Mango Street Lit Device Puzzle AG

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Across
  1. 4. Pg 76-78. Loss of culture, and an immigrant’s challenge to adapt.
  2. 8. Pg 41, 42. These are symbols of how while women are seen as nice, it is for the wrong reasons, and sometimes, they are repulsed by this, and reject the notion.
  3. 9. Pg 31, 32. She sees mice, and is the stereotype of a girl whose mother died too early, and had to pick up the household chores by herself.
  4. 11. Pg 55. The creepy old man stereotype does this to Esperanza.
  5. 12. Pg 71. He hires “wives”. I think we all know what this is a metaphor for.
  6. 13. Pg 73. He makes her feel like Christmas.
  7. 15. Pg 25. What the cousin drives to escape the Mango Street lifestyle. The Cadillac is freedom.
  8. 17. Pg 30. One of the Vargas kids. She explodes down to earth like a falling star, and dies.
  9. 18. Pg 82, 92. She seems cool at school, but is first hinted that she has problems at home. She gets beat by her father later on.
  10. 19. Pg 65, 66. He is very unknown, and dies very quickly, right after we are introduced to him. He follows the stereotype of the undocumented, but hardworking migrant.
  11. 20. Pg 84, 85. Married early and young, but still writes poems just like Esperanza.
Down
  1. 1. Pg 86. She says she will let them live in her attic, as a symbol of how she has matured and thought of giving back to the community.
  2. 2. Pg 59. Aunt Lupe is a symbol of decay and deterioration.
  3. 3. Pg 88. The ball and chain is a metaphor for this. Esperanza sees it as forcefully binding the woman to the man.
  4. 5. Pg 21. Him and his dog are compared to each other, clumsy and wild.
  5. 6. Pg 33, 34. The wise fool. He is usually fooling around, but sometimes, he says something profound.
  6. 7. Pg 39. The grandma’s feet were as lovely as these.
  7. 10. Pg 9. She feels like one of these, chained to an anchor. Reference to a famous old short film.
  8. 14. Pg 79, 80. Locked into her lifestyle, and her house. Women face struggles in Mango Street.
  9. 16. Pg 64. The fortune-teller says she sees one of these in Esperanza’s heart, and it foreshadows when Esperanza starts accepting Mango Street as one of these.