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?
7 comments:
Kara Lesti
Esperanzas wish was to move out of the House on Mango street. She doesn't like living there, and the one sister told her that she will get out but not to forget the people on Mango Street.
Nate Platek
Esperanza's wish was to leave mango street and never come back.
Jessica Powers-Esperanzas wish is really for a new house she is not proud of the one she lives in.Esperanza wants to leave mango street never to return.
Heidi Rumpf
You know that Alicia is From that place because she gave Esperanza a bag that says it and she told her.
Esperanzas wish is to be able to move out of the house on mango street and into a house that is much better and that she is not ashamed of living in
Esperanzas wish is to be able to move out of the house on mango street and into a house that is much better and that she is not ashamed of living in
Noah Stone
Chelsea Heppert
You know alicia is from where ever she is from because Alicia gives Esperanza a leather purse with the name stitched into it.
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