Mango Street-"Boys and Girls"
The House on Mango Street
Journal Guide for Chapter Three
“Boys & Girls”
Answer the following questions in complete sentences.
Questions:
1. What does the narrator say about the relationship between boys and girls? What evidence does she provide to support this idea?
2. What does the narrator say about her sister? How does this impact their relationship?
3. About what does the narrator dream? What does this say about her?
Quotes:
Explain the significance of the following quotes.
1. The boys and the girls live in separate worlds.
2. Carlos and Kiki are each other’s best friend. . . not ours.
3. Someday I will have a best friend all my own. One I can tell secrets to. One who will understand my jokes without my having to explain them.
4. Until then I am a red balloon, a balloon tied to an anchor.
Themes:
Another major theme of the novel is introduced in this chapter. What do you think that theme is? Why? What textual proof is there to support your idea?
Style:
Cisneros has a poetic style. She incorporates both vivid imagery and spare prose. She uses both to create a picture of the narrator’s world.
1. What words does the narrator use to describe the relationship between her brothers? Between the brothers and the sisters? Between the two sisters?
2. How do these words create a sense of the responsibility the narrator feels towards her sister?
3. How does the description of the dream best friend contrast with the description her sister?
4. What lines in this chapter create the sense of separation that the narrator feels? What metaphor is used to reinforce this idea?
Personal Response:
What do you think the narrator of the novel means when she says “The boys and the girls live in separate worlds?” In what way does this quote apply to your life? Do you think that that the genders in your home are treated differently?
posted by dconlay @ 11:54 AM
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9 Comments:
1) little Boys and girls Can be friends in private but not in public? Esperanza says "{My Brothers}theyve got plenty to say to me and nenny inside the house . but outside they cant be seen talking to girls "
2)Nenny is a big weight on her solders and nenny is Esperanzas responsiblitiy.
3)Esperanza wishes to have a best friend on she can tell secrets to .
4) she decribes them as a bi9g weight no her solders .
5)yes she said "like a red ballon tided to an anchor.
6)One day she will be free.
D,john per 1.
1.She says that boys and girls live in a separate worlds and she says that her brothers Carlo and Kiki are each other friends and she also says that you just don't pick on your sister,and that means that boys get their brothers as best friends, but girls don't get their sister ffor their best friend.
2. That she is to young and Esperanza has to take care of her.
3. That someday she will have a best friend all her own and until she finds a best friend she is a red balloon, a balloon tied to an anchor.
Quotes
1. That boys do differetn things than girls do.
2. That her brothers are their best friends and they don't have sisters as best friends.
3. That she will have a best friend that is like her and that is not too young so she would tell her jokes and she would not have to explain it.
4. It means that until she finds a best friend she feels tied to her secrets because she can not get tell anybody about her sicrets.
Themes
I think the theme in this chapter is tolerance because she says that Nenny is too young to be her friend.
Style
1. That her brothers talk to them in their house but because they think is not cool they can't be seen talking to a girl in the streets and that her sister is too young to be her friend.
2. It creates a sense that because her sister is younger than her she is reponsible for taking care of her young sister.
3. It contrast by she finding her best friend that is about her age so her best friend could understand her and because her sister is too young she doesn't understand her.
4. When she says that it isn't her fault that she is her younger sister.
I think that the narrator means that boys don't do some same things that girls do.
J Caldeorn P.1
Questions:
1. What does the narrator say about the relationship between boys and girls? What evidence does she provide to support this idea?
She says that boys and girls aren’t supposed to speak to each other and the evidence they have of this is that the boys talk to them in the house but outside they don’t.
2. What does the narrator say about her sister? How does this impact their relationship?
The reader says that she is smaller than her and that makes her just her sister and not someone who she can talk to like a best friend.
3. About what does the narrator dream? What does this say about her?
She says that she dreams of having a best friend who she can tell secrets to and jokes. This tells us that the narrator is some what lonely.
Quotes:
Explain the significance of the following quotes.
1. The boys and the girls live in separate worlds.
Boys and girls aren’t equal, or that boys and girls cant be together.
2. Carlos and Kiki are each other’s best friend. . . not ours.
She doesn’t have anyone to relate to her brothers are best friends with each other they are just the sisters.
3. Someday I will have a best friend all my own. One I can tell secrets to. One who will understand my jokes without my having to explain them.
Se doesn’t have anyone to relate to, someone who she can tell her secrets to or her jokes, she’s lonely.
4. Until then I am a red balloon, a balloon tied to an anchor.
Although she has brothers and sisters she feels alone.
Themes:
Another major theme of the novel is introduced in this chapter. What do you think that theme is? Why? What textual proof is there to support your idea?
The theme of loneliness or the theme about boys and girls. The textual evidence is when se says se wants to have someone to talk to and the one about boys and girls when se says they live in diferent worlds.
Style:
1. What words does the narrator use to describe the relationship between her brothers? Between the brothers and the sisters? Between the two sisters?
Between her brothers they are best friends, between brothers and sisters that’s all they are brother and sister, and as well between the two sisters they are just sisters and she has to look out for her sister because she is smaller.
2. How do these words create a sense of the responsibility the narrator feels towards her sister?
It creates a sense of responsibility because she says se is responsible for her sister because she’s older and should out for her.
3. How does the description of the dream best friend contrast with the description her sister?
Her sister and her cant tell each other secrets and joke around but with her best friend she would be able to do all that.
4. What lines in this chapter create the sense of separation that the narrator feels? What metaphor is used to reinforce this idea?
She feels as though she has no one to talk to, “Until then I am a red balloon, a balloon tied to an anchor.
Personal Response:
What do you think the narrator of the novel means when she says “The boys and the girls live in separate worlds?” In what way does this quote apply to your life? Do you think that that the genders in your home are treated differently?
The boys have their own things to do and I do think it does apply in some way to today’s life because there are certain things that only guys or only girls do and in my house my brother does get treated differently but still fairly to me.
b contreras per 4
1. The narrator says that the boy's are in their own universe and the girls are in their's. And that in side the house the boy's talk to the girl's and when there out side the house the boy's will not go close to the girl's.
2. The narrator say's that her baby sister is too young to be her best friend. And that some day she could have a best friend all to her self, to tell secrets too. But until then she is just a red ballon tied to and anchor.
K.Coxen
per.4
Questions:
1. What does the narrator say about the relationship between boys and girls? What evidence does she provide to support this idea?
She says they live in their own worlds. They are comp;etly diffrent.
2. What does the narrator say about her sister? How does this impact their relationship?
She sayd that her sister is to young to bee her friend and she didn't get to choose her sister she just got her.
3. About what does the narrator dream? What does this say about her?
She says that she wishes to have a best friend of her own that she can tell secrets to and hang out with. What is baciclly told is that she is lonley and doesn't have any good friends she can tell secrets to, and that is what she wants.
Quotes:
Explain the significance of the following quotes.
1. The boys and the girls live in separate worlds.
Girls and boys are way diffrent. Girls like dolls and make up and boys like sports and mudd.
2. Carlos and Kiki are each other’s best friend. . . not ours.
Carlos and Kiki are best friends with eachother not with the other people though.
3. Someday I will have a best friend all my own. One I can tell secrets to. One who will understand my jokes without my having to explain them.
Someday she will find her own best friend that she can tell secrets to that won't tell anyone else.
4. Until then I am a red balloon, a balloon tied to an anchor.
Baciccly she is by herself, can't do anything, and doesnt have any friends to be with.
Style:
Cisneros has a poetic style. She incorporates both vivid imagery and spare prose. She uses both to create a picture of the narrator’s world.
1. What words does the narrator use to describe the relationship between her brothers? Between the brothers and the sisters? Between the two sisters?
She uses he words "best friends" to show the relationship that her two brothers have with eachother. To show her relationship with her to brothers with her self, she uses " They are in seperate worlds." Also for the relationship between her sister and herself she uses " Nenny is to young to be my friend."
2. How do these words create a sense of the responsibility the narrator feels towards her sister?
The narrator feels likee her sister is to young to keep secrets with, shes not close enough to her to be like bestfriends with her sister.
3. How does the description of the dream best friend contrast with the description her sister?
In her dream she explains that she wants her own best friend that she can tell secrets to and that will understand her jokes without explaining them, but her sister is to young to keep secrets and to understand the jokes that she tells.
4. What lines in this chapter create the sense of separation that the narrator feels? What metaphor is used to reinforce this idea?
She uses the lines,"Carlos and Kiki are eachothers best friends," and "Nenny is to young to be my friend," she doesn't feel that she is very close to her family because her younger sister is to young and her brothers are already really close to eachother.
KMolter Per 1
1)She says that boys and girls aren’t supposed to speak to each other.The boys talk to them in the house but outside they don’t.
2)The reader says that she is smaller than her and that makes her just her sister and not someone who she can talk to like a best friend.
3)She says that she dreams of having a best friend who she can tell secrets to and jokes. This tells us that the narrator is lonely and want's a best friend she can talk to.
Quotes:
1) The boys and the girls live in separate worlds.
Boys and girls aren’t equal, or that boys and girls cant be together.
2. Carlos and Kiki are each other’s best friend. . . not ours.
She doesn’t have anyone to relate to her brothers are best friends with each other they are just the sisters.
3. Someday I will have a best friend all my own. One I can tell secrets to. One who will understand my jokes without my having to explain them.
Se doesn’t have anyone to relate to, someone who she can tell her secrets to or her jokes, she’s lonely.
4. Until then I am a red balloon, a balloon tied to an anchor.
Although she has brothers and sisters she feels alone.
Themes:
The theme of loneliness or the theme about boys and girls. The textual evidence is when she says she wants to have someone to talk to and the one about boys and girls and she says they live in diferent worlds.
Style:
1)Between her brothers they are best friends, between brothers and sisters that’s all they are brother and sister, and as well between the two sisters they are just sisters and she has to look out for her sister because she is smaller.
2)It creates a sense of responsibility because she says she is responsible for her sister the reasoning is because she’s older and should out for her.
3)Her sister and her can't tell eachother secrets and jokes around but with her best friend she would be able to do all that.
4. She feels as though she has no one to talk to, “Until then I am a red balloon, a balloon tied to an anchor.
Personal Response:
The narrator means that Boys and Girls live in seperate worlds because boys are grungy and girls and sassy they have different classes and see things in many different ways.This applys to my life by having seperation of the genders in certain situations.No mostly it deals with age gender in my family not the gender they are.
THunt Per4
Questions:
The narrator felt that boys and girls were from different universes. Boys have allot to say to girls inside the house, but outside, want nothing to do with them.
Esperanza felt that her sister Nenny was too young to be friends with, and that she was just another responsibility.
Esperanza dreamed that one day she will meet the perfect friend, that will understand her, and be like her in everyway. This thought shows how lonely Esperanza is.
Quotes:
The boys and the girls live in separate worlds, means that they are completely different from one another.
When Esperanza said Carlos and kaki are each others best friends, she meant that they don’t have anything to do with Esperanza and Nenny outside of the house.
Someday I will have a best friend all my own. Esperanza feels she has no one to talk to, and no one that understands what she feels or thinks.
When Eperanza said "Until then I am a red balloon, a balloon tied to an anchor." She felt that mango street had her tied down, that she had no where to go and until she was old enough, she was stuck where she was.
Themes:
The theme that was introduced into this chapter was Esperanza'sfeeling of being shackled.
Style:
Esperanza felt that since Nenny was so young, she was another responsibility for her to look after.
Esperanza’s dream of a best friend was someone closer to her age, someone she didn't have to take care of or look after.
The phrase boys and the girls live in separate worlds, shows the sense of separation she feels. Esperanza feels divided because she can’t do what boys get to do, and boys are not supposed to do what the girls do.
Personal Response:
"The boys and the girls live in separate worlds" means that boys are expected to play and run, and come home dirty, while the girls are supposed to play nicely and come home clean. This is only one example of the gender separation that divides the world.
G,Ney per 1.
1.The narrator says that boys and girls when they are little they live in two worlds.She says that her and her brother play together when thier at home but not out side.
2.Nenny comes her older sister so she has to take care of her.It impacts thier relationship because she has to take good care of her.
3.She dreams about someday having her best friend that understands her.
Quotes
1.Boys and girls live in seperate worlds because they think different.
2.CArlos and Kiki are each others best friends bbecause theirlittle and they understand each other.
3.What the narrator wants is some one her age that will be her friend.
4.She's lonely all by herself she has nobody to play or talk with
Theme
I think the theme is how you start to think as you get older and who tohang out with when you're little.
Style
2.It gives her a really big responsibilty because the little one always looks up to the older one.
3.Teh dream is letting you know that her and her sister are different ages and they think different.
Pr
Boys and girls live in htier own worlds when there small when I was small I thought girls had some thing they told me if they touch me I will rott.In my house everybody is treated equally.
Cmarin Per 1
1)She says that boys and girls aren’t supposed to speak to each other.The boys talk to them in the house but outside they don’t.
2)The reader makes it seem that Nenny is little so she cant talk to her like a friend until she gets older.
3)She wants a friend so they can joke together and one she can trust and talk to. The reader wants a friend to talk to because she is lonely.
Quotes:
1) The boys and the girls live in separate worlds.
Boys and girls aren’t equal, or that boys and girls cant be together.
2. Carlos and Kiki are each other’s best friend. . . not ours.
She doesn’t have anyone to relate to her brothers are best friends with each other they are just the sisters.
3. Someday I will have a best friend all my own. One I can tell secrets to. One who will understand my jokes without my having to explain them.
Se doesn’t have anyone to relate to, someone who she can tell her secrets to or her jokes, she’s lonely.
4. Until then I am a red balloon, a balloon tied to an anchor.
Although she has brothers and sisters she feels alone.
Themes:
The theme of loneliness or the theme about boys and girls. The textual evidence is when she says she wants to have someone to talk to and the one about boys and girls and she says they live in diferent worlds.
Style:
1)Between her brothers they are best friends, between brothers and sisters that’s all they are brother and sister, and as well between the two sisters they are just sisters and she has to look out for her sister because she is smaller.
2)It creates a sense of responsibility because she says she is responsible for her sister the reasoning is because she’s older and should out for her.
3)Her sister and her can't tell eachother secrets and jokes around but with her best friend she would be able to do all that.
4. She feels as though she has no one to talk to, “Until then I am a red balloon, a balloon tied to an anchor.
Personal Response:
The narrator means that Boys and Girls live in seperate worlds because boys are grungy and girls and sassy they have different classes and see things in many different ways.This applys to my life by having seperation of the genders in certain situations.In my family, it does have alot to do with gender and age. I have two brothers in my family and its just me and momma who are girls.
kyra and I did this together in the computer lab.I didnt post mine until today.
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