Mango Street-"Those Who Don't"
The House on Mango Street
Journal Guide for Chapter Twelve
“Those Who Don’t”
Answer the following questions in complete sentences.
Questions
1. How do outsiders view Esperanza’s neighborhood?
2. How do the people who live in Esperanza’s neighborhood view it?
3. How does Esperanza feel when she drives “into a neighborhood of another color?”
Quotes
Explain the significance of the following quotes.
1. All brown all around, we are safe.
2. But watch us drive into a neighborhood of another color and our knees go shakity-shake and our car windows get rolled up tight and our eyes look straight. Yeah. That is how it goes and goes.
Themes
This chapter is a type of social commentary. Esperanza points out several things that reinforce prejudices and segregation. What does she point out? What does she say will make the fear go away?
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 trip into another neighborhood? How does this imagery reinforce the idea of segregation?
2. Esperanza points out both sides of the social separation issue. What words does she use to show both sides?
3. What lines in this chapter create the sense of separation that the narrator feels? Does she believe that this will change?
Personal ResponseWhat do you believe will make the separations in our society change? Aside from racial segregation, what other factors separate people? Will this change?
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K.Coxen
Per.4
Questions:
1.Outsiders are terrified to enter Esperanza’s neighborhood.
2.Esperanza’s neighborhood isn’t terrified. Everyone knows each other.
3.When Esperanza drives through a neighborhood of another race she get terrified, just like when other people enter her neighborhood.
Quotes:
1.They feel safe because they are surrounded by their own race.
2.When they drive into a neighborhood of a different race the feel uncomfortable and scared.
Themes:
1.People feel more cofertable around there own race. She points out that a lot of people get along with their own race easier than others because they are use to their way of living.
Style:
1.”Watch us drive into a neighborhood of another color and are legs go shakity-shake…” this shows that she is scared to enter other neighborhoods because they might look down on her.
2.She shows that both sides are afraid to enter each other’s neighborhoods.
3.When she talks about different colors/race and stating that they are afraid to enter each other’s neighborhoods, creates a sense of separation. She doesn’t think this will change.
Personal Response:
1.A lot of separation in the world is based on wealth. People are separated in money wise. The wealthy live with the wealthy, the poor with the poor, and everything in-between. I doubt that this will change, unless everyone earns the same amount of money, but even if they earn the same amount of money wont change this. People spend their money differently. Some people save their money and others don’t.
davisL per4
1. The outsiders come in to her neighborhood scared. They think that the neighborhood is dangerous.
2. Her and her family arent scared. They are safe.
3. She feels scared when she goes into another neighborhood. her knees shake.
4. The significance is that she knows her neighborhood. she is safe.
5. When tey go into another neighborhood they are scared.
6. She points out that when she leaves her neighborhood she gets scared and her knees shake.
7. The narrator uses a fewling of being scared when they leavce the neighborhood.
8. She uses the words when we drive into a neighborhood of another color we are scared.
9. The lines about what happens when they leave the neighborhood.
10. they way they,act,dress, and what they like.
Iespada Per.1
I.
1)Outsiders view Esperanza's neighborhood as a scary place.
2)The outsiders think the people who live in her neighborhood are dangerous.
3)When Esperanza drives by into a neighborhood of another color she also gets scared.
II.
1)Esperanza explains that if she is around people of the same color and culture, she feels safe.
2)She knows that when people of another color drive through their neighborhood, they get scared. She does the same when she goes threw a different color neighborhood and that's just the way it is.
III.
1)Esperanza points out that people of different color skin act different. Humans are always scared of the unknown and we make assumptions. She points out that she does the same and gets scared.
IV.
1)The narrator uses words like "dangerous" and "attack" to describe the neighborhood.
2)Esperanza uses words like "brown all around" and "knees go shikity-shake" to describe the segregation issue.
3)Lines like "they are the stupid people who are lost and got here by mistake." and "All brown all around, we are safe." describe how the narrator feels. She does not feel that it will change.
V.
1)I feel that to make the seperarations of our society end we will all have to accept that we are all people and we need to ignore the differences that don't matter. Music culture also seperates people in our society. I don't beleive that that will ever change.
J Calderon P.1
Questions:
1. They think they are dangerous.
2. They aren't scared they feel safe because the all know eachother.
3. She gets nervous and scared.
Quotes:
1. They are all the same, they all know eachother and so they feel safe.
2. It means that when she seespeoplewho are diferent or new she gets nervous and some what scared.
Themes:
1. She points out that people onyly feel safe with their own race and with others they dont.
Style:
1. "Knees go shakety-shake and our car windows get rolled up tight and our eyes look straight.", this reinforces the them of segregation because it shows how diferent neighborhoods (races) can't interact.
2. For the other side she uses dangeruos and for her side she uses safe.
3. "Those who don't know any better come into our neighborhood scared." She shows how people misjudge the neighborhood simply becaue they don't know the people or they are of a diferent color or social status.
Personal Response:
1. Aside from race a thing that separates people at times is their social status but i really dont think this will change because there is always gonna be narrow minded people.
Questions
1.Outsides view Esperanza's neighborhood as a danger zone full of bad and scary people.
2.The people in the neighborhood know eachother and know that no one is dangerous or would do harm to others.
3.Esperanza feels anxiety and intimidation when in the presence of a different racial neighborhood.
Quotes
Explain the significance of the following quotes.
1.Esperanza notes how comfortable and relaxed the same race is around eachother.
2. Esperanza recognizes how each race does the same thing when in the presence of another.
Themes
Esperanza points out how each race might feel timid when outnumbered by another, and she doesn't seem optimistic in that fear ever going away.
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 words that Esperanza uses to describe going into another neighborhood express fear and the need to try to go unnoticed. It's an obvious segregation if thats how different races react to eachother.
2.Esperanza parrallels each side to the other to show that everyone acts and reacts the same.
3."Yeah. That is how it goes and goes." This is a very pessimistic way showing that she doesn't believe things will change.
Personal Response
When everyone can let their guard down and really try to understand one another and just relax and not have to worry about offending someone if those weren't the initial intentions, then we all might be able to get along. I could see this happening if a certain something was made okay for people to use.
R ortiz
Per.1
Questions:
1.It is a poor and dangerous neighborhood.
2.They just live there lives.
3.She is very scared.
Quotes:
1.They are safe if they are all the same race.
2.If they go into another place with another race they arent safe.
Themes:
1.You never feel safe unless your in your neighborhood.
Style:
1.But watch us drive into a neighborhood of another color and our knees go shakity-shake and our car windows get rolled up tight and our eyes look straight.You dont feel safe.
2.those who dont know our place are scare and we are scared of there place.
3.She dosent feel like it will change.
Personal response:
1.I think war is something that seperates.
1. The outsiders view Esperanza's hometown as the ghetto. It's usually the people that are lost.
2.People that live in the neighborhood view it as their home. they know one another and they arent afraid to walk down the streets at night.
3. She would probably feel the same as the outsiders who come to her street. Thats how it is, no matter what.
Quotes
Explain the significance of the following quotes.
1. Everybody in the neighborhood are the same color. Because of this, they are all safe.
2. She means that if they were to go in a diffrent color neighborhood, she would feel out of place. Thats how it will always be.
Themes
She points out that people with the same color are more comfortable with each other. They usually live in the same neighborhood too. The fear that will go away is when you get used to the people of the opposite color.
Style
1. She uses the words scared and dangerous. It shows the idea of segregation because people of the opposite color feel this way when they enter each others neighborhood.
2."..but watch us drive into a neighborhood of another color.."
3. "Thats how it is and thats how it goes" She believes that this will never change.
Personal Response
I believe that if everybody was treated equal and there weren't so many racist people out there something could work. I dont think these rules will change unless the laws or bills change. Other factors that seperate us would be money issues.
KMolter Per1
1)Outsiders view Esperanza's neighborhood as a scary place.
2)The people who do live in Esperanzas neighborhood view it as a safe place because they know everyone.
3)When Esperanza drives into a neighborhood of another color she also gets scared.
Quotes
1)Esperanza explains that if she is around people of the same color and culture, she feels safe.
2)She knows that when people of another color drive through their neighborhood, they get scared. She does the same when she goes through a different color neighborhood also.
Themes
1)Esperanza points out that people of different color skin act different. People are always making assumptions.She even says that she herself gets scared when going through other colored neighborhoods
Style
1)The narrator uses words like "dangerous" and "attack" to describe the neighborhood.This makes the neighborhood seem bad to live in.
2)Esperanza uses words like "brown all around" and "knees go shikity-shake" to describe the segregation issues between the dfferent colors.
3)Lines like "they are the stupid people who are lost and got here by mistake." and "All brown all around, we are safe." describe how the narrator feels. She does not feel that it will change.
Personal Response
1.I believe that nothing will ever be able to make our society change from seperation issues.This has been a huge cause over the years an still has not changed. Some other factors or a big one is what you wear to judge basically who you are or who you provide yourself out to the world.
1.Outsiders that dont know about Esperanzas neighborhood are afraid of it.
2.People who live on Mango street arent afraid at all because they live there and their surrounded by there own race.
3.When she drives into a neighborhood of another race she becomes frightened and nervous.
1.This quote is significant because it shows she feels safe around her own race and nobody else.
2.She is unfamiliar with other races and neighbohoods so she gets scared when around other races and different places.
1.She points out that people have a better sense of security when surrounded by their own race.The fear will only go away when people of different races get used to each other.
1.Are legs go shakity-shake are windows get rolled up tight and are eyes look straight.It shows just how scared they are of another race.
2.She shows that both sides have the same feeling about another races neighborhood.
3. All brown all around we are safe and watch are legs go shakity-shakeare some quotes used to show the seperation between races.This isnt going to change.
1.In order for racial segregation to die down people of different races need to spend more time with one another. Their are other things that seperate people besides race like gender and age but these things will not change.
P1_CBreedlove
1. Outsiders view Esperanza's neighborhood as a scary place.
2. They view the neighborhood as nothing scary because everyone knows each other.
3. She gets nervous when she drives "into a neighborhood of another color".
Quotes:
1. It shows that since everyone has the same color of skin, there is more security.
2. Because it's a new type of race that they are experiencing.
Themes:
1. "But watch us drive into a neighborhood of another color and our knees go shakity-shake and our car windows get rolloed up tight and our eyes go straight." It reinforces the idea of segregation by showing that Esperanza and her family get nervous when they see people with different colored skin than brown skin of which is their own.
2. "Those who don't know any better come into our neighborhood scared. They think we're dangerous." "But we aren't afraid."
3. All of the last paragraph in this chapter shows what sense of seperation that Esperanza feels. She just thinks that it just happens and has no real evidence saying that she thinks that the sense of separation will change or not.
Personal Response:
1. I do not believe that anything will make the separations in our society change because of so many people who go by the idea of which the world is only good for themselves and they only have so much time. Other than racial separation, there is financial separation, gender separation, age separation and much more. If the people who were the main culprits in creating separation in our society listened to the people who actually cared more about the life of the world and the people who live on it, the separation in our society COULD change at one time.
J Limon
Per.1
1.The outsiders came into the neighborhood scared.
2.The neighborhood is not as bad as the outsider view it. Everyone knows each other.
3.When Esperanza goes into a neighborhood of another color she gets sacred.
Quotes:
1.I think she feels saver when she is around her people.
2.When she goes into a different neighborhood she feels not save.
Theme:
1.In her own view of point she feels a lot saver with her own race. Also, other races feel the same way.
Style:
1.“But watch us drive into a neighborhood of another color and our knees go shakity-shake and our car windows get rolled up tight and our eyes look straight. Yeah. That is how it goes and goes.”
2.“but watch us drive into a neighborhood of another color.."
3."Thats how it is and thats how it goes".
Personal response:
1. what separates people in our society are the different levels of classes. There are always going to be people richer than others. I don’t think this will change because there always going to be people that are not going to accepted others just the way there are.
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