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33 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
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An Old Woman’s Recollections
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Eulalia Pérez
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The Missions
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Richard Rodríguez
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The Homeland, Aztlán
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Gloria Anzaldúa
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To Live in the Borderlands Means you
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Gloria Anzaldúa
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I Am Joaquín
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Rodolph “Corky” González
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Pocho
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José Antonio Villarreal
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…And the Earth Did Not Devour Him
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Tomás Rivera
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Talking with mi gente: Chicano English
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Carmen Fought
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Viva Spanglish
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Jessica Dysart
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How to Tame a Wild Tongue
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Gloria Anzaldúa
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Aria
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Richard Rodríguez
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The House on Mango Street
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Sandra Cisneros
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Mrs. Cordero
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Esperanza's mom
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Sally
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beautiful girl who is abused and sexually harassed by a gang
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Lucy and Rachel
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sisters who say they will be Esperanza's friend forever and will give her a third of a bike for 5 dollars
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Nenny
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Esperanza's younger sister
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Cathy
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gringa who will be esperanzas friend til tuesday when she moves
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esperanzas dream house
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3 toilets, real stairs, spacious
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Meme
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aka Juan; a ditz
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Marin
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louie's cousin who is waiting for a guy to come sweep her up and giver her a good life
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Louie's male cousin
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represents the hoodlum pachuco
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Alicia
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scared of mice and her father; a victim of incest
she has "replaced the mother in his mind" |
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Darius
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thinks clouds are god
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how does Esperanza comfort her father?
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she holds him
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Elenita
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fortune tellar who says "Home will be in your heart"
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Gerardo
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anonymous wetback who dies and whose death touches Marin
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Rosa Varga
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husband left her and has too many kids to control
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Ruthie
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Edna's daughter who lives at home and acts like a child, probably beaten by husband
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Earl
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"many wives"
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Sire
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boy who likes Esperanza
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mammacita/mammasota
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big beautiful woman with little feet who mourns for her Mexican home and refuses to assimilate
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Rafael
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woman confined to house bc she's too pretty to go out. she asks for coconut and papaya juice but wants to dance
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Minerva
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woman who is abused by her husband but keeps taking him back. She writes poems.
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