I find myself re reading this book at least once a year and my favorite vignette is called bums in the attic i have re typed it below.
House on mango street bums in the attic.
Esperanazas father s job is landscaping.
Me being over ambitious decided to read the house on mango street and write my paper about mexican assimilation in the united states.
I named this blog after a chapter in it called four skinny trees perhaps someday i ll post that chapter.
She will keep bums because she knows how it is to be without a house.
Esperanza says that once she has the house of her dreams she will always remember where she came from.
When bums pass by she will invite them in and let them stay in her attic because she knows what it s like to not have a house.
Multi cultural lit project.
Bums in the attic.
On the weekends the family visits these houses and dreams about moving there.
The house on mango street chapter 34 bums in the attic when her family goes to the hills on sundays esperanza never wants to go.
Bums in the attic esperanza wants a nice suburban house with a garden like the ones where her father works.
But for now here is another chapter one of my favorites bums in the attic excerpt from the house on mango street by sandra.
These fantasies are the flip side to the feelings of shame provoked by the run down housing that the characters actually live in.
J calderon p 1 bums in the attic 1.
The house on mango street is my favorite book in the world.
Her guests will think rats are squeaking in the attic but esperanza will happily tell them it s bums.
Espernazas dreams of having her own house and keeping bums in the attic.
She will allow the bums a place in her attic because she knows how it is to be without a house.
And esperanza promises to let bums stay in her attic when she has a nice house of her own.
Her papa teases her for being stuck up and thinking herself too old to go on such family outings.
Bums in the attic from the house on mango street.