Mango Street-“Sire”
The House on Mango Street
Journal Guide for Chapter Twenty-Eight
“Sire”
Answer the following questions in complete sentences.
Questions
1. Why is Esperanza afraid of Sire? What do her parents say about him?
2. Who is Sire’s girlfriend? Why is Esperanza curious about what she does with Sire?
3. Why does her curiosity about Sire make her feel as if “everything is holding its breath inside me?”
Quotes
Explain the significance of the following quotes.
Everything is holding its breath inside me. Everything is waiting to explode like Christmas. I want to be all new and shiny. I want to sit out bad at night, a boy around my neck and the wind under my skirt.
Not this way, every evening talking to the trees, leaning out my window, imagining what I can’t see.
Themes
A major theme of the novel is continued in this chapter. What do you think that theme is? Why? What textual proof is there to support your idea?
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. This chapter discusses Esperanza’s heightened sexual curiosity. What images and words support this idea?
2. Several types of girls are mentioned in this chapter. What types? What words express the feelings of the community about the types of girls?
Personal Response
Esperanza wonders what it will be like one day to sit outside with a boy. This for her will be a way of knowing that she is growing up. What are the milestones in your life that let you know that you are growing up?
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Questions
1. Esperanza is afraid of Sire because she isn't used to people staring at her and her parents tell her he is a punk and to stay away from him.
2.Lois is Sire's girlfriend and is curious about what she does with him because she is beginning to mature and wonder about the opposite sex.
3.Esperanza's curiosity makes her feel that way because she knows something is going to happen but she isn't sure what that is.
Quotes
Esperanza wants to experience what other girls her age do or dream about.
Esperanza is beginning to tire of her old passtimes and wants something real.
Themes
The theme of growing up is huge in this chapter because at one point in every girls life they become curious about boys.
Style
1."I want to be all new and shiny. I want to sit out bad at night, a boy around my neck and the wind under my skirt," definitley supports the idea.
2.Immature, "slutty", and Esperanza being the innocent one, are the types of girls mentioned in the chapter, and the way they are described shows that the community is weary of almost any type of girl.
Personal Response
I've been through a few milestones that I would consider a sure sign of growing up already, but one that I know will be a big deal is getting my lisence, because I know when I have that and my own car, no one can stop me from going where I want to.
Questions
1. Her parents say he is a punk. She is afraid of sire because he is a bully.
2. Lois, she is curious because she is always buying stuff for him.
3.
Because she has a crush on sire.
Quotes
1. She has a secret crush on Sire.
2. She wants to know what it's like to hang out with sire but can't.
Themes
1. That most the people in Mango street are nobody's and won't amount to anyting.
Style
1.She wants a boy around her neck and a breeze under her skirt.
2. The nice type and the trouble maker type.
Personal Response
I dont keep track of that kinda stuff.
VCalderon
p.1
1.Esperanza was aafraid of sire because he was a ganster.Esperanza's parents would say that sire was a bad guy and that was in bad things around Mango St.
2.Loie is sire girlfriend.She is curise because she wouldn't know what a guy like sire would do with a girl.
3.She feels that way because she is just curiose.
Quotes
1.That means that she can't wait to have a boyfriend and to experience what other girls do.
2.I guess experting to have someone to flirt with.
Theme
That she can't wait to grow up.Or simply she really has a big crush on sire.But there is not much she can do.
Style
1.A boy hled me once so hard,I swaer I felt the grip and weight of his arms but it was a dream.
2.The trampy the seriouse ones.That there is pure crazy girls.
Personal Response
1. The way I thin the way I reat people and My state of mind.
PERIOD 1
Questions
1) Esperanza is afraid of sire because her parents say that he is a punk and to they tell her not to speak to him.
2) Sire's girlfriend is tiny and pretty and smells like baby's skin. Esperanza is curious because her mother told her she is the kind of girl who goes into the alley and can't tie her own shoe.
3) The curiousity scares Esparanza so she doesn't want to breathe.
Quotes
1) She's scared so she doesn't want to breathe.
2) She wants to be free. She wants to start a new life.
3) Esperanza doesn't want to live life the way she does. She wonders what the things are in life that she doesn't know.
Themes
1) The theme is that Esperanza want's to grow up too fast and she wants to live a new life.
Style
1) She wonders what sire and his girlfriend does. She also wants a boyfriend for herself.
2) The types of girls in this chapter would be the one's from the alley. The one's that can't tie their shoes.
Personal Response
The way I felt like i was growing up was when i actually cared about what I was wearing to school. When I started to wear make-up and wanting to wear those high heeled shoes.
J calderon P.1
Questions
1. Shes afraid of sire becasue he stares at her when she walks by. Her parents say that he is a punk and she shouldn't talk to him.
2. Sire's girlfriend is lois. She is curious about what she does with sire becasue she always sees him with her and she is interested to know what they do.
3. It makes her feel that way because she can't stand not to know.
Quotes
1. She can't wait to be in lois's place and have a boyfriend, beacsue she wants to experience something new.
2. She stares out her window wondering what they are doing.
Themes
1. The facts that the women in Mango street aren't very independent, the line that shwos this is "She doesn't know how to tie her shoes" and he ties her shoes for her.
Style
1. When she says "I want to sit out bad at night, a boy around my neck and the wind under my skirt." its shows her curiosity.
2. There is the types of girls which go into alleys, and the ones who don't.
Personal Response
1. The milestones in my life are when i can actually talk to my mom and not argue and when i learn to understand where she coming from as a mother.
Roy Ortiz
Per1
sire
Questions:
1.Esperanza is afraid of him because he is a boy that stays out late and probably gets into trouble.
2.Sires girlfriend is lois. She wants to have a boyfriend too.
3.Everything always hides from her, she never knows what anyone does.
Quotes:
1.She wants to be born again and be a bad girl to see how life is.
2.She dosen't want to live her life looking a trees.
Themes:
1.She wants someone to take her away and live a new life and live happy.
Style:
1.She askes questions that if he holds her like this and kisses lie this.
2.There are bad girls and poor ones and non educated ones too
Personal response:
1.I don't kow it just happened or maybe puberty.
Sire
period 1
SVielma
Questions
1. Esperanza is afraid of him because he always stares at her. Her parents said that he is a punk and that she shouln't talk to him.
2. Sire's girlfriend is Lois. She is curious because she acts like a little girl and she wants to know what it is like to be with a boy.
3. Esperanza feels that way because she likes Sire and she wanrts something to happen.
Quotes
1. She wants to know what it's like to have a boyfriend and she wants to know what all the other girls are doing.
2. She is getting sick of doing the same things all the time. She wants something that will make her feel goood about herself.
Themes
1. Esperanza wants to grow up too fast. She wants to have a boy she can be with. She becomes very curious what having a boyfriend feels like. She wants to grow up and try new things.
Styles
1. Eaperanza says that she wants to sit out bad at night with a boy around her neck.
2. There are many types of girls on mango street. There are smart girls, there are innocent, and some that are just passing their lives away but they all are looking for a way out. They are all unhappy and will or would do anything to get out.
Personal Response
I knew that i was growing up when my parents started trusting me more and when my responsibilities got greater.
KMolter Per1
1.Esperanza was afraid of sire because he was a ganster.Esperanza's parents would say that sire was a bad guy and that was in bad things around Mango Street.
2.Lois is sire's girlfriend.She is curious because she wouldn't know what a guy like sire would do with a girl.
3.She feels that way because she is just curious and scared of what will happen.
Quotes
1) She's scared so she doesn't want to breathe.
2) She wants to be free. She wants to start a new life.
3) Esperanza doesn't want to live life the way she does. She wonders what the things are in life that she doesn't know.
Themes
1) The theme is that Esperanza want's to grow up too fast and she wants to live a new life.
Style
1) She wonders what sire and his girlfriend does. She also wants a boyfriend for herself.
2) The types of girls in this chapter would be the one's from the alley. The one's that can't tie their shoes.
Personal Response
The way I felt like i was growing up was when i got into high school. I felt as if it was a sense of growing up and maturing
Nesastegui_p1
Sire
1.Esperanza is afraid of Sire because he is a bully.
2.Sire's girlfriend's name is Lois. Esperanza wonders what sire and Lois do because she doesn't know what really hapens in a girlfriend/boyfriend relashionship.
3.Esperanza feels this way because deep inside of her she wants to experiment what it must feel like to kiss someone, hold theid hand, and much more like what Sire and Lois do.
Quotes:
1.Esperanza wants to feel like someone different, someone who acts like an adult and has a boyfriend to do everything a boyfriend and girlfriend would do.
2.Esperanza would actually like to do what she imagines rather than day dreaming of what could be.
Style:
1.They way she asks herself what it must be like, and what does it feel to kiss someone else make a sense of her sexual curiosity.
2.The girls who are always out late says Esperanza's mother that those girls go into the alleys in the end.
Personal Resonse:
The milestones in my life that let me know that i am growing up is when my parents treat more like an adult rather that a child.
“Sire”
Answer the following questions in complete sentences.
Questions
1. That Sire is not a good boy.
2. Lois is Sire girlfriend. Esperanza wants to be like Lois. She wants to be held like Lois get hold by Sire,
3. She like Sire.
Quotes
Esperanza like Sire.
She does not like her life as boring..
Themes
A major theme of the novel is continued in this chapter. What do you
think that theme is? Why? What textual proof is there to support your
idea?
Style
1. Like how she wants to be held.
2. That they are good and bad.
SteeleD Per 4
1. She is afraid of him because he watched her pass every day.
2. Lois, she finds it strange how she wears no shoes and wears lots of make-up
3. Her excitment
Quotes
1. She wants to experience what other girls her age thing about.
2. She is beginning to grow up
THEMES
1. Growing up seems to be a mayjor part of this novel
STYLE
1. "The wind up my skirt"
2. Prostitutes I beleive
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