House on Mango Street
Across
- 3. the fruit of the tropical american (carica papaya) tree
- 4. mother
- 6. a woman's head scarf folded traingularly and worn tied under the chin
- 7. to cause to collapse
- 9. extremely savage; fierce
- 11. a type of dance
- 14. espiritues the spirits
- 15. a clasp for holding a woman's or girl's hair in place
- 18. to resound with a sharp vibrating sound
- 19. lacking vitality; listless and weak
- 20. any of carious chiefly tropical shrubs or tress having large,showy, variously colored flowers
- 21. a column
Down
- 1. friends ( female friends of her mother )
- 2. courageous in the face of pain, danger, or adversity.
- 5. grandfather
- 8. a tall plant native to the middle east and widely cultivated for its showy clusters of very large, variously colored flowers
- 10. ugly shoes
- 11. tattered or worn-out
- 12. marshmallow
- 13. muerto dead
- 16. a derogatory term for an ammigrant
- 17. roses a strong vivid purplish red (referring to her dress)