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?
6 comments:
Kara Lesti
Esperanza is trying to tell us in this chapter is that she has a different laughter then everyone else. Also she sees the world different then everyone else.
Nate Platek
Esperanza is just describing people's laughter. She is very observant. She is probably young in this chapter.
-+-Nikki Weissbrod-+-
Esperanza is describing how her family has loud laughter, and how other families have other froms and ways of laughter. She says she likes her loud laughter that sounds like plates breaking.
In this chapter esperanza is trying to tell us that everyone including her self is different in some way.
Eperanza is telling us that family members have things in common, Nenny and Esperanza have a similar laugh
Jessica powers-Esperanza is trying to say she has a diffrent laugh and many other characcteristics then other people
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