Mango Street-“Elenita, Cards, Palm, Water”
The House on Mango Street
Journal Guide for Chapter Twenty-Four
“Elenita, Cards, Palm, Water”
Answer the following questions in complete sentences.
Questions
1. Who is Elenita?
2. What does Elenita tell Esperanza?
3. What does Esperanza want to hear?
4. What three things does Elenita consult?
Quotes
Explain the significance of the following quotes.
My whole life on that kitchen table: past, present, future.
Ah, yes, a home in the heart. I see a home in the heart.
A new house, a house made of heart.
Themes
Esperanza is again searching for a home. What does she learn in this chapter? What could a “home in the heart” symbolize? What is the difference between Esperanza’s question and Elenita’s answer?
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. How does Esperanza describe Elenita’s home?
2. What role does mysticism play in the lives of people on Mango Street? What words let you know this?
Personal Response
What is the difference between a house and a home?
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Elenita, Cards, Palm, Water
Nensastegui_p1
1.Elenita is a fortune teller who charges $5 for reading your future.
2.Elenita tells Esperaza that she will go to a wedding soon.
3.Esperanza wants to hear if she will move to a new house.
4.Elenita consults 1)rub a cold egg across yor head id you have a hadache.2)twirl a chicken's foot over your head to forget an old romance.3)Sleep next to a holy candle to keep you asleep.
Quotes:
1. Her life was on the table because she Elenita was going to read the cards that had her past, future and present.
2.Elenita sees a home in the heart of Esperanza, because that is what Esperanza wants most of all.
3.A new home mwde up of a lot of love.
Themes:
Esperanza learns thatshe has to wait for things to happen. A home in the heart could symbolize a home full of love even if it is not the best house.
Style:
1. Esperanza describes Elenita's home as pretty, with pretty furniture.
Elenita, Cards, Palm, Water
PERIOD 1
Questions
1. Elenita is a fortune teller or a "witch". She has two children.
2. Elentia tells Esperanza "a home in the heart"
3. Esperanza wants to hear about a house, her house and if she will ever get a real one.
4. She sees jealousy, sorrow, and that home is is the heart.
Quotes
1. Elenita laid out the cards on the table, they showed her past, present, and future.
2. This is similar to "home is where the heart is". Same meaning.
3. Esperanza's house can be made of love, and warmth and comfort. You can make that anywhere.
Themes
"home in the heart" symbolizes that Esperanza can find her home inside herself.
Style
1. She tells us the house has red elaborate furniture covered in plastic. There are candles, and crosses, and pictures, and dirty dishes.
2. Exciting, mystical things don't happen on mango street. Any little thing out of the ordinary they treat like it's magic or a freak of nature.
Personal Response
A house is just a place you live in. A home is some place safe, filled with love and comfort.
1.Elenita is a Physcic.
2.Elenita tells Esperanza that she sees a home in the heart.
3.Esperanza wants to hear that things will be changing.
4.To rub a cold egg on your face if you have a head ache,to twirl a chickens foot over your head to forget an old romance and to sleep next to a holy candle to keep bad spirits away.
Quotes:
1. Everything about her life is just sitting on the table, her past present and futures secrets are all lying in front of her.
2.Elanita sees Mango St as Esperanzas home.
3.Esperanzas home may not be worth alot of money but alot of people with big hearts are surrounding her.
Themes:
1.Esperanza asks if shes getting a new house and the physcic tells her she already has a home.
Style:
1.Esperanza describes Elenita's home as messy.
2.People on Mango St are very mysterious and different, Esperanza tells us this through out the whole book.
Personal Response:
A house is the place you live like eat,sleep, and stay warm. But a home is some where you feel comfortable somewhere you can run to and feel safe and warm.
Roy Ortiz
Per.1
Elenita,Cards,Palms,Water
Questions:
1.She is a fortune teller.
2.There is a house in a heart.
3.she wants to hear about her future.
4.rub an egg if you have a headache,twirl a chicken's foot over your head to forget an old romance,
sleep next to a holy candle to help you sleep.
Quotes:
1.She will find out about her life.
2.There will be a true home for her.
3.A home you have love for.
Themes:
1.One is that a home in the heart and a home made of hearts.
style:
1.It has alot of candles and yoodoo things.
2.Everyone is in the backgrounds.
Personal Response:
1.A house is were you live and a home is were all you family is.
Elenita...
J Calderon P.1
Questions
1. She reads cards for Esperanza.
2. She tells her future.
3. She wants to hear that she will have a house.
4. Old romances, Cant sleep,and Fortune telling.
Quotes
1. Esperanza thinks that the cards hold her past,present and future.
2. Thats what Elenita tells her.
3. Esperanza doesn't understand what the cards are trying to tell her.
Themes
1. Esperanza wants to know she will find a better place to live but she may not realize that where she is is were she has to be.
Personal Response
1. House is anyones but a home is YOURS,it gives a sense of warmth,belonging,and security.
Questions
1. Elenita is a witch woman who Esperanza visits to find out about herself and her future.
2. Elenita tells Esperanza that there is jealousy and sorrow in her life.
3. Esperanza wants to hear that she has a bright future outside of Mango street and that she will leave it behind soon.
4. Elenita consults a glass of water, tarot cards and Esperanza's palm.
Quotes
The tarot cards represent the past present and future.
Esperanza's only real home or place she feels comfortable is in her own self and not in a house or physical place.
Esperanza's change of comfort zone is still in her heart but it is a new home feeling.
Themes
Esperanza learns that she has to make a home for herself if she ever wants to feel "at home" and that she will probably never feel at home in a realy house. Esperanza's questions are literal while Elenitas answers are symbolic.
Style
1. Esperanza describes Elenita's home as half magical half normal house.
2. The fact that Esperanza went to a palm reader in the first place shows how the people of Mango street are searching for an answer or purpose anywhere they might find it shows the mysticism in the people who live on Mango street.
Personal Response
A house is the place where you sleep and a home is the feeling comfortable in that space with the people you live with and how it is a safe place that you can always count on to be nice to you.
questions
1. She is a fortune teller. For a reading its five dollars.
2. She tells her that she sees a home in the heart.
3. She wants to hear about the house. Anything about a house.
4.she consults the cards,water, and palm.
5. She is showing the significance of the teller and what she thinks the teller can do.
5. SHe is telling esperanza home is where the heart is.
6. When she gets home she wil feel loved.
7. She learns home is in the heart.
8. Home is where the heart is.
9. Elenita tells her again that home is where the house is.
10. She describes her house as crowded with kids and fortune telling stuff.
11. That there is always another way.
Questions:
1.Elenita is a fortuneteller.
2.She tells Esperanza her fortune. She says that she will be going to a wedding soon, also she mentions a home in your heart.
3.Esperanza wants to hear about a house.
4.She consults that if you get a headache; rub a cold egg across your face. If there is an old romance you want to forget, take a chickens foot, tie it with a red string, spin it over your head three times, and then burn it. Also she says if bad spirits are keep waking you up, sleep next to a holy candle for seven days and on the eighth day spit.
Quotes:
1.She couldn't believe that Elenita told her what her past, present, and future was.
2.When Esperanza gets older she will have a lovely home.
3.When she gets the house, it will all be out of good will.
Style:
1.Esperanza describes Elenita's home as pretty, with all the red furniture and the colored T.V, but it isn't all that clean. Like the glasses, there was only one clean glass.
2.Mysticism has a big role on Mango Street. Mango St. isn't all that rich, but just because you live there doesn't mean you can't move up in your life. For ex. Esperanza's future is told as moving to a new house.
Personal Response:
The difference between a house and a home is that a house can be anyone’s, but a home is your own. Somewhere you share the love with your family.
Questions
1. She is a A fortune teller.
2. To not believe anything that she says.
3. She wants to her good news from the fortune teller.
4. 1- To rub a cold egg accross your face if you have a headache, 2- twirl a chicken's foot over your head to forget an old romance,
3- sleep next to a holy candle to help you sleep.
Quotes
1. That being a mother and taking care of the family is all on the kitchen table.
2. That there is no place like home.
3. That she has to get used to the new house its not like the other.
Themes
1. That no home will ever be the same like the one she used to live at.
Style
1. She say's that it is very beautiful and more better than hers.
Personal Response
A house is a place may b where you can go and not get love from but a home is where all the love is at.
G,Ney
Per1
1.A fortune teller who charges five bucks.
2.You will find a better home its in your heart.
3.Some thing about a new housae.
4.To rub cold eggs on your face swing a chicken and sleep next to aa holy candle.
Quotes
1.That shes been living in the same house for a long time.
2.That a home is were her heart is.
3.She feels alot o flove from her house.
Theme
1.She learned that home is in the heart.
2.Home is were the heart is.
3.She wanted to know any thhing about a new house because she want to move soon.
Style
1.Very messy and she had alot of kids.
2.Theres never a wronog path because you have many to choose from.
PR
The diffrences between a house and a home is in a home there's all the people that you love and in a house you just sleep their.
Questions:
1She is a fortune teller that goes to her house.
2that she will have a home in her heart
3If they will ever get the home that she has always wanted
4-rub a cold egg across your head if u get a headache
-sleep next to a holy candle to help u sleep
-twirl a old chikens foot to forget a old relationship
Quotes:
1she is really confused about her future and that she really dont think that she should believe the fortune teller
2that she is really nice person and that she will be a good person in the future.
3that in her future she is going to have house full of love.
Themes:
1that she cant have what she has always wanted but she will have a decent house in the future full of love.
Style:
1that it is very messy and very dirty.
2very strange and weird but very interesting and i really dont know wat describes them.
personal response:
1a home is were u are very comtrable to coming after a long day of work a place were u know is very comforting a house is just a place to sleep but not very comforting.
KMolter Per1
1. A fortune teller who makes you pay $5 a reading.
2. She tells Esperanza "ah yes, a home in the heart. I see a home in the heart".
3. Anything about a house, a new house.
4. Elenita consuls three things which are,
1-rub a cold egg accross your face if you have a headache.
2-twirl a chicken's foot over your head to forget an old romance.
3-sleep next to a holy candle to help you sleep.
Quotes
1. She's being kinda of sarcastic as if the lady is going to tell her whole life by the things on her table.
2.Home is Where the Heart Is.
3. Esperanza is going to feel a lot of love from home.
Themes
1. Esperanza learns that home is in the Heart.
2. Esperanza want's to know if she is ever going to get home and Elenita doesn't answer the question the way Esperanza wanted it to.
Style
1. Esperanza describes Elenita's home Messy, very messy with her kids and all of her fortune telling stuff.
2. There is always another path one can choose.
Personal Response
A house and a home are different places. A house is a physical place where people live. A home is a warm comfort place.
PERIOD 1
Questions
1) Elenita is a fortune teller who charges five dollars a reading.
2) She tells Esperanza that she won't move from Mango Street anytime soon, but will have a home in the heart.
3) Esperanza want's to hear that she's going to get a home soon.
4) Elenita consults these three things:
1-rub a cold egg accross your face if you have a headache
2-twirl a chicken's foot over your head to forget an old romance
3-sleep next to a holy candle to help you sleep
Quotes
1) She's being kind of sarcastic as if the lady is going to tell her whole life by the things on her table.
2) Esperanza may never get a home, but where she lives now is where her heart is at.
3) Her home is going to become more loving.
Themes
1) Esperanza learns that home is where the heart is. She may not always get what she wants but at least her heart is in it.
2) She wants to know if shes ever going to get a home and Elenita doesn't answer the question the way Esperanza wanted it to.
Style
1) Esperanza describes her home as baby proof, pretty much a big mess.
2) There is always another path that somebody can choose.
Personal Response
A house is something you come home and your hearts not in it. A home is somewhere your comfortable with, a more sensitive subject.
Questions
1. She is a witch woman who Esperanza goes to see.
2. She tells Esperanza she will have a home in her heart.
3. She consults about ways to cure certain things like headaches, forgetting old romances, and if spirits are keeping her awake.
Quotes
1. Esperanza is having her fortune told to her.
2. Elenita is telling Esperanza she will have a home in the heart.
3. Esperanza didn't know what she meant by a home in the heart.
Themes
1. A home in the heart means that Espranza will always have a home. Maybe not a physical one but one in her heart.
Style
1. Her furniture is looks like teddy bear fur and is covered in plastic.
2. Mysticism plays a large role in mango st. because esperanza goes to a fortune teller to see if she'll have a home.
Personal Response
A house is just a house thats not yours and a Home is yours and you can go there when you need to.
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