Her guests will think rats are squeaking in the attic but esperanza will happily tell them it s bums.
House on mango street bums in the attic.
J calderon p 1 bums in the attic 1.
These fantasies are the flip side to the feelings of shame provoked by the run down housing that the characters actually live in.
Bums in the attic esperanza wants a nice suburban house with a garden like the ones where her father works.
But for now here is another chapter one of my favorites bums in the attic excerpt from the house on mango street by sandra.
Bums in the attic.
Esperanazas father s job is landscaping.
She will keep bums because she knows how it is to be without a house.
She will allow the bums a place in her attic because she knows how it is to be without a house.
Me being over ambitious decided to read the house on mango street and write my paper about mexican assimilation in the united states.
Esperanza says that once she has the house of her dreams she will always remember where she came from.
And esperanza promises to let bums stay in her attic when she has a nice house of her own.
Esperanza wants a house on a hill because people that have houses on a hill forget about the homeless and esperanza will make sure she supports them.
Espernazas dreams of having her own house and keeping bums in the attic.
I named this blog after a chapter in it called four skinny trees perhaps someday i ll post that chapter.
Her papa teases her for being stuck up and thinking herself too old to go on such family outings.
I find myself re reading this book at least once a year and my favorite vignette is called bums in the attic i have re typed it below.
Multi cultural lit project.
She doesn t go out with ehr family because she doesn t want to see things she can t have.
The house on mango street is my favorite book in the world.
On the weekends the family visits these houses and dreams about moving there.
When bums pass by she will invite them in and let them stay in her attic because she knows what it s like to not have a house.