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The garden acts as if it keep things in control of Esperanza's life. When escaping with the help of the monkey, this story vividly represents Esperanza's view that good came come from chaos. For example, when the money was found. When Esperanza says, "This is where I wanted to die and where I tried one day..." It gives the reader a sense that Esperanza feels comfortable enough in that place to want to stay there for life.

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Esperanza is reflecting to the beginning of the story. She's basically dreaming, wanting to live in a better home and leave Mango street to go somewhere that she can call her own.

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Esperanza tells a story of how she belonged to a house that she didn't belong to. She physically belonged to the house and her family, but on the inside, she didn't feel like it was her home.

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Esperanza really wants a place of her own, where she doesn't have to worry about what is happening around her. She can be alone.

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Esperanza tried to will herself to death in an overgrown part of the monkey garden, but she said it didn't want her. She doesn't quite understand herself.

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Esperanza relates to the skinny trees, because they are living in rough conditions, and are looked down upon. She feels similarly, and realizes how the trees still have strength in the midst of their difficulties.

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The monkey garden provided Esperanza with a place to escape. She had many monumental childhood memory there, and even experienced dark events at the setting. This allowed her imagination to spread, but as she grows up she begins to see how corrupt the garden really is.

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People view the sky as a safe place. When Darius sees God in one of the clouds, it shows that he knows God will comfort and keep him safe.

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This story really represents ownership. Esperanza in the first story first said how she wanted a home of her own and this story mostly connects to that dream.

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Esperanza wants to leave Mango Street and go somewhere of her own. She wants to let go and be free.

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The trees survive and they keep each other alive even though they aren't in the best place to survive. Esperanza looks at the trees when she feels like she isn't good enough and decided she can live and move on.

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Esperanza likes to tell stories about her life and write. She writes about her worries and it helps them. She likes her house on Mango Street but she say that one day she will leave. She can't stay there forever.

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People make assumptions about Esperanza's family just because of their skin color, and she doesn't appreciate it. When they travel into a neighborhood of another skin color, they take as many precautions as they can to keep from getting into conflict.

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Esperanza wants to leave her house, but isn't able to even rid its memory from her mind. However, she says that she is too strong for the house to hold her there forever, and someday she will get away from it.

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When she is at her home she feels safe because it is quiet. "a space for myself to go"

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Esperanza likes to write stories, and writing them helps her feel better. She also wants to leave Mango because she doesn't belong, but she doesn't want to leave the ones she loves.

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This story connects Esperanza's childhood to her adult self, giving a sense of closure. It illustrates her dream to become a writer, and eventually come back for the impoverished when she's more financially stable and do what others could not do for her.

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She is tired of having to deal and belong, she wants to be alone. She dreams leaving Mango St to do what she wants .

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This story shows many stereotypical points of views, for example, when people enter their neighborhood they enter scared. Assuming people will attack them with knives and are "dangerous" people when really they aren't.

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She speaks of having her own house. She doesn't have to worry about anyone else and she has plenty of space for herself.

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Esperanza says that she wants a house that belongs only to her, not to anyone else. She wants the peace and relaxation that comes with living alone.

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The garden was an escape from reality for her. Now that the boys are here, it has been taken away from her, and not even the garden wants her. She wants to die

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Esperanze compares her name to many translations and talks about how it is inherited by her great-grandmother. She talks about how she wishes she could change her name, and about how kids at her school pronounce her name wrong, saying "the syllables were made out of tin and hurt the roof of your mouth".

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Esperanza sees the Four Skinny Trees as something she related to, because they seem weak, but they hold unknown strengths. Whenever Esperanza is feeling weak, she reminds herself that the trees grow even in the most difficult conditions.

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Esperanza doesn't feel like she belongs. She wants to, but she can't stay on Mango Street because she doesn't feel safe and comfortable. We could interpret that this also means she is uncomfortable in her childhood.

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The Cordeo's have big dreams of what they want but they don't have anything like that. Esperanza feels fortunate to even have shelter so when the nun came her asking her where she lived and the nun freaked out, it made her think that her family was nothing.

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1. The garden is Esperanza's home for her imagination. She feels free. The garden is magical to her. She gets embarrassed after an incident and the garden is no longer her place.

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At the start she liked she garden, she liked going there and playing with her friends. After some bad experiences she feels distant from the garden. She even wills her heart to stop beating.

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Esperanza loved to use a large garden as an escape from reality and to play with her friends. However, after a series of events, the garden seems less dear to her, and she didn't want to play there anymore.

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Esperanza wants a house of her own that is fit to live in and where she can live alone in peace with nature.

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People try to make the best out of their situation. Darius looks at the clouds but people see him as a fool who only teases girls.

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Esperanza wants her own pace where she can be alone be herself. She feels like a nobody in her family of 6, she wants her own house.

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The sky is seen as a sort of safeplace. Darius sees God in the clouds, representing that he sees God to be a part of his safeplace in life.

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Esperanza wants a new name because she feels that hers doesn't represent anything meaningful. Her great-grandmother was treated like she didn't have feelings, and Esperanza doesn't want to go down that same trail.

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She wants to live in ways that she wants to, in a place that she feels confident and comfortable.

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Esperanza likes to play in the monkey garden. One day, Sally's keys get stolen and she has to kiss some boys to get them back. Esperanza feels this isn't right, and when no one wants to do anything about it, she runs away and cries. The monkey garden doesn't seem like a fun place to play anymore. She was once playful and innocent, but now she has seen the world she can't bear it, but she can't go back to ignorance.

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It's very descriptive and the reader can vividly see the garden in their minds. They way it is described makes it seem fantastical in a sense. The monkey left a while ago, and after they left, the garden grew in on itself. It is mentioned to be covering the bricks, which
highlights that nature is wild, and we often forget that. Esperanza feels strange there, especially because she is uncomfortable with Sally's game. She tries to become part of the monkey garden, but it doesn't accept her. She doesn't come back. She leaves her childhood there along with the rest of the things the garden has swallowed.

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It reflects her dreams to have a house of her own where she can live her life to her own accord.

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Her confusion of growing up in a place she felt she belonged realizes she doesn't makes her mind wonder. She tells about her dreams and how she stood out when wanting to fit in.

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She reflects on childhood memories of a seemingly magical garden and how she wanted to die there. She reminisces that the garden would swallow everything and forget about them. Esperanza struggled with being a child and not understanding people.

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Sometimes you can get tired of wishing for something you can't have, even though you still long to have it. You can be drained by pretending you are happy in a situation that you are not actually happy in. She talks about how when she has her own house, she will let bums live in that attic, because she knows how it is to not have a house. Many people who help others do so because they are inspired by their past situations.

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Esperanza wants to escape mango. She does not believes she belongs there. She believes that mango will let her go and she will be able to move on and reach her dream. She says people will not know she left to show them that you can leave and find better.

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Esperanza has hopes and dreams of living in a nice house. Towards the end, a lady walks by while Esperanza is out playing, and she makes Esperanza feel low. She makes her feel shameful about her home.

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The Four Skinny Trees remind Esperanza to continue growing despite the challenges. The trees are a form of inspiration for her and something Esperanza can personally connect to.

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The message I came across was safety and security because of moving around so much. She feels she is ready to leave this life behind.

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The garden to Esperanza was her home away from home and let her imagination run wild. She was free to be a kid. When she gets embarrassed she runs and doesn't feel safe in the garden anymore.

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This vignette talks about how once the monkey leaves, the entire garden falls apart. Sometimes one person or thing is supporting more than they know, and changing one thing can cause a multitude of issues that no one expected.

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I think that Esperanza finds comfort in the trees because they seem out of place, and they are still growing. She also feels out of place, and she believes that they teach her things, and when she is "too sad and too skinny" they simply let her sit and rest.

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The message Esperanza gives us is how she craves freedom. She wants her own house where she can be herself and not have to be something she doesn't want to be.

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She is talking about how she wants to escape the control of others, but still wants to come back for those she loves. She is looking for a way to escape the norms of society and just be who she wants to be with who she wants to be with.

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Darius speaks of finding God in nature. He sees God in the clouds, and he, as well as the narrator, believes that the sky is an almost magical feature in creation.

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Esperanza finds something that relates to her. I like how she mentions that the trees symbolize to her strength.

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When the text says "Four who do not belong here but are here". Esperanza doesn't want to live the life that she does. She likes and relates to the trees because it's hard for her to get out of the situation they were in. Just like the trees, they grew around concrete and still managed to prosper.

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The clouds provide a sense of calamity and escape for the children that they can't seem to find in their everyday lives.

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People that go to Esperanza's neighborhood are often scared. They think that the people who live there are dangerous. When Esperanza's family drives into a neighborhood of another color, they are scared.

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She says she wants a house of her own, that doesn't belong to anyone else. What she really wants is the freedom to be herself and not be controlled by someone else.

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This vignette shows when Esperanza is surprised that Darius actually says something that makes sense.

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Esperanza relates to the trees because she feels out of place and that she has had to deal with conditions that she shouldn't have too.

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Esperanza compares herself to four skinny trees. She compares her body to them. Then she gets deeper into the meaning is why she is like them. There strength is secret like her own and she has so much power like the roots. She believes the tree don't belong just like her. She feels misplaced but when she needs something to keep her going it's the trees she looks too.

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Esperanza is comparing herself and people who understand her to trees. She may be small and weak, but she is string on the inside. "Their strength is secret." The "trees" also use each other for strength when they are sad.

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Esperanza describes the raggedy trees outside, saying that they make look skinny but are surprisingly strong. She says that she is like the trees; she uses the trees to motivate herself to push on through all of her "bricks"/ challenges.

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Esperanza talks about how she is tired of people making generalizations about her family because of their ethnicity. She describes how she feels fear when she is in a neighborhood of another color.

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Esperanza wants to change her name. It makes her stand out, and it sounds foreign on other people's tongues. She recalls her great-grandmother, and how she was called Esperanza as well. We can understand more about the narrator's identity by the way that she talks about her ancestors.

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Esperanza relates to the 4 skinny trees because she is skinny too. The trees and Esperanza do not belong where they are. She gets inspiration from the trees because they grow despite concrete. They have a hidden strength, their strong roots beneath the ground.

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The way this vignette could be used to describe so many places really resonates with the reader. I found it to be judging at its finest.

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Whenever she feels down or unworthy, she looks to the trees, which she feels represent her and her situation. She says the tree don't belong where they are, but are still much stronger than they appear.

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Esperanza's neighborhood is stereotyped as dangerous by outsiders, who are fearful of it. Esperanza and her family don't fear their own neighborhood, but fear the neighborhoods around who stereotype them.

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The characters are trying to be optimistic and make the best of their situation. They are trying to find beauty in their pain.

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Esperanza doesn't feel that her name makes her fit into society. She is happy she inherits her name from her great-grandmother, but doesn't want to follow the same sadness that came with it.

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Her parents told her that one day they would live in a beautiful house, but they've lived in so many, she's doubting whether or not that will really happen. At the end, she says that people keep telling her they are just living on Mango Street for a little while, but she knows that's not true.

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Esperanza and her family make the most out of what they have even though they may not have much, if anything.

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Esperanza and her siblings find joy in the sky because it is a piece of beauty in a ugly place.

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This vignette talks about how out of place people can feel once they leave their comfort zone. When you are in a situation where you feel comfortable, you are confident enough to be yourself, however once you leave your comfort zone, it is much harder and takes much more courage to be yourself.

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They are just trying to make things better and look optimistic. The text reads "Still we take what we can get and make the best it"

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Esperanza says that they don't see many beautiful things, but they make the most of what they get. She says that Darius, who is usually stupid, said something smart when he looked at the sky and pointed out a cloud and said that it was God. Darius was trying to be optimistic and trying to make the most out of a cloudy day.

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Esperanza likes the sky, and says that one can never have too much sky. The sky keeps one safe when they are sad, but Esperanza's neighborhood doesn't have enough sky or anything else beautiful. When Darius, who was usually a fool, was looking up at the sky, he saw a big fat pillowy cloud and said that it was God.

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In the beginning we see how important the sky is. How it comforts the narrator. We get introduced to Darius who is considered to be stupid and a fool. But Darius say's something that surprisingly is smart. He talks about the sky and points out god in the clouds.

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The narrator describes her life of moving around and all of the places she once has been. Once they finally found a house for them she would finally feel at home.

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Esperanza is talking about how she feels she can't escape her name. She wants to have a name that feels more like her, where she doesn't feel she needs to live up to her name.

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Esperanza is not proud of her name because she feels as though she cannot truly express herself with it. However, she is proud of her namesake, her great grandmother, and wishes to be like her great grandmother in her younger years, wild and free.

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The narrator describes how much she moved around throughout her life and how she just wanted a "real house." She wanted that sense of comfort that comes from not being ashamed of where you live or what you have.

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Esperanza mentions about how when she goes to a neighborhood of different skin color, they are assumed to be something horrible and not safe outside of their car.

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This vignette discusses the prejudice Esperanza has in her neighborhood. "They think we're dangerous." She says that people who aren't from her neighborhood don't like them cause they are different. But Esperanza and her family and friends feel safe in the neighborhood because they are all the same.

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Esperanza talks about how stupid people are scared when they drive into her neighborhood. However, she then says that she and her family are scared when they drive into a neighborhood with people of another color as well. This is odd, as the people in those neighborhoods might see her as stupid.

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Esperanza feels that she cannot be around people of a different race. She reflects on people assumptions of her and her neighborhood.

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Esperanza talks about how her race gets stereotyped as dangerous. She explains who these people are and how they are not dangerous. Then she tells us how her race stereotyped other colored races and roll there windows up for their "safety".

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At the beginning of the story, Esperanza refers to her name in a negative way. She says later that she would like to change her name. As we read further down, we discover that she does not what to live the life of the woman she was named after.

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Outsiders who come into Esperanza's neighborhood are scared, and think her family will attack them with shiny knives. In reality, the people in Esperanza's are nice non-white people. Esperanza also talks about how she gets scared when she goes into a white neighborhood.

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She feels discontent with her name and her house. She feels that nobody sees the real Esperanza. Esperanza also feels that she can't be herself because of expectations in her culture.

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When Esperanza describes herself, she shades her name by calling her it "sadness" and it's a muddy color. This shows her discontent with her name and her life.

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Esperanza talks about how her grandmother was taken away by her grandfather and sat by a window feeling sad for the rest of her life. Esperanza thinks that her name sounds odd, and she wants to change it. She thinks that her name is ugly, and wants to change it to something that suits her more.

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Esperanza goes on about how much she dislikes her name. The name she inherited from her grandmother. She feels like the name is made out as an ugly name that gives her little power. Though Esperanza inherits her grandmothers name she does not want to inherit the place at the window with her grandma sat with sadness.

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She recounts her great-grandmother and wishes she could have met her. She tells about how she inherited the name Esperanza from her great-grandmother. She doesn't think her name in english is very pretty so she wishes she had a different name.

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Esparanza's name means hope, but it is long and hard to pronounce for most English-speaking people. She wishes for a name like Lisandra, Maritza, or Zeze the X.

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The narrator describes the amount of times she moved throughout her life, and how she wanted to settle down in a "real" house. She described the dilapidated house on Mango Street and talked about how she wished to leave it soon.

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Esperanza and her family have moved a lot. None of the houses they've lived in are really fit to live in. Esperanza and her family dream of a real house that is fit to live in, but know they will probably never get that house because they are Mexican-American. Esperanza is embaressed of the houses she has lived in.

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Esperanza wants to stay in a nice house but her family cannot find one. She is tired of living in poor old houses, she wants a house she can be proud of.

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The narrator is talking about how she and her family are always moving from house to house. She also talks about the current house he lives in now, which is small and dilapidated. She talks of her dream house; a nice white house with a lawn and multiple washrooms. She is embarrassed, and she would feel more normal if she had a nicer house. This describes the dream the narrator has.

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The story is very focused on a different perspective of the impoverished families living in the communities. It also sets up the vision that the narrator has for their dream life.

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I think that when they keep repeating the word, "there" it really shows how Esperanza feels like she doesn't have anything. It also makes her home feel less valuable.