https://padlet.com/horwitzs/6jgepqa2guxrbuui Each quote has been chosen from the text because it focuses on the big idea of both identify and role of men and/or women in House on Mango Street. Please choose ONE quote from the text to comment on with your thoughts regarding what you believe this quote is saying regarding one or both of these big ideas AND please write your name on your comment! If someone has already written what you were thinking, please try to comment on another quote OR add something original! en-us 2022-10-12 14:03:41 UTC 2022-10-18 22:41:58 UTC hello@padlet.com horwitzs https://padlet.com/horwitzs/6jgepqa2guxrbuui/wish/2337082918 "Louie's girl cousin is older than us. She lives with Louie's family because her own family is in Puerto Rico. Her name is Marin or Maris or something like that, and she wears dark nylons all the time and lots of makeup she gets free from selling Avon. She can't come out--gotta babysit with Louie's sisters--but she stands in the doorway a lot"]]> 2022-10-12 14:03:41 UTC https://padlet.com/horwitzs/6jgepqa2guxrbuui/wish/2337082918 horwitzs https://padlet.com/horwitzs/6jgepqa2guxrbuui/wish/2337082920 "Marin says that if she stays here next year, she's going to get a real job downtown because that's where the best jobs are, since you always get to look beautiful and get to wear nice clothes and meet someone in the subway who might marry you and take you to live in a big house far away."]]> 2022-10-12 14:03:41 UTC https://padlet.com/horwitzs/6jgepqa2guxrbuui/wish/2337082920 horwitzs https://padlet.com/horwitzs/6jgepqa2guxrbuui/wish/2337082921 "Marin, under the streetlight, dancing by herself, is singing the same song somewhere. I know. Is waiting for a car to stop, a star to fall, someone to change her life."]]> 2022-10-12 14:03:41 UTC https://padlet.com/horwitzs/6jgepqa2guxrbuui/wish/2337082921 horwitzs https://padlet.com/horwitzs/6jgepqa2guxrbuui/wish/2337082923 "But next year Louie's parents are going to send her back to her mother with a letter saying she's too much trouble, and that is too bad because I like Marin. She is older and knows lots of things. She is the one who told us how Davey the Baby's sister got pregnant and what cream is best for taking off mustache hair and if you count the white flecks on your fingernails you can know how many boys are thinking of you and lots of other things I can't remember now."]]> 2022-10-12 14:03:41 UTC https://padlet.com/horwitzs/6jgepqa2guxrbuui/wish/2337082923 horwitzs https://padlet.com/horwitzs/6jgepqa2guxrbuui/wish/2337082924 "We never see Marin until her aunt comes home from work, and even then she can only stay out in front. She is there every night with the radio. When the light in her aunt's room goes out, Marin lights a cigarette and it doesn't matter if it's cold out or if the radio doesn't work or if we've got nothing to say to each other. What matters, Marin says, is for the boys to see us and for us to see them. And since Marin's skirts are shorter and since her eyes are pretty, and since Marin is already older than us in many ways, the boys who do pass by say stupid things like I am in love with those two green apples you call eyes, give them to me why don't you. And Marin just looks at them without even blinking and is not afraid."]]> 2022-10-12 14:03:41 UTC https://padlet.com/horwitzs/6jgepqa2guxrbuui/wish/2337082924 horwitzs https://padlet.com/horwitzs/6jgepqa2guxrbuui/wish/2337082928 "Rosa Vargas' kids are too many and too much. It's not her fault you know, except she is their mother and only one against so many. They are bad those Vargases and how can they help it with only one mother who is tired all the time from buttoning and bottling and babying, and who cries every day for the man who left without even leaving a dollar for bologna or a note explaining how come."]]> 2022-10-12 14:03:41 UTC https://padlet.com/horwitzs/6jgepqa2guxrbuui/wish/2337082928 horwitzs https://padlet.com/horwitzs/6jgepqa2guxrbuui/wish/2337082931 "Close your eyes and they'll go away, her father says, or You're just imagining. And anyway, a woman's place is sleeping so she can wake up early with the tortilla star, the one that appears early just in time to rise and catch the hind legs hide behind the sink, beneath the four-clawed tub, under the swollen floorboards nobody fixes, in the corner of your eyes."]]> 2022-10-12 14:03:41 UTC https://padlet.com/horwitzs/6jgepqa2guxrbuui/wish/2337082931 horwitzs https://padlet.com/horwitzs/6jgepqa2guxrbuui/wish/2337082932 "Alicia, whose mama died, is sorry there is no one older to rise and make the lunchbox tortillas. Alicia, who inherited her mama's rolling pin and sleepiness, is young and smart and studies for the first time at the university. Two trains and a bus, because she doesn't want to spend her whole life in a factory or behind a rolling pin. Is a good girl, my friend, studies all night and sees the mice, the ones her father says do not exist. Is afraid of nothing except four-legged fur. And fathers."]]> 2022-10-12 14:03:41 UTC https://padlet.com/horwitzs/6jgepqa2guxrbuui/wish/2337082932