https://padlet.com/717237/ykx0zwpitsvbwir7 Akayla Kiefer, Alex Kagan, Hannah Eggenschwiler en-us 2021-02-22 18:15:21 UTC 2024-10-30 09:24:15 UTC hello@padlet.com 638076 https://padlet.com/717237/ykx0zwpitsvbwir7/wish/1232311634 "Someday I will have a best friend all of my own. One I can tell my secrets to. One who will understand my jokes without my having to explain them. Until then, I am a red balloon, a balloon tied to an anchor" (9). Boys and Girls

The significance to the theme is that Esperanza yearns for a close friend, one that she feels she can get along with and actually likes her for her. Throughout the novel readers can note that Esperanza longs to feel like she belongs, and have a friend that is not her sister. The last sentence, where she compares herself being tied down to an anchor, is an accurate description of the emotions she is feeling with Nenny. Nenny is her only real "friend", but she doesn't count because it's her sister. ]]> 2021-02-23 16:28:58 UTC https://padlet.com/717237/ykx0zwpitsvbwir7/wish/1232311634 638076 https://padlet.com/717237/ykx0zwpitsvbwir7/wish/1232360472 "If you give me five dollars I will be your friend forever...Five dollars is cheap since I don't have any friends except Cathy who is only my friend till Tuesday...but I like them. Their clothes are crooked and old. They are wearing shiny Sunday shoes without socks. It makes their bald ankles all red, but I like them" (14-15). Our Good Day

In this quote, we see that Esperanza is contributing money to buy a bike, but also is making new friends. Since Cathy will only be friends with her until she moves away, she sees that there are other girls like her and Nenny that will be their friends if they pitch in to buy a bike that they can all share. This goes along with the theme as we see Esperanza found a group that she can be apart of and feel like she belongs. 

]]> 2021-02-23 16:37:08 UTC https://padlet.com/717237/ykx0zwpitsvbwir7/wish/1232360472 717237 https://padlet.com/717237/ykx0zwpitsvbwir7/wish/1232390947 "Someday I will have a best friend all my own. One I can tell my secrets to. One who will understand my jokes without having to explain them. Until then I am a red balloon, a balloon tied to an anchor"(9).]]> 2021-02-23 16:42:29 UTC https://padlet.com/717237/ykx0zwpitsvbwir7/wish/1232390947 638076 https://padlet.com/717237/ykx0zwpitsvbwir7/wish/1232417059 "Look at that house, I said, it looks like Mexico. Rachel and Lucy look at me like I'm crazy, but before long they can let out a laugh, Nenny says: Yes, that's Mexico all right. That's what I was thinking exactly" (18). Laughter

In vignettes previous to this, such as Boys and Girls, we see that Esperanza wants a friend other than her sister. Now, she has other friends - Rachel and Lucy. In this chapter Esperanza makes an out-of-the-blue remark, and Rachel and Lucy don't get it, but Nenny does. Readers can note here that Nenny seems to be the loyal sister, that is there to support Esperanza in her different remarks and make her feel that she is not stupid in saying these things. 

]]> 2021-02-23 16:47:06 UTC https://padlet.com/717237/ykx0zwpitsvbwir7/wish/1232417059 717237 https://padlet.com/717237/ykx0zwpitsvbwir7/wish/1232428834 "Look at that house, I said, it looks like Mexico. Rachel and Lucy look at me like I'm crazy, but before they can let out a laugh, Nenny says: Yes, that's Mexico all right. That's what I was thinking exactly"(18).]]> 2021-02-23 16:49:10 UTC https://padlet.com/717237/ykx0zwpitsvbwir7/wish/1232428834 717237 https://padlet.com/717237/ykx0zwpitsvbwir7/wish/1232484266 "That one? she said, pointing to a row of ugly three-flats, the ones even the raggedy men are ashamed to go into. Yes I nodded even though I knew that wasn't my house and started to cry"(45).]]> 2021-02-23 16:58:41 UTC https://padlet.com/717237/ykx0zwpitsvbwir7/wish/1232484266 638076 https://padlet.com/717237/ykx0zwpitsvbwir7/wish/1260039346 "The boys and girls live in seperate worlds. The boys in their own universe and we in ours." 

This metaphor is comparing the feelings that Esperanza feels toward her male siblings, and other male figures. She reflects that disconnect by saying they "live on seperate worlds", even though that is virtually impossible (in the present). ]]> 2021-03-02 18:35:28 UTC https://padlet.com/717237/ykx0zwpitsvbwir7/wish/1260039346 717237 https://padlet.com/717237/ykx0zwpitsvbwir7/wish/1260049568 A deliberate repetition of a word or phrase

"Cathy who is queen of cats and cats and cats. Baby cats, big cats, skinny cats, sick cats. Cats asleep like little donuts. Cats on top of the refrigerator. Cats taking a walk on the dinner table. Her house is like cat heaven"(13).

]]> 2021-03-02 18:37:11 UTC https://padlet.com/717237/ykx0zwpitsvbwir7/wish/1260049568 638076 https://padlet.com/717237/ykx0zwpitsvbwir7/wish/1261345918 DIction refers to the type of words and phrasing an author uses.

"No speak English, she says to the child who is singing in the language that sounds like tin. No speak English, no speak English, and bubbles into tears. No, no, no, as if she can't believe her ears" (78). No Speak English

This is an example of diction as it shows Mamacita's accent, and clues the readers to where she is from. Because the author incorporated Mamacita's way of speaking into this vignette, it adds to the theme of her only knowing a few English words and not wanting to speak another language. 

]]> 2021-03-03 00:39:33 UTC https://padlet.com/717237/ykx0zwpitsvbwir7/wish/1261345918 638076 https://padlet.com/717237/ykx0zwpitsvbwir7/wish/1261409215 A simile is a comparison using "like" or "as".

"...and wishes there were sweeter drinks, not like an empty room, but sweet sweet like the island, like the dance hall down the street where women much older than her throw green eyes easily like dice and open homes with keys" (80).  Rafaela Who Drinks Papaya Juice on Tuesdays

These similes are comparing the sweetness of the drinks Rafaela is drinking, to the sweetness of things in life, like dancing and islands. This is showing readers that what Rafaela wants is a life where she can experience more sweetness that what she gets out of her coconut and papaya juice. ]]> 2021-03-03 00:57:59 UTC https://padlet.com/717237/ykx0zwpitsvbwir7/wish/1261409215 638076 https://padlet.com/717237/ykx0zwpitsvbwir7/wish/1283657845 A hyperbole is an exaggerated statement or claim that is not meant to be taken literally.

"I have science on my side. The bones just one day open. Just like that" (50). 

This is an example of a hyperbole because it's obviously an exaggeration. You bones don't just "open" when you are going through puberty, although they appear to do that. The bones gradually grows larger, but by the description that Esperanza is using she is exaggerating how one day they just bloom. Even with similar things when you age, you don't just change overnight, you gradually change, but she is exaggerating that change. ]]> 2021-03-08 18:12:40 UTC https://padlet.com/717237/ykx0zwpitsvbwir7/wish/1283657845 639013 https://padlet.com/717237/ykx0zwpitsvbwir7/wish/1283681158 The theme of friendship and belonging is an important theme in the novel The House on Mango Street. For someone like Esperanza, who feels very isolated and lonely, making new friends becomes an urgent and persistent goal for her. For example, in the vignette "Our Good Day," Esperanza sacrifices her friendship with Cathy by pitching in for a bike that she will share with her new friends, Lucy and Rachel. Cathy does not want Esperanza to be friends with Lucy and Rachel, but Esperanza knows that  Cathy is not really a real friend and Lucy and Rachel are. 

]]> 2021-03-08 18:16:33 UTC https://padlet.com/717237/ykx0zwpitsvbwir7/wish/1283681158 638076 https://padlet.com/717237/ykx0zwpitsvbwir7/wish/1283712016 The theme of "Friendship and Belonging" is a prominent one throughout this novel. As Esperanza grows throughout the novel, she creates new friends and leaves old ones behind. One of her first friends on Mango Street was Cathy, but this cat lover would only be her friend until Tuesday, when Cathy was going to move out (13). Esperanza later ditched Cathy for two new friends, Rachel and Lucy, who she felt she belonged more with and clicked with better. In the vignette Our Good Day, Esperanza notes that she liked their "crooked and old" clothes, and their ""shiny Sunday shoes without socks" (14-15). Esperanza is developing here as she realizes she can find people who she feels more comfortable with and knows won't judge her and her circumstances. As Esperanza grows with her two other friends and sister Nenny, she realizes that there is more to life than feeling like an outsider, and that she can find for herself what it is like to truly belong. ]]> 2021-03-08 18:22:03 UTC https://padlet.com/717237/ykx0zwpitsvbwir7/wish/1283712016 638076 https://padlet.com/717237/ykx0zwpitsvbwir7/wish/1283765103 Has there ever been a time in your life when you have felt like Esperanza? Where you wanted desperately to fit in, and cared too much about other people's opinion?]]> 2021-03-08 18:31:24 UTC https://padlet.com/717237/ykx0zwpitsvbwir7/wish/1283765103 717237 https://padlet.com/717237/ykx0zwpitsvbwir7/wish/1283773998 The speaker talks about how belonging is the start of how to find your true happiness. You will go through life and there will be good and bad relationships but you ultimately get to decide the path that you choose. Just like Just like Esperanza trying to search for her true belonging while losing and gaining relations.]]> 2021-03-08 18:33:02 UTC https://padlet.com/717237/ykx0zwpitsvbwir7/wish/1283773998 638076 https://padlet.com/717237/ykx0zwpitsvbwir7/wish/1283775949 The theme of Friendship and Belonging in this novel is another way of describing the different emotions that Esperanza is feeling as she is growing up on Mango Street, and creating new friends. As she finds these friends, young and old, she also finds out things about herself. While it is important to Esperanza and is crucial, I feel it is important to me as well. As she did, I went through a stage in my life where all I wanted was to belong, and to have people's approval. I remember in middle school, the toughest time for me in that topic, I wanted to be in a sport so I could be a "popular kid". What I realize now is that all of that doesn't matter — what matters the most is how you present yourself and how much you value your own self-worth. There is a lot of toxicity in this culture among the younger generations, where it seems you have to fit into some group to be able to "belong". ]]> 2021-03-08 18:33:22 UTC https://padlet.com/717237/ykx0zwpitsvbwir7/wish/1283775949 717237 https://padlet.com/717237/ykx0zwpitsvbwir7/wish/1304342660 The speaker talks about finding the right friends will help you in your future life. It will show you lessons that you wouldn't have learned if they didn't come in my mind. Just like how esperanza wouldn't have experienced what happened to her if it wasn't for sally. Even though that experience was awful it showed her what life was really like.]]> 2021-03-12 21:15:14 UTC https://padlet.com/717237/ykx0zwpitsvbwir7/wish/1304342660 717237 https://padlet.com/717237/ykx0zwpitsvbwir7/wish/1304372895 The theme of friendship and belonging in the book, "The house on mango street" Shows the reader how much friendship and belonging evolved Esperanza into a mature adult. Having a friendship is important in learning new things and experiencing new life lessons. I personally have gone through so many friendships. Some of them good and some of them bad. But I don't regret not having those bad friendships. It has made me learn so much. Esperanza also tries to find where she belongs . I always have wondered where I belong or where I fit in and I still haven't found it yet but maybe just like Esperanza, once I grow up and fully mature I'll find who I am as a person.]]> 2021-03-12 21:29:24 UTC https://padlet.com/717237/ykx0zwpitsvbwir7/wish/1304372895 717237 https://padlet.com/717237/ykx0zwpitsvbwir7/wish/1304393229 Have you ever had a bad friend experience but then in the end it ultimately taught you some important lessons that helped you in the future?]]> 2021-03-12 21:39:10 UTC https://padlet.com/717237/ykx0zwpitsvbwir7/wish/1304393229 638076 https://padlet.com/717237/ykx0zwpitsvbwir7/wish/1311633898 This video explores the importance of friendship and how we friends to grow as people. We also learn important things from friends that we couldn't otherwise. ]]> 2021-03-15 16:33:35 UTC https://padlet.com/717237/ykx0zwpitsvbwir7/wish/1311633898 638076 https://padlet.com/717237/ykx0zwpitsvbwir7/wish/1311651835 This painting/art work shows two women sitting together, presumably discussing things on their mind. Part of the importance of friendship is being able to have someone to confide in. As Esperanza grows in life, she finds more friends that she can feel like she truly belongs with, and who she can confide in. ]]> 2021-03-15 16:36:50 UTC https://padlet.com/717237/ykx0zwpitsvbwir7/wish/1311651835 638076 https://padlet.com/717237/ykx0zwpitsvbwir7/wish/1311700308 Esperanza, Rachel, Nenny, and Lucy are running in their high heels that they borrow from their neighbor. These shoes and them running represent the friendship and connect that they gained from this moment. By laughing together and experiencing this thrill together they are able to connect more and be better friends. ]]> 2021-03-15 16:45:30 UTC https://padlet.com/717237/ykx0zwpitsvbwir7/wish/1311700308 638076 https://padlet.com/717237/ykx0zwpitsvbwir7/wish/1312473695 "Windows so small you'd think they were holding their breath."

This quote is an example of personification as Esperanza is giving the windows a human characteristic of being able to breathe. She is also comparing their smallness to someone that wants to suck in all their air to save room. ]]> 2021-03-15 19:15:37 UTC https://padlet.com/717237/ykx0zwpitsvbwir7/wish/1312473695 638076 https://padlet.com/717237/ykx0zwpitsvbwir7/wish/1312498615 Major situational irony in the novel is when Esperanza's family desperately wants to move into a better place, a home that they feel safe and secure in, but end up living on the house on Mango Street. They later realize that this house on Mango Street is not as safe and secure as they wanted.  In the vignette The House on Mango Street, readers can see that Esperanza describes what her parents promised their family, a house "running water and pipes that worked", but they ended up with the opposite of what they wanted. ]]> 2021-03-15 19:21:41 UTC https://padlet.com/717237/ykx0zwpitsvbwir7/wish/1312498615 638076 https://padlet.com/717237/ykx0zwpitsvbwir7/wish/1312522495 The biggest symbol in the novel is the house itself, as it represents freedom and confinement, and fantasy versus reality. Firstly it represents freedom and confinement as Esperanza desperately wants to be free of this world on Mango Street, and live her own fantastic life with "running water and working pipes". This ties into confinement as she feels she is trapped her on this street, but knows eventually she will make it out, unlike many of her neighbors. The house also represents fantasy vs. reality as again, Esperanza wants a fantasy house that her parents promised her while she is denied that and has to face reality and her current situation. ]]> 2021-03-15 19:27:55 UTC https://padlet.com/717237/ykx0zwpitsvbwir7/wish/1312522495 638076 https://padlet.com/717237/ykx0zwpitsvbwir7/wish/1312539788 An example of dramatic irony is when Esperanza's mother said: 

"I could have been somebody but I dropped out of high school because of my clothes...I was a smart cookie then."

This is an example of dramatic irony as the speaker is meaning the opposite of what she is saying. She may be saying that she is actually not a smart cookie, and that she is dumb for dropping out of school for something as small as clothing. ]]> 2021-03-15 19:32:34 UTC https://padlet.com/717237/ykx0zwpitsvbwir7/wish/1312539788 638076 https://padlet.com/717237/ykx0zwpitsvbwir7/wish/1313026515 Aunt Lupe tells Esperanza to keep writing, as words will keep her "free". Esperanza didn't know what this meant, but readers do. This is an example of dramatic irony for that exact reason, that the narrator doesn't know something when the readers do. This is a sign that Esperanza is too young to understand more difficult concepts. ]]> 2021-03-15 22:30:55 UTC https://padlet.com/717237/ykx0zwpitsvbwir7/wish/1313026515 638076 https://padlet.com/717237/ykx0zwpitsvbwir7/wish/1313035406 From the vignette The Monkey Garden, Esperanza describes the people who lived in the monkey garden previously as having "yakkety-yak" voices. This is an examples of onomatopoeia as it looks exactly as it sounds. The people she is describing are from Kentucky, so she is probably sounding out their accents. ]]> 2021-03-15 22:35:35 UTC https://padlet.com/717237/ykx0zwpitsvbwir7/wish/1313035406 717237 https://padlet.com/717237/ykx0zwpitsvbwir7/wish/1315036279 This is a link to a website that shows an what it feels like to belong and what it feels like to not belong. There is a group activity to show you that difference.]]> 2021-03-16 11:31:39 UTC https://padlet.com/717237/ykx0zwpitsvbwir7/wish/1315036279