Beautiful cruel does esperanza reconcile the images of herself as ugly p.
Characterization of ezperanza in bums in the attic.
Her guests will think rats are squeaking in the attic but esperanza will happily tell them it s bums.
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.
She hopes to live in a big house on a hill one day and keep bums in her attic instead of rats.
Esperanza resolves to have a nice house someday but to never forget where she came from.
Esperanza has stopped going with her family.
On the weekends the family visits these houses and dreams about moving there.
Bums in the attic esperanza wants a nice suburban house with a garden like the ones where her father works.
Bums in the attic why does esperanza wish to house bums in her attic.
88 and beautiful and cruel and what does each self image imply about her future.
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.
She too would like to live in one of those houses but she is tired of looking at what she cannot have.
Hopes and dreams 8.
Esperanza says that once she has the house of her dreams she will always remember where she came from.
Esperanza does not show ignorance by making this decision she uses her own opinions not stereotypes created by other people.
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.