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?
5 comments:
-+-Nikki Weissbrod-+-
It is important for the boys to see her and for her to see the boys so that they can find a boy to marry them and take them away from Mango St. so they can have a better life.
Davin Fumich. Those who don't:
Esperanza feels threatned in other neighborhoods because Esperanza doesn't know the people in the area, and how other people feel when they enter Esperanza's neighborhood.
Joe Ziccardi
Esperanza feels threatened in other neighborhoods because Esperanza doesnt know anybody there and maybe she is afraid what other neighborhoods think of her.
Esperanza was threatened by people from other neighborhoods because she did not know them at all
nicolina albino
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