Q. How is The House on Mango Street different from the other places Esperanza has lived?
How is the house on Mango Street different from the other places Esperanza has lived? The house on Mango Street is different because the Corderos own it rather than rent it. Esperanza expected the house on Mango Street to be a house with plenty of room, “real stairs”, at least three bathrooms, and a huge yard.
Q. Why is Esperanza afraid of Sire what do her parents think of him?
Esperanza is afraid of Sire because he makes her uncomfortable; she says, “it (makes) your blood freeze to have somebody look at you like that”.
Q. How does Esperanza describe her House on Mango Street?
Summary: “The House on Mango Street” Esperanza describes how her family came to live at the house on Mango Street. The family owns this house, so they are no longer subject to the whims of landlords, and at the old apartment, a nun made Esperanza feel ashamed about where she lived.
Q. What kind of person is Esperanza from The House on Mango Street?
Esperanza. The novel’s heroine and narrator, an approximately twelve-year-old Chicana (Mexican-American girl). Esperanza is a budding writer who wishes for a home of her own. The House on Mango Street chronicles a year in her life as she matures emotionally and sexually.
Q. How does the House on Mango Street compare to the house her parents had always dreamed of owning?
The family had always dreamed of owning their own house, a white house with lots of rooms and trees in the yard, but the house on Mango Street is small and falling apart. It is still an improvement over their earlier residences, though, as at least they own the house and so don’t have to deal with landlords.
Q. How does Esperanza describe her house what does this say about her?
Esperanza describes the qualities and parts of her ideal house: picturesque, not belonging to a man, flowers in front, a porch, and her shoes beside the bed. She describes the house as safe and full of potential, “clean as paper before the poem.”
Q. Who finally gets Esperanza to dance?
Everyone has a good time except for Esperanza, who is ashamed of her old brown saddle shoes. A boy asks her to dance but she declines. Finally her Uncle Nacho convinces Esperanza to dance, and they dance beautifully while everyone watches.
Q. Who broke Mamacita’s heart?
What broke Mamacitas heart? Her own child, who she brought with her from Mexico, learns English. It breaks her heart that even he insists on speaking this “ugly language” that she can’t understand.
Q. Who is Rapunzel Why would Rafaela wish that she had hair like Rapunzel?
Rapunzel is a fairy tail character. Rafaela wishes to have hair like hers so that she can get out of her house in which her husband has locked her in, and do the things that she wants to do.
Q. What are three things Esperanza has in common with the trees?
What are three things Esperanza has in common with the trees ? Three things they have in common is a skinny neck skinny elbows and their secret strength.
Q. What do the four trees teach Esperanza?
3. What does Esperanza learn from the trees? The trees teach Esperanza to keep reaching for what she wants, and they show her it is possible to grow.
Q. What advice does Mama give Esperanza?
Esperanza’s mother comforts Esperanza by saying she will be more beautiful as she gets older, but Esperanza has decided not to wait around for a husband to take her away. Instead, she wants to be like the femme fatales in movies who drive the men crazy and then refuse them. These women do not give their power away.
Q. What has Esperanza decided she will not do?
1. Esperanza has decided she will not be “tame.”
Q. How old is Esperanza in the House on Mango Street?
12
Q. Why do you think Mamacita doesn’t learn English?
Once she arrives Mamacita never leaves the apartment, and she refuses to learn English. Some of the neighbors think she never leaves because she is too fat to get down the stairs, but Esperanza thinks it is because Mamacita is afraid of English. Mamacita starts to cry and tells him “no speak English” over and over.
