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“...how can they help it with only one mother who is tired all the time...who cries everyday for the man who left without even..a note explaining how come.” pg.29

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"Rosa Vargas' kids are too many and too much" pg.29

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"But that night he comes back and sends a big rock through the window. Then he is sorry and she opens the door again" pg.85

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"Next week she comes over black and blue and asks what she can do?" pg.85

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“He never hits me hard.” pg.92

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"She has many troubles, but the big one is her husband who left and keeps leaving Pg.85

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“ ...and Rafaela wishes she could go there and dance before she gets old.” pg.79

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“And then Rafaela, who is still young but getting old from leaning out the window so much, gets locked indoors because her husband is afraid Rafaela will run away since she is too beautiful to look out.” pg.79

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“Rafaela leans out the window and leans on her elbow and dreams her hairs is like Rapunzel's.”

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“...without the whole world waiting for you to make a mistake when all you wanted, all you wanted, Sally, was to love and to love and to love and to love and no one could call that crazy.” pg. 83

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“Sally, do you sometimes wish you didn’t have to go home?’ pg.82

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“ Is afraid of nothing except four-legged fur. And fathers. “ pg. 32

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“Is a good girl...studies all night and sees the mice, the ones her father say do not exist.” pg.32

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“You don’t laugh, Sally. You look at your feet and walk fast to the house you can’t come out from.” pg.82

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“Close your eyes, and they’ll go away, her father says, or You’re just imagining.” pg.31

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Alicia is strong, caring for her siblings, and a hard working student who is afraid of "four-legged creature and fathers."

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Esperanza is the narrator/writer in the novel, a Mexican-American girl, and she wishes for a home away from Mango Street