Mango Street-“The Earl of Tennessee”
The House on Mango Street
Journal Guide for Chapter Twenty-Seven
“The Earl of Tennessee”
Answer the following questions in complete sentences.
Questions
1. Who is Earl? Where does he live?
2. What is Earl’s job?
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 Earl?
2. How do these words help compare Earl to a cockroach?
3. How does Earl’s lifestyle compare to the family lifestyle of Mango Street?
4. What is the role of setting in this chapter? How is Earl like his setting?
Personal Response
Describe your room. How does your room reflect who you are?
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Questions
1.Earl is the neighbor who lives in Edna's basement.
2.Earl is a jukebox repairman.
Style
1. Esperanza uses words like dusty, mold, and damp to describe Earl and his house.
2. Cockroaches live in the dark so these words go well with the theme of darkness.
3.Earl does not live the typical resident of Mango streets ways, he is not married and doesn't have any children, so he is looked at somewhat strangely.
4. The role of setting in this chapter is isolation, and Earl is very much like the setting because he is a hermit and doesn't really talk to his neighbors.
Personal Response
Describe your room. How does your room reflect who you are? My room is covered with fashion ads and editorials, pictures, and a few posters of movies and david bowie, lately my room is been a wreck and it does kind of reflect how I'm feeling and I was actually thinking about that exact thing the other day.
VCalderon
p.1
Question
1.Earl is a white male that liveson Mango ST.He lives next door in Ednas basement.
2.Earl is a jokebox repairman.
Style
1.Southern accent smokes fat cigars and wears felt hat winter or summer hot or cold don't matter a felt hat.
2.He lives an a ugly house and really doesn't do much just work.
3.He lives in a basement and he goes to work and comes home just gooes to work.
4.That there is alot of men is Mango St that work and that just enjoy there life little. He doesn't like his life as much or simply at all.
Personal Response
My room is medium.I have alot of color.That means in my life is very colorful but that means that I have alot of color.Also my room is orginized.Those are just things for me.
questions
1. He lives in Edna's basement.
2. He works at night, he is a repairman.
Style
1. she says he lives in a damp basemant.
2. because he lives in a moldy basement house.
3. he goes out and brings prrostitutes home.
4. he is an old grumpy moldy guiy who likes prostitutes or as esperanza says, "wives"
Pewrsonal Response
My room in a pigsty, i am lazy thats why.
Nensastegui-p1
The Earl Of Tennesse
1.Earl lives downstairs next door in Edna's basement.He works nights an he is never seen besides the times he comes and goes to work.
2.Earl is a jukebox repairman.
Style:
1.Esperanza describes earl as someone who is different from others. He speaks with a outhern accent, smokes fat cigars and wears a felt hat.
2.These words help compare Earl to a cockroach because they are always hidden up and different.
3.Earl doesn't really fit into Mango street family lifestyle because he doesnt have a family and the people who think he has a wife are wrong because he brings differnt woman to his house all the time.
4.The setting of this chapter is a moldy dampness setting taking place in Earl's home. He is like the setting because he is just like mold not going anywhere if you dont clean up.
Personal Response:
My roon is always clean. This reflects that I am organize because i can never not have everything in its place so that it is easier to find.
Roy Ortiz
Per. 1
The Earl of Tennesse
Questions:
1.He is a person that lived in the basementand came from tennesse.
2.He works night shifts.He is a jukebox repairman.
Style:
1.He is married and has a wife southern accent, smokes fat cigarets and wears a felt hat.
2. They help compare him to a coackroach because they are both filthy and don't really care about their hygene.
3.They are all ghetto and just want to find their way out of the streets.
4.Earl is like the setting because they both like to live in a simple setting with normal lives.
Personal Responce:
my room is very neat and doesn't have a lot of furnishin in it becuase i like to keep everything very simple. My room reflects me because it shows how I like to live in a very clam peaceful manner.
J Calderon P.1
Question
1. Earl lives next door to in Edna's basement.
2. Earl is a jukebox repair man.
Style
1. She says that he lives behind the dusty geraniums.
2.They help compare him to a cockroach because they are the ones who hang around in old dusty places.
3.Earl doesnt have a family unlike everyone else living on Mango street which has a family.
4. Earl is like his setting becasue he is lonely.
Personal Response
1. My room is white and has alot of red. My bed comforter is red whit white lining. Allover my room are heart things. My room reflects me becasue hearts are mostly thought of to be a symbol of love and im very lovable!
The Earl of Tennessee
period 1
SVielma
Questions
1. Earl is a man who lives next door in Edna's basement.
2. Earl is a jukebox repairman.
Style
1. She says that he has a southern accent, smokes fat cigars, and always wears a felt hat.
2.
3. Earl's lifestyle is different from the family lifestyle they have in mango street because he lives alone and is always working. He doesn't seem to have a family even though people say he is married with kids.
4. Earl seems to like quiet. He seems to like being alone most of the time and likes old things. He works a lot and isn't seen that often.
personal response
I guess you could say my room reflects who i am. It's usually where i spend a lot of my time. There are music related things all over like cd's, radio,cd player,posters, t-shirts, and my bass. There is also lots of pictures of freinds and family because they are important to me and because you cant always have a happy time and in pictures the good times are always there. Everything In my room has a memory or a story behind it.
Question
1. Earl is the neighbor and lives in Edna's basement.
2. Jukebox repairman.
Style
1. The words mold,dusty and damp.
2. Lots of buggs hide in the dark and makes good words for him.
3. He is not married and dosent have any kids so hes not like the rest.
4. The setting is kinda like dark and shady.
Personal Response
My room is clean, i like to be clean and it has a raido with i like to be loud.
KMolter Per1
Questions
1.Earl is the neighbor who lives in Edna's basement.
2.Earl is a jukebox repairman.
Style
1. The words Esperanza uses are Southern accent smokes fat cigars and wears felt hat winter or summer hot or cold don't matter a felt hat.
2.He lives an a ugly house and really doesn't do much just works every night.
3.He lives in a basement and he goes to work and comes home like an everyday routine just like the woman on mango street.
4.That there is alot of men on Mango Street that work and that just enjoy there life just a little bit. He doesn't like his life.
Personal Response
My room is very bright with colors and beachy theme it describes me to be open and free.
PERIOD 1
Questions
1) Earl is the man that lives next door in Edna's basement.
2) Earl is the jukebox repair man. yeehaw!
Style
1) Esperanza uses a Southern accent, smokes fat cigars and wears a felt hat, winter or summer, hot or cold.
2) He lives in an ugly house and just works.
3) He lives in a basement and comes home and goes to work daily just like the women on Mango St.
4) Earl is like his setting when they describe his home being smelly, just like him.
Personal Response
I would say my room is a mixture of Hollywood and Vegas style. It has cards all around the room and classic movie stars. It also describes my music taste and the things I like to collect like dice and classic cars. So VINTAGE, Heck yes!
PERIOD 1
Questions
1) Earl is the man who lives in Edna's basement.
2) Earl is the Jukebox Repairman. yeehaw!
Style
1) Esperanza describes his house by explaining how dirty it is. Like dusty, moldy and damp.
2) He lives in an ugly house and kind of in the dark, just like cockroaches.
3) Earl doesn't live liek any other on Mango Street. He has no family and is considered kind of a loner.
4) The setting in this chapter would probably be darkness and dirtyness. Earl is a loner and lives in the dark.
Personal Response
I would say my room is pretty much between Hollywood and Vegas style. I have classic movie stars and playing cards around the rim of my room. I also have my collections like dice and oldie cars. Oh and I can't forget my lovely band posters and pinup girls! My room describes me so much. Heck Yes!
“The Earl of Tennessee”
Answer the following questions in complete sentences.
Questions
1. Earl is frome Tensee. She is Edna tenent.
2. He fixes jukebox.
Style
1. A Easten Man.
2. That cockroaches leaves in the dark, the chapter is dark.
3. He does not have a wife.
4. He is a lone.
Personal Response
My room has a lot of posters.
ReekerD.Per.1
1.) Earl lives next door in a basement nearv Edna, his nieghbor.
2.)He is a jukebox repairer.
Style
1.)He speaks with a southern accent,dampness and moldy.
2.)He is very dirty and is always hiding behind something.
3.)He is part of Mango street because he's bringing all the bad stuff in the nieghborhood.
4.)The setting is like a middle age crisis where he doesn't know what he is going to do next because his life is so boring. He brings prostitutes to excite life.
P.S.
1.)My room is 12' by12' which means I like to have my space. There's a flat screen tv in it which I spend half of my day watching.
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