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a) ignorance and racism in society vs. human.
b) On page 13, Cathy says that she has to move because the neighborhood is getting bad. Cathy says this right after Esperanza and her family moved to Mango Street. This shows Cathy's ignorance for her racist comment. She was unaware that by saying that, she was offending a group of people.

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When you're talking about internal forces, certain words are helpful.  Our desires often come into conflict with one another (desire to hurry vs. desire to pay attention to detail).  Beliefs often come into conflict with one another (a belief in one's own abilities vs. a belief that one is helpless).  Fears can get in the way of things.  Commitments of various kinds (to a person, a place, a belief system, a way of doing things) can accomplish -- or prevent -- a lot.  Think of these nouns as forces -- things that can get stuff done, make things happen, prevent things from happening, etc. -- and it'll help make them precise.

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"How" and "The way":  When people use these words, they usually could use more specificity or precision.  If you talk about "The way her mother raised her," people need to know, well... how did her mother raise her?  What about how her mother raised her is the thing under discussion?  Ditto "how."  If you mention "how her brother talked to her," people need to know:  how did her brother talk to her?  What did you notice about  how he spoke? Replace the "how" with "that" -- the thing itself.

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sometimes people write "E vs [this thing she wants and doesn't have]."  If she wants it, she's not opposed to it, right?  I would imagine what opposes a desire is either a) a conflicting desire (a desire to be lazy vs. a desire to be productive) or b) the forces that get in the way of achieving that desire (desire for an education vs. the lack of money to pay for tuition).

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sometimes abstract nouns can work for conflicts ("desire for friends") without too much commentary, but other abstract nouns ("culture," "social class," "society") might require a lot.  Which culture? Which social class?  What element of the culture?  etc.

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sometimes people list two things that aren't actually in opposition to one another.  If they're not parallel, it won't work (happiness vs. electricity... how does one get in the way of the other?).  The two things have to be in the same plane, so to speak, to interfere with one another.  A variation on this is listing two things which are both in opposition to something else. If your two nouns are very similar, or if they go along with one another, it's not a conflict.

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Esperanza's fear and curiosity of aging Vs. The process of aging  (nice changes! :))
chapter: The house on mango street
"I knew then I had to have a house. A real house. one I could point to. But this isn't it. The house on mango street isn't it. For the time being, mama says Temporary, says papa. but I know how those things go.

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participles are words formed from a verb (e.g., going, gone, being, been ) but used as an adjective or noun (e.g., adjectives: working woman, burned toast) (e.g., nouns: good breeding, excellent writing). Though you can technically uses these in conflicts as nouns ("fitting in," for instance) they tend to be vague (who's fitting in? into what?).  Remember than in conflicts, these nouns identify forces -- things that get things done, make things happen, etc. See if you can rephrase these participles by using more traditional nouns -- "desire" and "belief" are the most likely to work. (I put this up after lunch, so if you missed it, I get it).

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Any time one thing is part of another thing, it's going to be hard for them to be a clear conflict.  Her identity is part of who she is, for instance.  Her cultures are part of who she is.  To clear that up, articulate what part of her or what quality of hers is in conflict with what element or what quality of the other thing.  So:  "Montag vs. reading" won't work.  "The difficulty Montag faces because of his lack of education vs. his desire to make meaning out of what he reads" would definitely work.  A similar problem happens with the word "society" -- which part of society is in conflict with which part of society? (And who's society are we talking about in the first place?)

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sometimes abstract nouns can work for conflicts ("desire for friends") without too much commentary, but other abstract nouns ("culture," "social class") might require a lot.  Which culture? Which social class?  What element of the culture?  etc.

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Her desire for a man or boy vs how they poorly they wind up treating her

-Marin: shows E what having a boyrfriend is like etc
-The Family of Little Feet: shows what men actually feel about younger girls.
-Sire: shows E finding an interest in a boy and then is hit with reality when he goes off with another girl.
-The Red Clowns

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a) people of Mango Street vs. rest of the world
b) Start/events: pg. 12, 23, 28
End: never really ends
Throughout the book (and beyond the end of the book), the people of Mango Street consider how the rest of the world sees them, along with wondering what it would be like if they didn't live on Mango Street. The rest of the world thinks badly of the people of Mango street - "They think we're dangerous. They think we will attack them with shiny knives."

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"Esperanza vs. __" is always going to be tricky.  What part of Esperanza, vs. what part of Esperanza?  If it's her (all of her) vs. her (all of her), then it's so broad it doesn't identify a clear issue. If it's E (everything about her) vs. E (something within her), then it's not a conflict (i.e., "everything about Esperanza, including her embarrassment," vs. "her embarrassment."  Problematic).  But E's pride in her name vs. her shame because of her name:  that's a conflict.

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a.Hispanics vs. Society
i. 1st moment in chapter "Cathy queen of cats" pg. 13
"the neighborhood is getting bad"
b.English vs. Spanish
i. 1st moment in chapter "my name"
pg.10
"in english my name means hope. In Spanish it means too many letters"

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(hey, check out my comment re: "Esperanza vs. __" elsewhere on this padlet -- it should help.  -- Ms. A)
pg: 53, "The first job" - Esperanza vs Self-Confidence (Within Society), Esperanza feels like she does not fit in with the rest of the people working. She is overall scared to sit alone by herself in a public setting, she lacks the confidence at first. This is a notable conflict because it shows "fear" within Esperanza in the form of hesitation to a potential simple social interaction.  Its a clash between being "alone" and being looked in a public setting that way and her personal self esteem, which then resolves in her eating lunch in the washroom to avoid social confrontation. (Self vs Self)

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a). Esperanza's Aspirations vs. Her Current Financial/Social Situation.

b). p.5, the ending paragraph of Chapter 1 "The House on Mango Street."

In this chapter, the audience is introduced to a major conflict of Esperanza wanting to improve her life and leave the neighborhood. This is represented through her vision of her dream house.

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Family v. friends

Start: "Boys & girls" (p. 9: "Someday I…an anchor")
Having moved into another neighborhood, Esperanza has almost nowhere to go to away from her family. She describes herself as a red balloon tied to an anchor. The red balloon is imagery for a free, bright soul. And the anchor represents her clingy family, particularly her younger sister Nenny. She believes in committing to her family, since that's who she's lived with them all her life, but she also wants external kids around her age to be her "close friends".

End: "Our good day"
In this chapter, Esperanza makes friends with Lucy and Rachel and they become her two best friends. This will set Esperanza up with a better chance throughout the book to become connected with other kids and to get to know them and become close.

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a). Esperanza's desire for womanhood vs the reality of her age Womanhood
b." Family of Little feet"
c). Esperanza experiences being cat called for her heels. Her and her friends don't like the attention they got and found it scary. Never wore the heels again.

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Willful though reluctant acceptance of ones lot and role in life vs  not accepting it and fighting it, or at least rebelling against it in one way or another.

You can see this conflict starting in my name though you could make an argument of it being there since House on Mango street.

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"Esperanza vs. __" is always going to be tricky.  What part of Esperanza, vs. what part of Esperanza?  If it's her (all of her) vs. her (all of her), then it's so broad it doesn't identify a clear issue. If it's E (everything about her) vs. E (something within her), then it's not a conflict (i.e., "everything about Esperanza, including her embarrassment," vs. "her embarrassment."  Problematic).  But E's pride in her name vs. her shame because of her name:  that's a conflict.

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a) E's desire for a "better" life vs. E's desire to be happy/accept what she has
b) Start/events: pg. 3, 14, 33
End: end of book
Throughout the entire book, E constantly switches back and forth between wanting more for herself (name, house, money, etc.) and being content with how her life is (making the best of things, being positive)

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Conflict: Person(Esperanza) Vs Self (hey, check out my comment re: "Esperanza vs. __"
CHAPTER 1: The House On Mango Street
(Pg. 5)INTRO-This chapter leads us into the personal feelings of Esperanza, we begin the book off to see she may very well have a low self esteem due to her families poverty. Esperanza is embarrassed when a nun walks by and in a very surprised manner, asks if she lives in the raggedy house. We know she is upset, because She says the way she asked "made her feel like nothing". Based off of this, the audience sees her insecurities start to flow.
CHAPTER 19: A rice Sandwich (pg. 44) ACTION: Esperanza needs to eat at school because she does not have lunch meat, but when the Nun asks Esperanza where she lives, she feels humiliated when told to point it out. Even though their was a momentary conflict with the nun on if she could eat there, the true conflict lays with Esperanza because she is ashamed about who she is. Even though society makes it worse by being judgmental, thats a whole other conflict in itself. This conflict creates a emotional struggle with Esperanza, because everywhere she turns, there is something that makes her want to be someone else, including having to admit her bad financial situation to a school full of richer students.

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Children vs. Pain
A) When the child jumps off of a tree, and breaks both arms in "Meme Ortiz".
B) Young Angel Vargas falls off a roof and most likely dies in "There was an old woman she had so many children she didn't know what to do".
C) Esperanza is raped by a group of American boys at a carnival in "Red Clowns".

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Nenny
We can see Esperanzas first response to how she feels about Nenny in Boys & Girls. "you don't pick your sisters, you just get them and sometimes they come like Nenny"(8, Cisneros). Esperanza doesn't necessarily dislike Nenny as a sister, but there are moments where Esperanza criticizes Nenny. This conflict of Esperanzas views and responses to Nenny are continuous throughout the entirety of the novel. Can also be seen in the chapters: My Name, Our Good day and Gils furniture Store.
Examples in future chapters
My Name:
"...not quite as think as my sisters name - Magdalena - which is uglier than mine"
Gils Furniture Store:
"... Nenny, who is stupider..."

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a) Esperanza's Identity vs. Gender Restrictions
b) Chapter 4 - My Name: page 10
The exposition of the conflict within this chapter revolves around Esperanza wanting to be independent, but feels that her name is tying her down to sadness and entrapment like her great-grandmother trapped and looking out the window.  For, people knew her great-grandmother to be a, "wild horse of a woman", thus Esperanza understands that being a strong person is good, but a strong woman is looked down upon in her society.  From there on, the rising action for the conflict of gender restrictions and herself begins.  Esperanza wants to find her own identity, so she desires to change her name to a nickname to be able to detach herself from her given feminine name. She desires to do so to detach herself from the conflicts of the gender restrictions that don't approve of the independence she wants.

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Self vs. society

Pg. 28 of Chapter "Those Who Don't

In this chapter Esperanza talks about how people will go into her neighborhood and be scared. They will lock there doors and look straight ahead of them. This also takes place when she goes into a "neighborhood of another color."

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dreams/hope vs reality
Chapter- Cathy Queen of cats
-Cathy believes that she will one day fly to France to go meet her great great distant grand cousin
Chapter- Marin
-Marin hopes that by next year when she a job downtown, someone in the subway will marry her and take her away to live in a big house

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"conflicts" can be momentary ones which are quickly resolved, positively or negatively (ex:  Angel vs. Gravity is introduced suddenly, then ends swiftly, and tragically).  However, other conflicts appear early and are addressed in one form or another throughout the text (ex: Boys vs. Girls, Men vs. Women).  If a conflict starts early, appears frequently, and ends late, it's probably a major conflict.  And the more complex its development (it shows up in a variety of ways, with a lot of different implications) it's a really interesting, central conflict worth studying.  See if you can take momentary conflicts and use them to identify major ones.

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noun vs. noun

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noun phrase vs. noun phrase