Marin is a girl of about 13 or 14 whose parents have sent her to live with relatives in Chicago and whose relatives in Chicago would like to send her back to her parents. The adults’ motive for wanting to be rid of Marin may very well be that she […]
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Esperanza is the most fully developed character in the book. All our information about her comes from her; some things she tells us directly (and we must be alert to the possibility that they are perhaps true only at the moment she says them), others indirectly in her reported actions, […]
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Summary One Holy Night; My Tocaya The speaker in “One Holy Night” is an eighth-grade girl living in Chicago with her grandmother and uncle, immigrants from Mexico. She tells the events of the story in past tense: She was selling fruits and vegetables from a pushcart on Saturdays, and she […]
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Summary My Lucy Friend Who Smells Like Corn; Eleven; Salvador Late or Early; Mexican Movies; Barbie-Q; ‘Mericans; Tepeyac” Note: These 22 stories and sketches are grouped in three sections, each with one story that bears the same title as the section: “My Lucy Friend Who Smells Like Corn,” “One Holy […]
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From The House on Mango Street Esperanza Cordero The narrator and central character. Nenny (Magdalena) Esperanza’s younger sister. Papa, Mama, Carlos and Kiki Esperanza’s parents (Mr. and Mrs. E. Cordero) and her two younger brothers. Cathy A neighbor girl. Edna The woman who owns and lives in the apartment building […]
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Introduction The House on Mango Street and “Woman Hollering Creek” and Other Stories have enjoyed wide critical and popular favor, and deservedly so. Engagingly readable, their appeal is immediate, yet they open up areas of experience new to many U.S. readers. Sandra Cisneros’ fictional “voice” and her feminism are often […]
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The House on Mango Street Esperanza Cordero and her parents, sister, and brothers move into a house on Mango Street, after having lived in numerous other locations in Chicago, only some of which Esperanza remembers. At least this latest house is the Corderos’ own, but in other respects, it is […]
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