Sally (2024)

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What does Esperanza realize when she tries to save Sally from making a bad decision or being exploited by the boys in the monkey garden? ›

Answer. B, When Esperanza tries to save Sally from making a bad decision or being exploited by the boys in "The Monkey Garden," she realizes that Sally is more assertive than she thought, and when Sally sticks up for herself, the boys respect her.

Expert-Verified Answer. In the vignette "Sally" from the novel "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros, Esperanza feels sorry for Sally for various reasons. However, the statement that is NOT a reason for Esperanza's sympathy is: "Sally doesn't have makeup or nice shoes."

In "What Sally Said," Sally uses writing as a way to express her emotions and cope with her difficult family situation. Similarly, in "Minerva Writes Poems," Minerva writes poetry as a way to process her emotions and cope with the oppression she faces living in a dictatorship.

In Linoleum Roses, Sally is actually known to be the girl who marries a much older man who gives her money but still controls her life. We see here that option D actually describes Sally's new life best. She is still controlled and mistreated.

She even experienced some physical and sexual abuse from a neighborhood kid named Tito. Tito would push Esperanza into doing things she did not feel comfortable with doing. One day, he stole Sally's keys and pressured her into kissing him and his friends.

Eventually, this discomfort becomes extreme, and Sally ends up putting Esperanza in physical danger. Traumatized by her assault and heartbroken that Sally's negligence was a factor in that assault, Esperanza's understanding of her friend – and of women's sexuality – changes dramatically.

As a result of lacking a proper female role model to guide her, Sally becomes trapped in the same cycle as that of her female elders. At first, Esperanza is jealous of Sally's beauty and the attention she attracts from boys at school. However, this jealousy subsides after becoming more familiar with Sally.

Esperanza's love for her friend Sally translates into a violent need to protect Sally from the outside world, and in this way Esperanza resembles Sally's father and Sally's husband. Esperanza wants to keep the boys away from Sally, just as the men do.

Esperanza blames Sally for not returning after she goes off with an older boy, but the accusation goes deeper than that. Esperanza is angry that girls perpetuate the myth that sex goes hand in hand with love.

Sally's father is afraid that Sally will run away like her sisters did and bring more shame to the family. He also may be afraid that she will not get involved with a boy.

Who broke Mamacita's heart? ›

The final blow for Mamacita is that her child, whom she has brought with her from Mexico, learns English. It breaks her heart that even he insists upon speaking this ugly language that she cannot understand.

Mamacita feels like her heart is breaking when her toddler son starts singing along in English to a Pepsi commercial on TV. She has resisted to adjusting to living in the US partially by not learning English, and she probably feels like her son will leave her behind if he learns to speak English.

He thinks that, because she's female, she's going to shame the family by running away with a man. Sally comes to stay with Esperanza's family one day, to get away from her dad. But that night her father comes to the door with tears in his eyes and begs Sally to come home.

Sally's father fears that Sally will run away. Sally goes home with her abusive father because he cries and begs for her to come back, promising it's the last time he'll hit her.

One time, Sally asks to come and stay with Esperanza and her family. She brings over a bag of clothes and food from her mother, but that night her father knocks on the door, crying and apologizing.

Esperanza does not blame her attackers for her rape, but instead is angry at Sally and the other women in her life. She lashes out at what she knows, as she is not strong enough to attack the world of oppressive men yet.

How did Esperanza feel when Sally went into the garden with the boys? What did she do? Esperanza felt angry. She went to Tito's house to tell his mother Sally had to kiss the boys because they stole Sally's keys and kissing them was the only way she could get the keys back.

Esperanza thinks Sally is a beautiful dreamer who just wants to love and be loved, and she wishes Sally could go somewhere far away, somewhere she wouldn't have to worry about her father and cruel gossip. Sally does not seem trapped by her sexuality, but by her abusive father.

By the end of the story, Esperanza comes to understand that she is part of Mango Street and that although she is strong enough to escape, she must work hard to become a writer and tell the stories of the women around her who cannot leave.