One character in this novel claims that "Madame Butterfly was a fool" because you "got to take care all your own," while cooking oatmeal and playing a record of the opera borrowed from the library.
One character in this novel claims that "Madame Butterfly was a fool" because you "got to take care all your own," while cooking oatmeal and playing a record of the opera borrowed from the library. Another character Alicia wakes early and spots mice in the kitchen, but her father says the mice don't exist. An old black storeowner won't turn the lights on unless rich people enter his store and won't sell a music box to the protagonist's sister Nenny. The protagonist says her name has "too many letters" and wants to change it to "Zeze the X," even though her friends Lucy and Rachel don't laugh at her name. In a characteristic scene, she puts on high heels only to be sexually harassed by a bum on the corner, and later gets sexually assaulted at a carnival. FTP, name this work about the coming-of-age of Esperanza Cordero, who longs to escape the title location, a book written by Sandra Cisneros.
One character in this novel claims that "Madame Butterfly was a fool" because you "got to take care all your own," while cooking oatmeal and playing a record of the opera borrowed from the library.
The House on Mango Street