House on Mango Street Characters

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Across
  1. 2. Esperanza’s first friend in the neighborhood
  2. 4. A young girl Esperanza befriends the same year she moves to Mango Street
  3. 10. Esperanza’s first crush
  4. 11. The overweight Mexican wife of another neighbor.
  5. 13. Esperanza’s friendly uncle, who gets her to dance at her cousin’s baptism in “Chanclas.”
  6. 14. The married woman in the neighborhood who is most similar to Esperanza
  7. 17. A neighborhood boy who relates to girls in violent and sexual ways
  8. 18. the novel’s heroine and narrator whos 12 years old
  9. 20. A neighbor who works nights and tries to sleep during the day.
  10. 21. one of esperanza’s best friends
  11. 24. one of Esperanza’s younger brother
  12. 25. A childish grown-up neighbor who enjoys playing with Esperanza and her friends
Down
  1. 1. A neighborhood woman whose husband locks her in their apartment because he is afraid she’ll run off
  2. 3. esperanza’s friend who attends a local university
  3. 5. another Esperanza’s younger brother
  4. 6. A witch woman Esperanza visits to have her fortune told
  5. 7. The eldest sibling in a Puerto Rican family that lives in the basement of the Ortiz house
  6. 8. Esperanza’s mother
  7. 9. Esperanza’s father
  8. 12. Esperanza’s aunt
  9. 15. A Mexican man Marin meets at a dance
  10. 16. Ortiz The new resident of Cathy’s house
  11. 19. Esperanza’s little sister
  12. 22. another of esperanza's best friends
  13. 23. A young woman from Puerto Rico who lives with her cousin’s family