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The House On Mango Street
The House On Mango Street Literature
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English
Undergraduate 2
12/13/2012

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In the house on mango street, what do houses seem to represent?
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Self Posession
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What does Esperanza's name mean?
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Hope
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What was Esperanza's first job?
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Photoshop Worker
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In the house on mango street, Mamacita starts crying because the baby boy:
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Is singing a pepsi commercial
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What image is used as symbolic motif throughout The House On Mango Street?
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The woman in the window
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The House On Mango Street can be best described as a?
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Buildingsroman
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Who does Esperanza want to have live in her attic when she growns up?
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Bums
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In "chanclas" an embarrassed Esperanza declines her counsin's invitation to dance. What embarasses her?
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Her feet
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When Esperanza visits elenita to have her fortune told, elenita tells her that she sees what in Esperanza's future?
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A home in her heart
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to whom is The House on Mango Street dedicated?
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The Women, Los Mujeres
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What fairy tale figure is Rafaela who "drinks coconut and papaya juice on Tuesdays" compared to in Mango Street?
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Rapunzel
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To describe her sense of being trapped, esperanza compares herself to:
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A Balloon tied to an anchor
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What advice do the "three sisters" give esperanza?
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To remember to come back
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What does Esperanza's hair suggest about her, symbolically speaking?
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Her rebelliousness
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In the chapter in Mange Street named "there was an old women she had so many children she didnt' know what to do" what are we told happens to Angel Vargas?
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He falls and possibly dies
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In "Gil's furnature bought and sold" Cisneros describes the sound of an old music box - why is it significant that esperanza is attracted to the box?
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because it's not "girly"
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How does Espernaza hope to escape her neighborhood and the house on mango street?
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Through writing
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What did Esperanza's mother give up to marry?
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Her Singing - Opera
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In the chapter in Mango Street named "the family of little feet" what happens to esperanza when she and her friends are given some cast off shoes?
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they realize their sexuality
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in The House on Mango Street, why does the young man who dies in Geraldo No Last Name have no last name?
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Because he is an illegal immigrant
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What does the monkey garden possibly represent?
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Eden
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In the house on mango street, what reveals misgivings about Machismo?
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Sally's relationship with her father
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What does "Alicia who sees mice" fear other than mice
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her father
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What happens to Esperanza on her first day at work?
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An old man kisses her
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What happens to Esperanza's aunt lupe?
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She does of a mysterious disease
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What is Chicana-ness?
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Blessings and limitations
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Who are sexual representations in The House...
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Sally and Martin
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