Thursday, December 17, 2009

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?

6 comments:

dantesinferno1 said...

Jessica Powers Yes i do belive Esperanza is sympathetic becasue i personally belive she sees herself in them a little bit and that Esperanza dosnt have alot and niether does these poeple so theres something in commmon.While i also belive that she acts as if sometimes she dosent when i belive she does.

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Kara Lesti

Yes i think Esperanza is sympathetic to homeless people because she knows how it feels to be with out a home.

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Morgan Henry

Yes, I think Esperanza is sympathetic to homeless people. I think this beacuse she says that when she is older and has a house of her own, she will let the bums live in her attic. She also says that she will be proud to tell people that the noise in not rats, it is bums in her attic.

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Luke Baumgardner



Yes because it shows to homeless people that she knows how it feels to be with out a home to live in.

dantesinferno1 said...

Yes esperanza is sympathetic to homeless because i think she want to be helpfull to those who are less fortunate then her

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