Question

Read the following excerpt from Sandra Cisnero's 1984 novel, The House on Mango Street. Write one or two sentences to summarize the expression used by Cisnero's character, Esperanza.

In English my name means hope. In Spanish it means too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting. It is like the number nine. A muddy color. It is the Mexican records my father plays on Sunday mornings when he is shaving, songs like sobbing.

It was my great-grandmother’s name and now it is mine. She was a horse woman too, born like me in the Chinese year of the horse—which is supposed to be bad luck if you’re born female—but I think this is a Chinese lie because the Chinese, like the Mexicans, don’t like their women strong.
My great-grandmother. I would've liked to have known her, a wild, horse of a woman, so wild she wouldn't marry.

Answer 1

The house on mango street

Answer 2

Answer: The House on Mango Street" Summary

Set in Humboldt Park, "The House on Mango Street" is a coming-of-age story that shares one year in the life of Esperanza Cordero, a young Chicana struggling with questions of identity. Living in a Latinx neighborhood, Esperanza attempts to come to terms with her surroundings

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