel and Lucy's family"

Question
What is Esperanza trying to tell us in this chapter?

Joe Ziccardi Pg. 86-87

"Bums In The Attic"

Esperanza wants a nice suburban house with a garden, like the ones where her father works. On the weekends, the family visits these houses and dreams about moving there. Esperanza has stopped going with her family. She also would like to live in one of those houses, but she is tired of looking at what she can't have. She imagines that when she owns one of these houses in the future, she will not forget where she is from. When bums pass her house, she will invite them in and give them a place to live in her attic, because she knows, she says, "how it is to be without a house." When people think that the squeaking in the attic is rats, she would say that it is bums.

Key Character: Esperanza

Figurative Language: Floorboards will squeak upstairs.

Question: Do you think Esperanza is sympathetic to homeless people?

Noah Stone

Chapter Summary: Darius and The Clouds

In the begining of this chapter Eaperanza describes how there is not enough happiness around where she lives. Then she begins describing a boy from school named Darius who is and fool and dislikes school and how today he said something wise. Today he said " You all see that cloud, that fat one there? that one nexts to the one that looks like pop corn. That one there. Thats god." This quote struck Esperanze deaply and emotionally.

Key Characters

1.) Darius

Figerative Language

1.) Metaphor: you can fall asleep and wake up drunk on sky

2.) Similie: the world was full of clouds, the kind like pillows

Question

What does Darius mean when he says that the clouds are god ?

Morgan Henry

Our Good Day

Key Characters: Esperanza, Rachel and Lucy

Summary: Ezperanza is approached by two girls who ask her for five dollars. Cathy tells Esperanza that their names are Rachel and Lucy. Lucy tells Esperanza that if she gives then five dollars, they will be her friend forever. Esperanza only has one friend, Cathy, so she decides to give them the five dollars since Cathy is only her friend until Tuesday. Rachel tells Esperanza that the money is for a bike. They already have ten dollars and they only need five more. Esperanza only has one friend and she doesnt have a bike so she decides to give them the money. She takes three of her own dollars and two of Nenny's. The girls decide that they will all share the bike and everyone can have it for a full day. Since the bike is new they all get to ride it on the first day. Lucy and Rachel can't decide who gets to ride it first, so the three girls all ride the bike at the same time. They ride the bike around the neighborhood for everyone too see.

Figurative Language: "Can't you see they smell like a broom?" p. 14. This is a simile comparing the way Rachel and Lucy smell to the way a broom smells.

Question: Why does Esperanza lave Cathy for Rachel and Lucy?

Morgan Henry

Cathy Queen of Cats

Key Characters: Cathy and Esperanza (narrator)

Summary: Esperanza is talking to Cathy, one of her neighbors. Cathy is telling Esperanza about the people on Mango Street. Esperanza learns who to hang out with and who not too. Cathy also tells Esperanza that she will be her friend, but only until next Tuesday, because Cathy, who has a ton of cats, is moving away on Tuesday because the neighborhood is getting bad. She is going to find her great great distance grand cousin.

Figurative Language: "Two girls raggedy as rats live across the street." p. 12 This is a simile comparing the way the girls look to the way a rat looks.

Question: Why does Esperanza get offended when Cathy says, the neighborhood is getting bad?

Alyssa Angie: Marin

Marin

Key Characters: Marin and Esperanza

Figurative Language: "I am in love with those two green apples you call eyes..."

Marin is a girl that lives on Mango Street. She says she has a boyfriend that lives in Puerto Rico and that he will marry her one day. But it doesn’t seem like that will ever happen because of how Marin acts around boys. Marin said “What matters most is for the boys to see us and for us to see them.” (27) It is easy for the boys to see Marin because her eyes are so pretty and her skirts are so short. But when some boys “come on to” her, she just stairs at them and isn’t scared. Esperanza knows that Marin is just waiting for someone to change her life.

Why does it matter for the boys to see her and for her to see the boys?

Those Who Don’t

Main Characters: Esperanza

Figurative Language: “the big one that looks like a dumb grown man"

In “Those Who Don’t” Esperanza talks about going in to other neighborhoods and people going into her neighborhood. She gets scared when she has to go into other unfamiliar neighborhoods, even though she scolds people that are nervous to go into her neighborhood. “Those who don’t know any better come into our neighborhood scared. They think we’re dangerous… They are stupid people who are lost and got here by mistake.” She says, “…But watch us drive into a neighborhood of another color and… our car windows get rolled up tight and our eyes look straight.” (28)

Why does Esperanza get scared in other neighborhoods?

The Monkey Garden Greg Jenkins

The Monkey Garden

The main characters in this chapter is Espiranza, Sally, Tito and his friends.

In this chapter there is a garden and a monkey that lived there with the owners and one day they all moved so now the garden is able to be accessed. At first the garnden was beautiful with flowers and insects. Then as time went on it got out of control. The flowers grow wildly and 'dead' cars started to appear and eventually fill the garden up. Espiranza and he friends played games in the garden probably to get away from their parents. This is where Espiranza "wanted to die and where I tried one day but not even the monkey garden would have me"(pg.96). Then with Sally, Tito and his friends. Tito and his friends had Sally's keys and said that they wouldn't give it back untill she kissed them. So they all went behind a car. Espiranza went to tell Tito's mom and she didn't do anything so she left and went to "save" Sally. Sshe got three big sticks and a brick. Sally said to go home. Espiranza fan away to the other side of the garden, sat down under a tree and tried not to cry, but she did. She wanted to die.Espiranza tried to 'will' her heart to stop beating. She failed and instead woke up a mess. "and the garden that had been such a good place to play didn't seem mine either."(pg.98)

How do you suppose Espiranza "tried to die"?

"the family spoke like guitars."

I think this means that the family spoke in a southern accent.

Kara Lesti

A Smart Cookie

Key Characters: Esperanzas mother and Esperanza

Figurative Language:
1. Now she draws with the needle and thread, like knotted rose buds, tulips made of silk thread- simile

Summary: Esperanza is talking about her mother. Esperanzas mother could have been anything she wanted to be. She was very smart, but Esperanzas mother tells Esperanza not to end up like her. Esperanzas mother wants the best for Esperanza, she wants her to make the right decisions in her life. Esperanzas mother wanted a good job, but she pretty much just cooks and takes care of the kids. She could have had the best job and probably make more money, but she isn’t. Esperanzas mother wants the absolute best for Esperanza. She also wants her to choose the best path to take.

Questions:
1. Why does Esperanzas mother want Esperanza to make a better path in life for herself?

Nate Platek, No Speak English pg 76

Main Character: Esperanza, Mamacita, Rachel, E's dad

This chapter talks about a big fat lady who moves in across the street. She comes from a spanish speaking country (most likely Mexico). She brings her son. She doesn't speak english. she stays in her room all the time and no one knows why. Some say its because she is fat, some say its because of 3 flights of stairs. Esperanza says its because she doesn't speak english. She sings in her room and doesnt let her son listen to the english radio. She is obviously homesick.

figurative language
e.g. 1 The taxi door opened like a waiter's arm
e.g. 2 Out stepped a tiny pink shoe, a foot as soft as a rabbit's foot.

QWho is mamacita?

Q Why does Esperanza think she won't come down?

Nikki Weissbrod Hips! pg. 49-52

Main characters:
Rachel, Lucy, Nenny, Esperanza

Esperanza is jumping rope with Nenny and RAchel And lucy. They are talking about how they want hips. They say that hips show a womans skeleton from am ans skeleton, how they are important to have for many reasons and how they are beautiful. They begin to jump to their rhymes about hips, comparing them to flowers and things. Nenny, who is the yougest, is not in the conversation, she is off in her own world. A world Esperanza says that she, Rachel and lucy do not belong in anymore.

Figurative language:
"Like a buick with the keys in the ignition'
"they bloom like roses"

Questions:
1) Name something they say that hips are good for.
2) Describe the "world" that Nenny is in.

Joe Ziccardi Pg. 84-85

"Minerva Writes Poems"

Minerva is only two years older than Esperanza, but she is married with two children. Her husband left her, but he sometimes returns and leaves her again. At night, after the children go to bed and she is alone, Minerva writes poems. She shares her poems with Esperanza, and Esperanza shares hers. However, Minerva also continues to take her husband back, even when he abuses her. She visits Esperanza one night after being beaten and asks for advice, but Esperanza can't offer any. She doesn't know what will happen to Minerva.

Key Characters: Minerva and Esperanza

Figurative Language: Little Pieces of paper that smell like a dime.

Question: What is Minerva's overall problem in this chapter?

Brandon molle

Boy& girls

Esperanza wishes for a best girl friend of her own. As she realizes the differences between the boys and girls. she looks at her own family as references. carlos and kiki are each others best friend. esperanza longs for her own best friend to who she can tell her all the secerets in the world.

Q; In boys and girls who is Esperanza best friend and why do you think this?

Characters

Nenny

Carlos

kiki

figurative "The boys and girls live in separate worlds".

Mike Woodard †

Chapter: #23... Born Bad...

Esperanza believes that she is going to hell. Her mom tells her she was born on an evil day, and what day that is I do not know. But her mom prays for her, her sisters pray for her, and she even prays for herself. She believes that people are born destined to go bad, but only certain people. Her aunt is sick and she has some disgusting disease where she has trouble doing anything. And her house isn’t being taken care of and things are getting clean and her house smells aweful. So she starts to believe that sickness picks its victims randomly and without mercy. And she thinks she’s even more destined to go to hell because of what she did to her aunt. Her and her sisters play a game where they act like someone else and everyone else has to guess. And she acted like her aunt, pretending like she was sick, walking around with a hunched back, coughing. And it was down right rude.

Key Characters: Esperanza, Esperanza's Aunt, Esperanza's Sisters

Figurative Language: Simile- "Her head thrown back like a thirsty lady."

Question: What do you believe the above simile means?

Nate Platek, Four Skinny Trees pg 74

Esperanza talks about these four skinny trees in her neighborhood. She compares herself to the trees. She says she is the only one who understands them. She says they have skinny necks and elbows. They shouldnt be there. She is saying when she is to sad to keep keeping she looks at
them. She says they do not forget to reach. She says their only reason is to be & be.


Main characaters: Esperanza, four trees



figurative language
e.g. 1 they'd all droop like tulips in a glass
e.g. 2 They (the trees) teach.

Q: Why does Ezperanza compare herself to the trees?

Q: Why does Esperanza say she is the only ones who understands them and vice versa?

Luke Baumgardner

"The Family of Little Feet"

There was a family and everyone in the family was small. The mother of the family gave her old shoes to Esperanza and her friend Rachel. To Esperanza and Rachel the shoes were very pretty and a symbol of maturity. Esperanza and Rachel wore the shoes and felt older. Eventually guys started to notice Esperanza and Rachel because of their shoes. Guys started to check out Esperanza and Rachel and yell names to them. It eventually got so out of control that they had to throw out their shoes, because they couldn't handle all the attention from all the guys.


Key Characters: Esperanza, Rachel


Figurative Language: His feet were fat and doughy like thick tamales, and these he powdered and stuffed into white socks and brown leather shoes.



Question: Who out of the family of little feet gave the shoes to Esperanza and Rachel?

cindy white

Red Clowns. (pgs. 99-100)
Summary:
Esperanza was touched by a group of boys,wven though she really dosent say what they do to her exactly. Esperanza goes to a carnival with Sally and that she enjoys watching Sally on the rides. Sally disappears with an older boy. While Esperanza is waiting for Sally to return, a group of boys abduct Esperanza. This experience wasn’t like she had even herd about before. She is traumatized and keeps hearing the voice of one of the boys saying, “I love you, Spanish girl.” She blames Sally for abandoning her blames all the women who have not told her what sex is really like.

Characters:
Sally
Esperanza
The Group of Boys

Figurative Language:
I waited my whole life.
^ Hyperbole.

Question:
How do you think Espranza felt when the boys said they loved her?

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CHAPTER: # 28.... Sire....

Summary

Everyday Esperanza walks by a guy named Sire. She trys not to be scared because everyone was scared of him. So she looked him in the eye. Then Lois, his girl friend came. Esperanza describes Lois as having everything like a baby because sire means father and Lois and Sire had a baby.

main charicters: Esperanza. sire . lois

fig: straight into the dusty cat fur of his eyes

???? why is he called sire????

House on Mango Street

Joe Petti

Noah Stone

House on Mango Street: Chapeter Summary for, There Was an Old Women She had so Many Children She Didn't Know What To Do

In this chapter you learn of Rosa Varga and her out of controll children. Rosa is a single mother who has been left by her husband with an abundant number of children that she has little controll of. Her children run wild wherever they may go and have little respect for all things living including themselves. Over time people learn that these children are not controlled and stop caring if they put them selves in harmfull situations such as when Eferen chipped his tooth on a parking meter or when Refugia got her head stuck between two slats in the back gate. The situations they get into get worse and worse until one day Angel Varga " learned to fly and dropped from the sky like a suger donut, just like a falling star, and exploded down to earth without even an oh.

Key Characters

Rosa, Angel, Efren, and Refugia Varga

2 Examples of Figurative Language

1.) Similie: " droped from the sky just like a falling star. "

2.) Similie: " and alomost break like fancy museum vases you cant replace. "

Question

Within this chapter what does the childrens behavior ultimantly cause them in the long run?

What Sally Said Greg Jenkins

What Sally Said



The main characters are sally and her father.





This girl, whose name is Sally, Is being phisically abused by her father and when she comes to school all bruised up. She denies what really happens and says that she fell and other times that her dad doesn't hit her hard. There was one situation in the story that Sally states that her "father hits her like a dog and that she's gooing to run away like his sisters who made the family ashamed."(pg.92)

One day sally came to stay with Espiranza and Sally didn't stay long because her father came over at night. he said that "this is the last time"(pg.93) and sally went back home.

Then one day Sally's father caught her talking to a boy and she didn't show up for school for two days. "Sally said that he just went crazy, he just forgot he was her father between the buckle and the belt."(pg.93)



What happened to Sally at the end of the chapter? and why do you think she didn't go to school for two days after her father saw her talking to a boy?

Figurative language

"and then he broke into his hands"

I'm assuming that means he hit her really hard.

Erica green

The house on Mango Street

House on mango street is about this girl who moved to a new house on mango street. The girl talks about her old house's and how she lived. The girl describes the new house on mango street and it looks. She tells us everybodys name in her family but hers. She dreams of having a real house that she can be proud of.

Question: Why does she move so much?

Characters: Mama, Papa, Carlos, Kiki, her sister Nenny and her

figurative: "so small you'd think they were holding there breath" page.4

Nikki Weissbrod, Chanclas! pg. 45-48

The main characters in this chapter are Ezperanza and her mother, Uncle Nacho, and her boy cousin.

Esperanza and her family are going to a baptism then a party with the rest of their relatives. She got a new dress and new clothes to wear to the party, but now she is embarassed of her shoes because they are not new, they are old. She describes her shoes are being large, and an ugly brown color. they are her plain school shoes, and when her boy cousin asks her to dance, she refuses to dance with him because she is embarassed of the shoes. However, when her Uncle Nacho asks her to dance, he does not allow her to say no, he tells her that her shoes do not matrter, that she should have fun. She dances with him, forgets about her shoes. Her boy cousin, who she describes as a man, is watching.

figurative language:
"My feet swell big and heavy like plungers."
"The door is locked, and won't open up for nobody"

Questions:
1) Why does Esperanza say that her feet are "like plungers" ?
2) Why does Esperanza not want to dance with her boy cousin?

Kara Lesti

Beautiful & Cruel

Key Characters: Nenny and Esperanza

Figurative language: 1. But I have decided not to grow up tame like the others who lay their necks on the threshold waiting for the ball and chain- simile

Summary: Esperanza is talking about how she wants to choose her own path in life. She doesn’t want to end up like the other girls. She doesn’t want to listen to her mom about to grow up and act more like a lady. She doesn’t want anyone choosing her path for her. She wants to live her life and not worry about being tied down. Esperanza basicly wants to choose her own path.

Questions:
1. What is the path Esperanza wants to choose?

Davin Fumich :) Three Sisters and Alicia and I talking on Edna's Steps

The Three Sisters
Characters:

Esperenza
Lucy
Rachel
Blue Vained Sister
Cat-Eyed Sister
Figuritive language:
"...thin as a spider web and barely noticed."(pg.103)
Summary:
In the chapter The Three Sisters, Esperanza learns that Rachel and Lucy's baby sister died. The family held a wake in their house. This was Esperanza's first time seeing dead people, let alone a wake in someone's actual house. During the wake a woman with cat eyes asks Esperanza her name. Another woman (with a high voice and blue vains) repeated her name. Eventually, the sisters asked Esperanza to make a wish. She did. One of the sisters did read Esperanza's mind, and she was shocked. Esperanza left, and never saw the sisters again.

Question:
What was Esperanza's wish?

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Alicia and I Talking On Edna's Steps
Characters:
Esperanza
Alicia

Figuritive Language:
"I say and shake my head as if shaking could undo the year I've lived here." (Pg.106)
Summary:
In Alicia and I Talking on Edna's steps, Alecia and Esperanza are talking about home. Alicia is from Guadalajara. Esperanza is sad because she realizes that she doesn't have a home. Esperanza is ashamed of where she came from. Esperanza sarcastically, states that the Mayer won't do anything to make Mango street better.
Question:
How do you know Alicia is from Guadalajara?

Jessica Powers

The First job.Page 53

summary:

Esperanza's parents want her to get a job.Esperanza has been out playing and one day her aunt finds her a job.Esperanza's job is to match pictures with her developed negatives.In the chapter Esperanza talks about her job,and if her experience working .Such as eating in the lunchroom(which she actually eats in the bathroom).shifts,such as night shifts on her job.Esperanza meets an old Oriental man and shes exited to have someone to eat lunch.The man asks for a birthday kiss .Esperanza leans over to give the man a kiss on the cheek,but as she dose the man grabs her face and kisses Esperanza.

Characters:

Esperanza
Esperanza's Mama
An old Oriental man
(mention of Tioto)

Figurative language:

"It wasn't as if I didn't want to work" page 53

Question.
What was the place where Esperanza got kissed?
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Papa who wakes up in the dark.Page 56

Summary:

Esperanza sees her dad cry,when he says "Your abuelito is dead."Her papa crying is unusual for Esperanza to see.Esperanza explains that her father must go to Mexico and how he will be there to send the dead away.Esperanza's papa told her to explain to her younger siblings that they can't go out or play.Esperanza describes her dad,who wakes before the sun She thinks of the day he'll die.Esperanza holds her father in her arms

Characters:
Esperanza
Esperanza's papa
(mention of Esperanza's grandpa)

Figurative language:

"Esta muero,and then as if he just heard the news himself crumples Esperanza's dad like a coat and cries my brave papa cries" page.56

Question:
Why did Esperanza's papa tell her first about the death of her abielito and that she must explain to her siblings why they cant go out or play?

Nicolina Albino, Geraldo No Last Name

Summery: Geraldo No Last Name

Her name was Marin. She met this boy at a dance. Marin said he was pretty and young. He worked at a restaurant, and his name was Geraldo, he wasn't very wealthy She didn't know she would be the last person to see him, he was killed in a Hit-and-run accident. He was brought to the hospital where they tried to help him, but the surgeon came too late and he had died. Marin felt bad that he had died, they never found out anything about him not evern his last name.



Characters:Geraldo,Merin



Figurative laungage

"Saturday Shirt" metaphor for party shirt on page 65



question: what happen to Geraldo?

Welcome to Mrs. Mitchell's 3rd period English Class Blog!

Your assignment involves writing a summary on certain chapters in the book House on Mango Street.

To use the blog, click on Compose. In the Title Space put your NAME. Under that you will see a blank white space which will be your 'Word document' where you will write your text. You can use the editing tools found at the top of the page. You are to use Times New Roman text. Click Publish Post (posts to the blog) or Save Now (saves as a draft) when done.

To edit a previously written post, click on the Edit Posts tab at the top of the page. Find your name from the list and click Edit.

To post comments on another's blog you need to go to the following website: http://mitchellsmangost3.blogspot.com No password is needed. Find the person's blog you want to comment on. Click on the Comment button under their blog and again you will have the blank space for writing your text. Click Publish Post when done.