Mango Street-"Hips"
The House on Mango Street
Journal Guide for Chapter Twenty
“Hips”
Answer the following questions in complete sentences.
Questions
1. What are the girls doing while they talk about hips?
2. What do they say hips are good for? What misconceptions does Nenny have?
3. What does the comments made about hips tell you about the girls’ ages?
Quotes
Explain the significance of the following quotes.
One day you wake up and they are there. Ready and waiting like a new Buick with keys in the ignition. Ready to take you where?
She is too many light-years away. She is in a world we don’t belong to anymore.
Themes
The roles of women are discussed in this chapter. What roles do the girls mention in their rhymes? What do the comments about what hips are for show about the girls and their ideas about women and women’s roles?
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 Esperanza use to describe hips? What metaphor does she use?
2. How do these words create a sense of the inevitability of growing up that the narrator feels?
3. Why doesn’t Nenny join in the language game that the other girls are playing? How do the rhymes that the girls create show something about their personalities?
Personal Response
At what age did you feel that you had left your childhood behind? When did you feel that you were becoming an adult? Have you felt that? How would you describe growing up?
posted by dconlay @ 9:15 PM
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14 Comments:
Quesyions:
1.The girls are jumping rope when they are talking about hips.
2.They say that hips are good for holding babies when you cook. Nenny says that if you do not have them then you are a man.
3.When your a teen alot of people think if you do not have hips you are a man, ans Nenny puts it.
Quotes:
1.One day you will wake up and notice you have hips finally.
2.Her mind is not were it should be. She is being immature.
Themes:
All the girls want to get hips. They say that all ladies that work have hips.
Style:
1. "They bloom like roses," One day you will wake up and notice you have hips.
2.Once you get hips, as Esperanza thinks, you are finally a women.
3.Nenny is still young and doesn't see what the other girls see. The other girls want to become older already. The feel more mature.
Personal Response:
When i was in middle school I still felt like i was a cild. It wasn't untill the middle of my freshman year when I felt like I grown up. My mom started letting me stay out later and gave me more responsibilities.
J Calderon P.1
Questions
1. The girls are singing/Jumping rope.
2. They are good for holding a baby when your cooking and to dance. Nenny says that if you don't get them you may turn into a man.
3. It tells you they are still young but not too young because they know some things that are right.
Quotes
1. The girls think they get hips from one night to another, this shows something they don't know about.
2. Nenny got lost in her own world.
Themes
1. They mention the fact that they are good for holding babies while cooking,this shows us that the girls have the idea that women are made to take care of the kids and clean up around the house.
Style
1. She says that hips are scientific,and bloom like roses.
2. She knows that when she has kids it is because she is older and has "grown" hips.
3. Nenny jumps in becasue she wants to be part of the group of girls.
Personal Response
1. I can't really remember ever feeling that way but i'm pretty sure it was somewhere between 8th grade and freshman year.
davisL per 4
1. They are Making little rhymes that have to deal with hips and people with hips.
2. lucy says you need them to dance and alot of other things. Nenny says if u dont get them u turn into a man which is not true because everybody has them.
3. It tells us that they are young and not mature yet.
4. Hipsare always there and they are always ready for you to walk.
5. They ar saying that basicly she is odd.
6. The roles are a waitress and washer women maybe. Their ideas nabout women are not quite that positive in a way.
7. She uses the metaphor about the buik and keys in the egnition.
8. It seem like she is not wanting to grow up yet she wants to be that age for longer.
9. She does not join because she wants to be mature and does not think it would be fun. The personalities of the girls are wacky playful and happy alot.
10. Growing up was fun eventful yet sometimes i wanted to grow up. I feel i left at age 13 when i officialy becam a teen some would say.
SteeleD Per4
1. They are jumping rope
2. Esperanza hears Rachel say they are good for holding babies while you cook, Esperanza concludes that she has no imagination. Nenny says that those without hips are men, Esperanza assumes this is due to her age.
3. After reading this chapter, I beleive that the girls are just begining to learn what growing up is like.
Quotes
- As it says, one day you wake up and you have hips, just waiting for you to take them out for a test run.
- Nenny's mind set is immature compared to Esperanza's, who is starting to mature.
Themes
- Apparently, in this time in the world(Esperanza's), women's hips and body language seem to stand out the most.
Style
1. Esperanza says that hips are scientific. She states "One day you wake up and there they are. Ready and waiting like a new Buick with the keys in the ignition."
2. It shows that she knows that all women gain hips and that is a inevitability
3. Nenny mainly does not join in because she does not fully grasp what hip mean. Rachel's rymn shows that she understands the use of body language. Lucy's rymn shows she seems to dislike the elderly. Esperanza's rymn shows she does not care, as long as they come in.
Personal
- I beleive that I still have not left my childhood behind, Today's youth seem to want to grow up much to quick, I say that there is no rush, enjoy the ride and have fun.
Roy Ortiz
Per.1
Hips
Questions:
1.They are playing jumprope.
2.Hips are good for holding babies and that men don't have them.
3.They are still kids and don't know.
Quotes:
1.one day you will wake up and you will be a women.
2.She is being obnochis.
Themes:
1.They need hips for work and the kids.
Style:
1.She uses that they bloom like roses.
2.Hips make a women.
3.She still didn't understand.
Personal response:
1.I felt older every day and i notest when my voive changed.
HIPS
PERIOD 1
Questions
1. The girls are playing double Dutch.
2. The older girls say hips are good for holding babies while cooking, or for dancing. Nenny thinks that if you don't get hips you turn into a man.
3. It shows that the girls aren't too old. Besides Esperanza, the other girls only know and assume about hips by what they see.
Quotes
1. Your hips will just be there and there is no stopping it. They will be new and change a lot about you.
2. Nenny's mind is elsewhere or just totally focused on her jumping. The rest of the girls are so much more evolved, they aren't even on the same planet.
Themes
The girls mention the role of being a mother and having children, and being a working woman.
Style
1. Esperanza uses the metaphor "like a new Buick" or "they bloom like roses".
2. Esperanza knows there is no way out of getting hips. You need them to have children, and to be a woman.
3. Nenny doesn't like acting so grown up. She is still young and she is just fine with that. The rhymes describe what each girl thinks of getting hips, and what its going to be like all grown up.
Personal Response
I was about 12 going on 13 when I realized I SHOULD leave my childhood behind. To this day I still love playing in parks, jumping in jump houses, watching cartoons, and just being a goof ball. In a lot of ways I hate that I am growing up. I don't want a whole bunch of responsibilities. I don't want to be held back by them either, I just want to play and have fun for the rest of my life. Growing up has its good points too. The things you experience while growing up are unforgettable.
Questions
1. They are singing a song about hips.
2. They are good to dance. Nenny said that if you don’t get them you turned into a man.
3. That you are gown women.
Quotes
Explain the significance of the following quotes.
You don’t notice when you are turning into a women.
She is not mature enough.
Themes
That they are good to dance.
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. She used that they are like Buick car. You notice them when you wake up.
2. She notice that she is growing into a women.
3. Why she is still a little girl.
Personal Response
When I had more responsibility.
G,Ney
Per 1
1.The girls are jumping rope and singing a song.
2.They say hips are good for holding a baby and to dance.
3.Thier entering the teenage stage.
Quotes
1.You just dont wake up with hips that you dance with.
2.She's not old enough to nknough what hips are for.
Theme
All women want to have hips guys like girls with hips I do but hard working women do have hips.
Pr
I started to feel like I was becoming older when I was 11 years old.Growing up was very cool because I went from playing with toys to doing grown up stuff.
1. When the girls are talking about hips, they are also jumping rope.
2. They say that hips are good for the future when you have kids. Nenny says without them, you are a man.
3. The comments that are made by the girls mean that they are old enough to understand what it's used for besides Nenny, because shes the youngest.
Quotes:
1.One day, you will start noticing that you have a shape to your body. Ready to take you into a teenage life.
2. Nenny is too young to know what is going on. She is immature compared to the rest of the girls.
Themes:
All ladies that work have hips. The ladies that cook and clean up. They are good to hold the baby too.
Style:
1."They bloom like roses." The metaphor she uses is you wake up and you got hips.
2. She realizes that when she gets older and has hips, she will know that she is old enough.
3. Nenny doesnt join in the language game because doesnt understand what they are talking about in the first place.
personal response
I feel that I left my childhood behind when i stopped caring about playing with toys. When i started to be more social.
Questions:
1.The girls are jumping rope.
2.They say hips are good for holding babys and dancing. Nenny says if you don't get them you will turn into a man.
3.They are young and believe anything.
Quotes:
1.It's something you can't help and you're never sure when they are coming.
2.She is in her own place and isn't paying attention.
Themes:
1.They believe all women have hips for taking care of babies and having families,they think women are only supposed to take care of the children and there families.
Style:
1.She says hips bloom like roses .
2.The narrarator might feel like one day growing up just kind of hits you. Like it's something you can't stop or start.
3.All the girls want to be older already but Nenny is having fun being young. She doesn't really care if she grows up or not.
Personal response:
1.I felt like chilhood left me last year. I changed everything like my school,friends, and things I did for fun. Alot of things i went through last year helped me grow up.
Questions
1. The girls are jumping rope while talking about hips.
2. The girls talk about how hips are good for dancing and holding babies, but Nenny thinks that if you don’t get them you will turn into a man.
3. The comments lead one to believe the girls are probably pre-teens because they haven’t experienced getting their hips yet.
Quotes
Explain the significance of the following quotes.
The narrator is saying that one day you are a kid and the next thing you know you have grown up and are ready to find out new things.
Esperanza is talking about how Nenny is still in that fantasy childlike state of mind that she and Rachel and Lucy have long grown out of.
Themes
The girls mention women being waitresses and mothers which makes it seem like they view women that can only amount to certain places.
Style
1. Esperanza talks about hips as cradles and flowers blooming.
2. Flowers inevitably bloom and the narrator connects that with the inevitability of growing up.
3. Nenny doesn’t join in because she has no idea of hips or their importance, and the girls rhymes show that they are creative and have different ideas of what growing up is like.
Personal Response
I think I went through that these past two years but at the same time I don’t really have any adult responsibilities so I don’t think I’m quite past that yet. Growing up to me has just been seeing both sides of being an adult, like on one side there is all the fun and freedom but then the other side is having to support yourself and then there is the whole idea of life in general and the point of going through everything knowing that you aren’t going to be around forever and how that affects how you live your life…its all very overwhelming.
cBreedlove P1
1. The girls are playing jump rope.
2. The girls say that hips are good for holding babies while you cook. Nenny says if you don't have hips, you are a man.
3. The comments give a feeling that says that the girls are still immature although they do know a few things about life that are true.
Quotes:
1. You decide where you go in the future.
2. The person is in her own world and cares about herself only?
Themes: The roles the girls mention are the usual stereotypical woman roles. Their comments obviously then show that they are immature in the section of knowing that women are not just people that gives birth and the usual sterotype.
Style:
1. She says that they bloom like roses.
2. That they will bloom no matter what?
3. Nenny doesn't join in the language game that the others are playing because as Esperanza is saying "she is in a world we don't belong to anymore.". The rhymes show that they are eccentric and a bit immature at the least.
Personal:
I felt like I left my childhood back when I was about.. Ten or Eleven. Even though that is not the usual age that you realize that you are older, it was this way for me. Growing up was good and bad. Good was really good and bad likewise.
KMolter Per1
1.The girls are jumping rope.
2.They say hips are good for holding babys and dancing. Nenny says if you don't get them you will turn into a man.
3.They are young and believe anything.
Quotes:
1.It's something you can't help and you're never sure when they are coming.
2.She is in her own place and isn't paying attention.
Themes:
1.They believe all women have hips for taking care of babies and having families,they think women are only supposed to take care of the children and there families.
Style:
1.She says hips bloom like roses .
2.The narrarator might feel like one day growing up just kind of hits you. Like it's something you can't stop or start.
3.All the girls want to be older already but Nenny is having fun being young. She doesn't really care if she grows up or not.
Personal response:
I felt when I was 13 I left my childhood because thats when I became a "teen" I felt as if I was becoming an adult when I just now turned 16 growing up to me is when you hit highschool and start driving.
Iespada Per. 1
I.
1)The girls are jumping rope while talking about hips.
2)They say that hips are good for dancing and hloding a baby on. Nenny believes that hips are what seperates a man from a woman.
3)They are becoming aware of their womanhood.
II.
1)This quote shows that hips are just there one day and you won't know what to do with them.
2)This quote shows that Nenny still thinks like a little kid and that the girls aren't little kids anymore.
III.
1)The girls mention that women have a role to be mothers. They also say that hips are for dancing and shaking.
IV.
1)Esperanza uses the word bones to describe hips because she thinks of them in more of a scientific matter.
2)This shows that the narrator knows that she can't be a kid forever and that she will have to grow up one day.
3)nenny doesn't join the other girls' game because she is too young to understand and make up her own lines. The rhymes show that all the girls have different levels of maturity.
V.
1)At 13 I felt like I was becomign an adult because I hAD MORE RESPONSIBILITIES.
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