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| In the house on mango street, what do houses seem to represent? |
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| What does Esperanza's name mean? |
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| What was Esperanza's first job? |
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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 House On Mango Street can be best described as a? |
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| Who does Esperanza want to have live in her attic when she growns up? |
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| In "chanclas" an embarrassed Esperanza declines her counsin's invitation to dance. What embarasses her? |
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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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| to whom is The House on Mango Street dedicated? |
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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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| 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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| What does Esperanza's hair suggest about her, symbolically speaking? |
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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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| How does Espernaza hope to escape her neighborhood and the house on mango street? |
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| What did Esperanza's mother give up to marry? |
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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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| 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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| What happens to Esperanza on her first day at work? |
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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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| Blessings and limitations |
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| Who are sexual representations in The House... |
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