Mango Street-"The Family of Little Feet"
The House on Mango Street
Journal Guide for Chapter Seventeen
“The Family of Little Feet”
Answer the following questions in complete sentences.
Questions
1. What happens to Esperanza when she and her friends are given some second-hand high heel shoes?
2. Why does the man say the shoes are dangerous?
3. How doe the shoes change the girls?
4. How do the men in the neighborhood behave when they see the girls in those shoes?
Themes
1. In this chapter, the girls learn quite a bit about the way women are perceived. What are the perceptions of women that they face?
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. The girls refer to themselves as Cinderella and Christmas. What does this type of imagery show about them?
2. What lines in this chapter create the sense of impending violence and potential violation that the narrator feels?
Personal Response
Are people judged by the clothing they wear? Should they be? Is there a double standard for women and their behavior?
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Questions
1. They wear them and she says that its scary to have discovered they have long long legs.
2. He said they are dangerous because they aren't the kind of shoes a young girls should wear and people might get the wrong idea especially men.
3. They said they were not going to wear any other kind of shoes and they get more attention from men.
4. They behaive in an inappropriate way. They bahaive as though they are not little girls and are older girls.
Themes
1. They realize how woman are treated by men. They see how mwn get the wrong idea by how a girl or woman dresses.
Style
1. It shows that they don't know what other people really think abour girls who dress in a certain way and it shows that they are not yet mature.
2. When she says it is crazy to talk to drunks and worse to tell them your name.
Personal Response
1. People usually are judged by what they wear. When someone is dressed out of the ordinary people judge them immidiately. I really don't think that they should be judged on what they wear because it's just clothing it's just what that person chooses to were not what kind of person they are. Just because someone is dressed strangely does not mean they are a bad person. Woman are judged more on how they act and what they wear. People assume that if a woman dresses in revealing clothes it means something. I think that a woman shouldn't be judged that way she should be judged on how she acts or her personality if she must be.
davisL per 4
1. When they get the shoes the boys start to notice them and yell comments at them.
2. He says they are dangerous because he know that people wil think they are prostitutes.
3.It makes them act different and gives them confidence in some way.
4. They yell comments at them and think the girls are prostitutes.
5. They are that women are whores and should stay where they belong. The men think that women on the street are prostitutes.
6. They are very creaative and have a good bt wierd imagination.
7. The line where the guy yells take me to heaven at them.
8. Yes in some cases they are and no i dont think they should be.
davisL per 4
1. When they get the shoes the boys start to notice them and yell comments at them.
2. He says they are dangerous because he know that people wil think they are prostitutes.
3.It makes them act different and gives them confidence in some way.
4. They yell comments at them and think the girls are prostitutes.
5. They are that women are whores and should stay where they belong. The men think that women on the street are prostitutes.
6. They are very creaative and have a good bt wierd imagination.
7. The line where the guy yells take me to heaven at them.
8. Yes in some cases they are and no i dont think they should be.
J Calderon P.1
questions
1. The girls put them on, and walk around the block for a while.
2. He says they are dangerous becasue it will get them attention in a diferent and new way.
3. The shoes make them seem older in a way.
4. The guys go crazy because they see something new.
Themes
1. The perceptions of the women they faced were that women are only seen as a "thing" and aren't given much respect,But at the same time they are beautifultothe men who see them.
Style
1. Its christmas because the men are gonna see something new like a present, and it is like cinderella because they put on the heels and they are seen in a whole different way by the men.
Personal Response
1. Some people are judged by the way they dress.People shouldn't be judged by the way they dress becasue it may have nothing to do with the way they are. For some reasons there should be a double standard but for other reasons there shouldn't
Questions:
1.When the girls get the shoes they put them on and walk around the block. All the guys notice them and yell comments at them.
2.He tells the girls they are to young to wear them and he will call the cops if they do not take them off.
3.The shoes makes the girls feel older, pretier, and they feel like guys notice them more.
4.The guys all yell comments at them and there is this one homeless guy that trys to have Rachel kiss him for a dollar.
Themes:
1.They see that men have no respect for women and yell out nast comments to them.
Style:
1.Cinderella never got new things, so they felt that they got used shoes for x-mass and was still happy for it.
2."If I give you a dollar will you kiss me?" This sentance shows that the world is a dangerous place. This old homeless man is asking this inocent girl to kiss him for a dollar. He is treating her like she is a prostitute.
Personal Response:
Yes, people get judged all the time for what they wear expecially girls. I do not think its fair because people should dress the way they feel comfortable and not get judged for their style.
Questions
1. The girls excitedly put on the shoes are go around town to show them off and how pretty they think they look with the shoes.
2. The man says the shoes are dangerous because they make the girls look older and they could attract the wrong attention from people.
3. The girls become very show off-ish and confident when they have the shoes on.
4. The men pay more attention to them and are more flirtatious when they see the girls in the shoes.
Themes
1. The perception that women are mere objects and are judged soley on how they look on the outside are what the girls experience that day.
Style
1. The imagery is of still young and imaginative children.
2. The whole incident with the bum is when Esperanza obviously feels threatened and tries to get away from the situation as quickly as she can.
Personal Response
People are absolutley judged by what they wear, and to some extent should be. Of course everyone has their own personality that could be polar opposite to the sterotype of how they may dress, but when people first see some one they don’t usually consider that. There is also a huge double standard on women about behavior. Sometimes men can get away with certain things and then women can get away with others, and a lot of the time the double standard on that is totally unfair.
PERIOD 1Questions
1. They wear them out on the streets and they get freaked out by them because of the perverted bum.
2. The shoes attract the wrong people. The people that shouldn't be involved with these little girls.
3. The shoes change the girls by making them feel more mature and grown up.
4. The girls turn every mans heads in town. A bum even asked her for a kiss.
Themes
1. They face the men looking at them as they walk on the street. The men look at them as if they were Christmas. Men shout out comments to the little girls.
Style
1. The Cinderella part means that the shoe fit them like the glass slipper fit Cinderella. They felt like Christmas to the men because the men acted as if they were opening new, fresh presents.
Personal Response
Yes, people will always be judged by what they wear. This isn't right because the way I dress, people just assume that's all I am. When I dress different, they think I'm trying to be something I'm not, when I never claimed anything in the first place. The way women behave and act is the way they want to be treated. They deserve it.♠
KMolter Per1
1. The girls put them on, and walk around the block showing off there new shoes.
2. He says they are dangerous becasue it will get them attention in a diferent and new way which isnt good for young girls.
3. The shoes make them seem older in a way and show them being more of women or trying to become older then they are.
4. The guys reactions go crazy because they see something new.
Themes
1. The perceptions of the women they faced were that women are only seen as a "thing" and aren't given much respect,But at the same time they are beautiful to the men who see them and thats the attention the young girls want.
Style
1. Its christmas because the men are gonna see something new like a present, and it is like cinderella because they put on the heels and they are seen in a whole different way by the men.
Personal Response
Yes, people are judge by the clothing that they wear. I personally feel as if they should be though because what you wear is what you represent about yourself and who you are as a person. There is a doubled standard for women because at times they can be labeled things and this affects our culture as women an how we are an represent ourself.
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