1.
-Esperanza
She thinks that boys and girls live in different world. When she was young, she really wanted to escape from Mango Street. She did not like anybody around her and responsibility to her family. She shows readers how she develops her feeling toward people around her and finally she realized of her writing ability.
She is the narrator of this novel. She wants to have her own home. Esperanza means “hope” in Spanish.
-Sally
Sally’s sexual behavior gives Esperanza uncomfortable, because Esperanza has not yet built a concept of sex.
Esperanza’s friend. She likes to drive boys.
-Nenny
Nenny is Esperanza’s responsibility so Esperanza tries to keep her away from bad things. Nenny and Esperanza are dreamer and they do not seem to have similarity but they are alike.
She is Esperanza’s younger sister. Her name is Magdalena.
-Marin
She is from Puerto Rico. Because of baby, she can not leave home. She has a dream to escape from Mango Street.
-Rachel and Lucy
Esperanza’s friend. They are from Texas.
-Allicia
She attends a local University. She is the one who does not try to escape from where she is through marriage.
-Cathy
Esperanza’s first friend. She does not want Esperanza to be a friend of Rachel and Lucy.
2.
Esperanza moves in a house on Mango Street. When someone ask where she lives she realized that she wants to escapes from where she is because her house is not good enough to show it to someone. The house on Mango Street is the first house Esperanza’s parents own.
Esperanza makes friends after her moving. And this novel shows how Esperanza matures and makes friends. Esperanza and her friends learn about boys from Marin. In each chapter, Esperanza meets new friends and she is adapted to people’s life on Mango Street. Finally, Esperanza realized that she can not leave Mango Street. And she knows that her writing will help her situation better later.
Themes
Knowing language is very important. Because Esperanza’s father, mother, and Mamacita do not speak and writing English fluently so they treats as low level people in society. Esperanza knows mastering language gives people power and her aunt Lupe encourage Esperanza keeps writing. Because it will help her free emotionally.
3.
Why Esperanza and her friends wear high heeled shoes and imitate adult lady?
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They act like adults because those are the people they see around them. These are their role models and they are imitating what they see. To them it's fun and they feel what it's like to be a grownup.
They are at an age when their body starts to change and they become curious about boys. They feel lady-like when they were high heels because they start to notice that by being sexy, in this case wearing heels, they get attention.
They reach the age of purberty, and start to notice the difference between boys and girls. They want to catch guys' attention by wearing high heels. Those girls enjoy male's admiration toward their outer appearance.
As usual, children in poverty dense areas are forced to grow up quickly. The high heel represents their movement into adulthood, an unready adulthood, which could be explained by the way the shoes barley fit them. Also, these particular girls are searching for something that is missing from their lives, love. From what they have seen around them, that love can only be found in the arms of a male, and to catch the male attention, they have to dress in the same way they see the adults in their neighborhood dressed.
Children often like to imitate older people. Their best models are usually their parents, but Esperanza and her friends were well-aware of other people on their block. Children can model themselves as adults, but they really don't understand the sexual aspects in it, and are often either scared or taken advantage of.
The girls dress like this because they are imitating other women in their neighborhood. Kids always do that when they are interested in new things. However, sometimes they may be taken advantage of by people with low morals that are just waiting for an opportunity to strike.
They are in a developing stage from child to adulthood. They also have alot of influence from the women in the neighborhood and movies. For the time they are wearing the high heels they feel that they are beautiful women.
I believe they are imitating what they see. Usually at that age you imitate what you see. The shoes also symbolize the girls becoming adults. They are forced to enter a world which they are not ready for. The girls also do this to feel beautiful and attractive. They want to be able to catch male attention, and some day be loved like the other women in Mango Street.
They wear the high heals to try to be like the women that are around them in their lives. This is how they see themselves in their futures because it is all they see of what women are around them.
That is what all children do imitate grow up. Because when children was little, they always like to become a adult and they believe by dress same as adult themselves would become same as adult.
They are imitating the adult women on Mango Street. They are in an age when they imitate what they see around them. Besides, they wear the high heels thinking that they would look more beatiful and more mature.
Esperanza and her friends see older women as role models. This is why they mimic them by wearing high heels. They see what kind of attention this brings out of people, and they see that this particular attention is wanted, so they begin to want it too.
-Lev Starikov
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