STUDY QUESTIONS

1. What does Esperanza like about Sally? What does she dislike?

2. How does Esperanza feel about her family?

3. Does Esperanza want a boyfriend?

4. Why does Esperanza want to leave Mango Street?

5. How is Esperanza different from the women she knows?

7. What is the meaning of the shoes Esperanza and her friends wear in "The Family of Little Feet"?

8. What does Esperanza think about Mexico?

9. Why does Esperanza want her own house?

10. What is the meaning of EsperanzaÂ’s conversation with the Three Sisters?

11. Why does Esperanza write?

12. Why is the book called "The House on Mango Street?"

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