Bums In The Attic

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Bums in the attic.

Esperanza resolves to have a nice house someday but to never forget where she came from. When her family goes to the hills on sundays esperanza never wants to go. The house on mango street chapter 34 bums in the attic. On the weekends the family visits these houses and dreams about moving there.

It is a simple acknowledgment that esperanza s attic guests as opposed to her dinner table guests one could surmise are poor and yet deserve acceptance and welcome. However there are a fair amount of unnamed characters such as the bums in the attic and the friends of hers that ask about them. Esperanza really thinks that the people who live in those houses are stuck up and don t have to worry about anything but garbage. Her papa teases her for being stuck up and thinking herself too old to go on such family outings.

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. Bums in the attic esperanza wants a nice suburban house with a garden like the ones where her father works. 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. Bums in the attic study guide by ilonavion includes 19 questions covering vocabulary terms and more.