The story opens up with the main character Esperanza describing their house on Mango Street and how they came to live there. Before moving to the house on Mango Street her family live in several other apartments but the last one was on Loomis street which they left after the pipe broke and the landlord would not fix it. In her family there are six people including herself, her parents, her sisters Kiki and Nenny, and her brother Carlos. In the book opening Esperanza struggles with accepting her name because she feels it does not fit her personality. Also because people do not pronounce it the right way when they call her. So, she plays with others names that she feels represents who she is like Lisandra, Maritza, or Zeze. Esperanza had a best friend named Cathy until she moved away. Her new neighbors Rachel and Lucy tells her to invest a dollar in their bike if she wants to ride it. A new family then moves into Cathy's old house by the name of Meme Ortiz and to make extra money Meme's mother rents the basement floor to the louie familiy. After Loiue cousin comes to visit in his new stolen cadillac he gives the neighborhood kids a ride, but ends up speeding away after hearing a cop car.
Quotation
" I would like to baptize myself under a new name, a name more like the real me, the one nobody sees"( Cisneros 11).
Reaction
I feel a great connection with the quote because I sometimes feels the same way. Like my name is not who I am or what is reflected about me. Sometimes after people hear my name the first thing that comes to their minds is like I am Ghetto and uneducated, which is not true. So by Esperanza wanting to change her name, to something more likable basically, she is trying to break the stereotypes that people think about when they hear her name.
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