On the weekends the family visits these houses and dreams about moving there.
Characterization of ezperanza in bums in the attic.
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.
Characters esperanza as esperanza matures during the year that makes up the house on mango street she experiences a series of awakenings the most important being a sexual awakening.
Esperanza says that once she has the house of her dreams she will always remember where she came from.
Hopes and dreams 8.
Esperanza has stopped going with her family.
88 and beautiful and cruel and what does each self image imply about her future.
It will be a home a place of belonging and acceptance.
At the beginning of the novel esperanza is not quite ready to emerge from the asexuality of childhood.
The poor staying in esperanza s attic will not be rats as her dinner guests mistake them for but bums yet that word has no derogatory connotations readers sense for esperanza.
Esperanza does not show ignorance by making this decision she uses her own opinions not stereotypes created by other people.
This vignette shows knowledge because esperanza says that she would offer the passing bums her attic to stay in because she knows what it s like to be without a home.
Esperanza really thinks that the people who live in those houses are stuck up and don t have to worry about anything but garbage.
Esperanza resolves to have a nice house someday but to never forget where she came from.
Bums in the attic esperanza wants a nice suburban house with a garden like the ones where her father works.
She will allow the bums a place in her attic because she knows how it is to be without a house source s house on mango street.
Bums in the attic why does esperanza wish to house bums in her attic.
She too would like to live in one of those houses but she is tired of looking at what she cannot have.