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The House on Mango Street is Sandra Cisneros' first major work. Even though she periodically wrote poems and stories throughout her childhood and adolescence, it was not until she attended the University of Iowa's Writers Workshop in the late 1970s that she realized her experiences as a Latina woman…

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On pg. 4, Cisneros includes a remark about Esperanza's house made by one of the nuns. She echoes that comment on pg. 45 when Sister Superior has Esperanza point out her house, and Sister says, "that one?" Why does Sister point to the wrong house, and wh
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what two lines from the house on mango street support why home should be a safe place
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why does esperanza want so desperately to be sallys friend?
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Is the storyteller really a ballon as she says on page 9?
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11. What happens to Esperanza when she and her friends are given some cast-off shoes?
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what happens to Esperanza when she and her friends are given some cast-off shoes? How do the shoes change them? what effect do they have on the men in the neighborhood?
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what legacy has esperanzas great grandmother passed on to later generations?
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what is Esperanza strengths? what is her weaknesses? why is she important to the story? and a revealing statement from her?
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