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Answer 1

What are Marin's values?

Esperanza admires Marin because "she is older and knows lots of things" (27). Marin is worldly, and flaunts a sense of sexuality that the younger girls are only beginning to discover. Marin also has dreams of escaping Mango Street, and appears to the others to have options which will allow her to do that. She has a boyfriend in Puerto Rico, whom she plans to marry when she goes back, and if she stays in Chicago another year, she will "get a real job downtown...(where) you always get to look beautiful and get to wear nice clothes and can meet someone in the subway who might marry you and take you to live in a big house far away"(26).

Answer 2

yes that is a good answer

Answer 3

How do outsiders perceive Esperanza's neighborhood?

Esperanza describes the people who come into her neighborhood and are afraid. They think everyone there is dangerous, and will “attack them with shiny knives” (28). Esperanza and the other children of Mango Street aren’t afraid, because they know the people who look so dangerous to outsiders, like Davey’s crooked-eyed brother, and the tall man with the hat, and the mentally disabled Eddie V. However, Esperanza does admit that when she goes to a neighborhood “of another color” (28) she gets scared too.

Answer 4

id put that she decribes them as being afraid

Answer 5

Esperanza describes the people who come into her neighborhood and are afraid.

Answer 6

that is what i put. Esperanza describes the people who come into her neighborhood afraid.

Answer 7

'afraid'

Answer 8

right?

Answer 9

describes the people who come into her neighbor hood as being afraid

Answer 10

Esperanza describes the people who come into her neighborhood as being ‘afraid’. They think everyone there is dangerous, and will “attack them with shiny knives” (28). Esperanza and the other children of Mango Street aren’t afraid, because they know the people who look so dangerous to outsiders, like Davey’s crooked-eyed brother, and the tall man with the hat, and the mentally disabled Eddie V. However, Esperanza does admit that when she goes to a neighborhood “of another color” (28) she gets scared too.

Answer 11

better?

Answer 12

yes perfect

Answer 13

I dont know what to do for the next one :(

Answer 14

which one is it

Answer 15

which is the next question

Answer 16

What is Esperanza's opinion of the Vargas family?

Esperanza describes the Vargas kids, whom she described earlier as being bad. Esperanza says “They are bad, those Vargases” (29). They have a single mother, Rosa Vargas, who is overwhelmed by and unable to control her many children, and who is still sad about the fact that their father left her without a note or any money to help. The children don’t care about themselves or anybody else. Esperanza describes it as “without respect for all things living, including themselves” (29). At first the people in the neighborhood feel bad for the children and try to make them stop misbehaving, but eventually the people become tired of trying and stop caring. They don’t care when the children hurt themselves, even when Angel Vargas falls from a great height and dies.

Answer 17

Esperanza describes the Vargas kids, whom she described earlier as being bad. Esperanza says “They are bad, those Vargases” (29). that seems to be the best answer right there the other stuff is extra

Answer 18

-_- it has to be 6-8 sentances. I have to fluff some of it

Answer 19

then your answer is good enough lol

Answer 20

Why does Alicia’s father ignore her comments about the mice?
Alicia has to take care of her family, including her father, while trying to go to school. Alicia’s father says the mice don’t exist, and that Alicia should be sleeping anyway, because it is a woman’s job to wake up early and make tortillas. “Close your eyes and they’ll go away, her father says, or You’re just imagining. She is afraid of the mice, and the mice are really symbols of her economic level. Mice are low on the food chain and the vermin of society, just as Alicia and her family. Alicia does not want to be stuck in the life she has now, feeling small and powerless.

Answer 21

perfect

Answer 22

thank you! that should be it for that section of the book :) i think im done with HOMS for today. Can I tag you tomorrow?

Answer 23

absolutley lol